Heavy storms followed a weekend of record breaking temperatures throughout Austria on Sunday evening. Large parts of the country were affected as thunder storms, heavy hail and rain swept through Austria. In Tirol large numbers of trees fell onto roads due to heavy winds, power lines were brought down leaving some households without power. Salzburg […]
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A man who had had a severe allergic reaction to a wasp after being stung whilst out for a walk around a lake was rescued by rowing boat. The 51-year-old was walking around the Hierzmannstausee reservoir in Voitsberg, Styria with his wife and dog when he was stung by a wasp after he bent over […]
The Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner has lived in Arbon, Switzerland, for a year. Despite a long waiting list, he has already received a place to park his boat. Nothing is impossible for Felix Baumgartner (43): he was the first human to break the sound barrier when he jumped from the stratosphere. Rita Fischer of […]
By Kathryn Quinn Looking out of the window you may think of anything other than summer, but it is rapidly approaching and that means one thing – Summer holidays! With rising costs of flights and petrol, the Euro crisis and troubles in many foreign lands a holiday closer to home may be the best alternative. […]
The manslaughter case in Austria over the death of a British soldier drowned during a rafting accident has ended with the raft guide accused of negligence being acquitted. Private John Lomas, of the Royal Logistics Corps, was with comrades in Tirol when his inflatable raft boat capsized on June 21. Three rafts, carrying a total […]
A British soldier has been killed in a rafting accident in Austria. Austrian police said that the 22-year-old British man had come with a group of other members of the British Army from Germany to take part in the rafting at Landeck in Tirol. Austria has seen torrential rain in recent days and experts are […]
Das Boot shows the way to the hotel
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An Austrian hotel has fixed this yacht by artist Erwin Wurm to the roof of ithe building with the front melting so that it points down to the front entrance. Hotel Daniel management in the Austrian capital Vienna refused to say how much they spent for the project which had to get special permission to […]
An Austrian-flagged sailing boat has been seized in southern Italy when coastal guards discovered more than two dozen refugees on board. Twenty-five asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq were found on the vessel which sailed under Austrian flag. The refugees were taken to a local centre for asylum seekers, officials in the city of […]
Austrian yacht stranded in Croatia
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The yacht of two Austrian holidaymakers got stranded at the shores of a Croatian island, it has been reported. The Croatian Times writes that the reason for the accident of the 15-metre long boat is still a matter of investigations. The yacht’s skipper, a Croat, was fined 600 Euros for the incident at Hvar, according […]
GTI fanatics shipwrecked
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German GTI fans had a lucky escape after capsizing in a motorboat on a lake in Austria.The group of four men in the southern province of Carinthia to visit the annual Volkswagen (VW) Golf GTI meeting made it to the shore after their boat sank at Wörther Lake (Wörther See) yesterday evening (Tues).The […]