Posted in A hot tip on Dec 17th, 2008
When the mountain inn was in flames on 28th October this year, hardly anyone wanted to pitch their hopes too high that the hotel and its bar and inn ‘Schnapshans’ would be a destination to stop for refreshment in this winter season. But not only did ‘Schnapshans’ Herwig Schiefer (www.schnapshans.at) believe in this, he [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2008
Just in time before heaven opened its gates, we changed locations and continued with our activities in probably one of the most beautiful film studios in the world. After all, the first contributions for our Zell am See-Kaprun TV programme had to be shot in time and in an authentic setting, of course. As soon [...]
Posted in A hot tip on Nov 25th, 2008
Until only recently the fairground between the Ferry Porsche Congress Center and our pedestrian zone seemed rather bleak. But (fortunately) this has considerably changed since last week: Zell’s Christmas market has finally opened! In the evenings, when all those tiny lights on the booths come alive, it emanates a special feeling of cosiness. Right [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 11th, 2008
With a broad smile and slightly sore muscles I am back at work. Thanks to the weblog of Zell am See-Kaprun I can grab the opportunity to recall the last weekend and think back of my skiing holiday spent right here at my very doorstep.
The white start event on Kitzsteinhorn has definitely been a worthy [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2008
… was the expression Franz used when taking about the shooting of the ‘Bauernprinzessin’ (The Farmer Princess) in Zell am See. Now that the team of ‘Der Bergdoktor‘ has visited us once again to shoot another episode of the popular TV series here, I have to admit that his words proved to be dead on [...]
Posted in A hot tip on Oct 10th, 2008
We did it! Since the beginning of October our winter homepage is online again! Once again, the region tempts visitors to go skiing or ice skating instead of hiking and swimming. It seems St Peter was so impressed that he granted us quite a bit of fresh snowfall on Kitzsteinhorn. Did you expect him to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 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: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2008
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’ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2008
… 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 [...]
