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Monthly Archive for July, 2008

She left Austria 70 years ago. Together with her family she immigrated to the USA to escape the National Socialist regime. But she has always held fast to her love for music. Until 1956 she travelled the entire globe on her concert tours. Now, Maria von Trapp has embarked on a different kind of journey: [...]

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A hot tip: hiking with Schmidolin

For our little guests Zell am See-Kaprun has a very special offer. Every Monday at 9.45 am the station of Areitbahn I in Schüttdorf is the meeting point for a walking tour with the most entertaining guides of the region. And the holiday dragon of Schmittenhöhe Schmidolin waits there, too, to invite all his friends [...]

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In the Wednesday’s podcast about Zell’s Summer Nights Festival we like to reveal some secrets. Today our team around Uschi Lubenik is at the bathhouse and explains how to prepare ‘Pinzgauer Bladl’n’, the typical flat unleavened bread of the region; why Magic Marcus behaves like he does in the current podcast; what Karl Halbmayr from [...]

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Let’s go to Zell’s town festival – and who’ll be the ‘lucky’ devil who gets to drive the car? No one! From now on, there is a very attractive alternative to go to the Summer Nights’ Festival of Zell am See. Every Wednesday the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn railway company puts on the special ‘Town Festival Express’ [...]

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… this week ORF2 shot an episode for its magazine ‘Summertime’ in Zell am See-Kaprun. The subject of this year’s summer tour is ‘Austria on lakes and rivers’ and of course we cannot be absent in this exquisite round. Charming TV host Isabell Scharl and her team presented the region in a unique way. This [...]

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Dramatic conflicts, passionate relationships and the wildly romantic landscape of the province of Tyrol: what else does it take to lure TV viewers in front of the screen to watch the evening programmes of Austrian ORF and German ZDF?
We’ll definitely keep an eye on physician Dr. Burgner during the up-coming episodes of the series since [...]

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Walking on Schmittenhöhe

In the times of lift and cable cars facilities things have become a lot easier! The Schmittenhöhebahn cable car takes you to the summit at 2,000 metres of altitude in a mere seven minute! There you can enjoy the picturesque nature of the Alpine world. Follow the trail to Sonnenalm like I did, marvel at [...]

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