Here are two of Austria's hottest destinations - but which one's for you?
Look, I get it - Mozart is awesome and The Sound of Music is one of my favourite things. How can you not love a musical about a lovestruck nun, a Camilla-esque baroness and kids who Do-Re-Mi their way to humiliating Nazis? But arguing you have to go to Salzburg to appreciate Wolfgang and Julie is like saying Vienna is the only place you can have a schnitzel. Or tafelspitz, milchrahmstrudel, palatschinken, knodel or sachertorte, if you're really Austria hungry. If you can only appreciate the Von Trapps high on a hill with a lonely goatherd, or worse, if your schnitty has to have a geographical imperative, we're all stuffed like a frankfurter, or wurst.
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Here are two of Austria's hottest destinations - but which one's for you?
Look, I get it - Mozart is awesome and The Sound of Music is one of my favourite things. How can you not love a musical about a lovestruck nun, a Camilla-esque baroness and kids who Do-Re-Mi their way to humiliating Nazis? But arguing you have to go to Salzburg to appreciate Wolfgang and Julie is like saying Vienna is the only place you can have a schnitzel. Or tafelspitz, milchrahmstrudel, palatschinken, knodel or sachertorte, if you're really Austria hungry. If you can only appreciate the Von Trapps high on a hill with a lonely goatherd, or worse, if your schnitty has to have a geographical imperative, we're all stuffed like a frankfurter, or wurst.
