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Expired Ilford HP5 around Europe and the UK
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A visit to an ancient Celtic salt mine in the Salzkammergut
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A visit to the archaeological museum in Hallein, home of the Celts
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Pastel water, salt mining and Ancient Celts
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Adrian Ghenie exhibition at the Albertina in Vienna
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Yoshitomo Nara exhibition at the Albertina Modern in Vienna
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Palm trees, money and Neo-Nazis with nunchucks
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At home with Arnie
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There’s also an archaeological museum in the grounds of the castle. Before you went in though, you had to pay…
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A fancy suburb of Graz with a castle
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A Baroque palace with peacocks and Dutch paintings
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Cross-processed Fuji Sensia in Vienna
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The frozen tundra of northern Austria
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A short and sweet one
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The Architekturzentrum Wien is small, but has some really good displays. If you get a Museums Quarter pass it’s included,…
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Recently I dug out an old pocket camera from about 15 years ago and got a new battery for it.…
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There’s also lots of forest around Bad Zell. Bad Zell Forest
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The hills weren’t alive with the sound of music so much as with elderly people on healthful walks, armed with…
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Recently I dug out an old pocket camera from about 15 years ago and got a new battery for it.…
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Bad Zell is a spa town in the Mühlviertel, whose claim to fame is that the water is full of…
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Wolfsthal is a small village on the Austrian-Slovakian border. In the Iron Curtain days it was a real backwater, now…
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Forget Hallstatt, I think Gmunden is the best lake town in Austria. It’s also a real place where people live…
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Hainburg is located in between Vienna and Bratislava, slightly closer to the Slovakian capital. Bratislava sits on the hills to…
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Murau îs the bigger town near St Egidi. St Egidi is pretty normal despite being so remote, Murau is weird.…
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St Egidi is really remote. You have to get off the normal train, and switch to this mountain tram thing…
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Bischofshofen is a scenic mountain town in the Pongau region of Land Salzburg. The Catholic school I was visiting there…
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St Georgen am Walde (St George in the Woods) is an extremely obscure village of 500 people in the Mühlviertel…
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Wels is famous in Austria for being boring. It’s much more attractive than nearby Traun, with a pretty riverside and…
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I’ve made clear how much I loathe Hallstatt in my other post. It starts at the ferry. To access the…
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You may be surprised to find out that Hallstatt is one of my most hated places in Austria. This probably…
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Linz itself is not a particularly touristy place. I often call it the Brum of Austria. Aside from the small…
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Here is the less glamourous side of working in Austria. Not everywhere is picturesque. Traun on the outskirts of Linz…
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I was in Vienna on Mayday a few years ago. The Prater funfair is supposed to be the place to…
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Swarovski World is really, really disappointing. I’d wanted to go there for years, but never quite made it. It’s located…
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Schwaz in Tyrol was the former centre of silver mining in Austria, and is now the main town for the…
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I am aliiiiiive
