Lakeside towns and villages should reassess the risk from tsunami as global warming leads to a melting of the permafrost “glue” that holds many of the peaks together. Large parts of the Alpine region that lie higher than 2,500 meters are held together by the soil which is permanently frozen. Until recently only the surface […]
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No Fugging chance for name change
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Austrians considering renaming their village from Fucking to Fugging have been told to think again – because the name is already taken. Villagers at Fucking in Upper Austria voted yesterday to change the name to Fugging. But then came the news that there used to be a second village with the name Fucking in Austria […]
Heuriger open for business again
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Famous as the big wheel, Schönbrunn Palace or the Vienna Boys Choir are the real Viennese Heuriger or wine taverns which sell their own year’s wine and small cold and hot dishes in Vienna, the only capital city in Europe that has vineyards within its city borders. Heurig means “this year’s” as an adjective, so […]