Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or Wedding Day – the so-called “50plus Hotels” have a special offer for those who want to celebrate or give a wonderful present to their beloved. Guests are spoiled in many ways. The Hotel Erzherzog Johann in Bad Aussee, Styria, focuses on wedding anniversaries: partners who were married for 25 or […]
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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. […]
A British teacher has died on the first day of a week-long school ski trip after falling off a four meter high stone wall after a trip to a pub and landing on his head. Austrian police said Jonathan Taylor, 44, an IT teacher at the Christ the King School in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, had been […]
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 […]
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By Alessia De Silva It’s going to be raining a lot over the next few days according to the weatherman, and although you might be one of those that wants to avoid too much water it’s actually a good time to take to the water. Sightseeing under an umbrella and in the wind is never […]
Cross-country skier hits signpost
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A cross-country skier suffered serious injuries in a freak accident yesterday (Sun).The Czech tourist was cross-country skiing towards the valley in Ramsau, Styria, when he crashed against a signpost after being thrown from the marked slope as he got faster and faster.The 45-year-old suffered an open fracture to his lower right leg. He was helicoptered […]
A British newspaper has identified the young man who survived a flight from Vienna to London by crouching in a wheel bay earlier this month.The Mail on Sunday (MoS) reported yesterday (Sun) that the 20-year-old stowaway who fell off the jumbo jet after it touched down at London-Heathrow was Andrei Culea from Cochirleni in eastern […]
Mountain rescue authorities have reprimanded a hiker for wearing Crocs shoes after she had to be rescued by helicopter.Officials in Tyrol said today (Fri) the German tourist slipped and fell during a trip at the Karwendel mountain region in near Achenkirch in Schwaz district.Rescuers had to transfer the 54-year-old to a local hospital in a […]