Bike trips by Lake Neusiedl

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Culture

Austrian Federal Railways offers bikers a chance to see the countryside. The bicycle trail by the Lake Neusiedl is one of the most traversed in Austria. Now, the Austrian Federal Railways have come up with a plan to make the journey from Vienna to the lake easier for bikers – as well as more environmentally […]

Austria beats Turkey as heatwave lingers on

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Lifestyle

Austrian towns registered higher temperatures than Turkish holiday hotspots around midday today (Mon), according to Austrian meteorologists.Experts at Vienna’s Centre for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) said weather stations in Neusiedl am See at Lake Neusiedl, Burgenland, and St. Andrä im Lavanttal in Carinthia registered 35 degrees centigrade.They said this was more than temperatures reached in […]

Kite surfer hurled against caravan

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General News

A kite surfer suffered serious injuries as a wind gust threw him against a caravan today (Weds).The 44-year-old man from Vienna was transported to the city’s Meidling Emergency Clinic after the dramatic accident at Lake Neusiedl in the eastern province of Burgenland.Local officials said the man sustained broken ribs and possibly spinal injuries as he […]

Canola oil boat engine bid as Lake Neusiedl season starts

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Business

Burgenland tourism bosses hope for more stays at the province’s Lake Neusiedl this summer after lakeside overnights in January and February soared by 25 per cent year on year.Tourism shipping transfer services at the lake – which is the second-largest steppe lake in Central Europe – started this morning (Fri), and lakeside towns have invested […]

Debtor torches his own home

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A man in debt in Tadten in Burgenland’s Neusiedl am See district set his own house on fire early Saturday morning, police said.The man, 35, used flammable liquid to torch the house in four different places.Police said the man had given contradictory accounts of what had supposedly happened and finally confessed to having started the […]