Susanne Pacher is the publisher of a website called Travel and Tran siti ons (http://www.travelandtransitions.com). Travel and Transitions deals with unconventional travel and is chock full of advice, tips, real life travel experiences, interviews with travellers and travel experts, insights and reflections, cross-cultural issues, contests and many other features. You will also find stories about life and the transitions that we face as we go through our own personal life-long journeys.
City Of Ottawa In anticipation of my upcoming trip to Ottawa next weekend I have started to do some research and contacted Ottawa Tourism. Ottawa, as Canada's capital, is one of Canada's most popular travel destinations and it has a great variety destinations, activities and events to offer.... Similar Editorial : West Ottawa by Mohammad Sarfaraz Khan. | Source : Canada Destinations
Hello From Sicily - Language Studies With the images from my beautiful excursion around Mount Etna still etched freshly in my mind, I got ready for another day of Italian studies at the Babilonia Language School. After a relaxing breakfast on the scenic terrace of the Hotel Villa Nettuno, admiring the gorgeous view over the Ionian Sea, I was prepared for another day of school..Punctually at 9:30 am our lesson started and our language...... Similar Editorial : Hello From Sicily by Susanne Pacher. | Source : Arabic Lessons
The Vineyards Of Southwestern Styria, Austria On a beautiful warm summer day and after a nice filling breakfast we got going early yesterday to embark on our Sunday excursion to the south-western part of Styria. I wasn't particularly well-rested after a full day yesterday that included a hike, a local driving tour and a birthday party, but I was keen to explore the area west of Leibnitz, Styria's foremost winegrowing region together with my...... Similar Editorial : Retirement Vineyards by Gary Ashton. | Source : White Baseball Cap
Hello From Austria - Classical Music, Hiking At 9:30 am I went to visit Klaudia, one of my best friends from high school, at her parent's house. Our other school mate Doris was already there and it was great to see both of them again, more than 23 years after we graduated from high school. After the initial hugs and kisses and how-are-yous we started walking onto the local hill, the Weizberg. Our stroll took us through the local cemetery...... Similar Editorial : Austria Living by Susanne Pacher. | Source : White Baseball Cap
An Orlando Jewel After I had received a general overview of the history of the Orlando area in the Orange County Regional History Center, I wanted to delve a little deeper into the social history of the Orlando area, and the Wells Built Museum of African American History and Culture was going to give me a more in-depth look into Orlando's African American history.To this day this area west of I-4 is primarily...... Similar Editorial : Australias Undiscovered Jewel by Keith Palmer. | Source : European Trip
St. Augustine On our way home from Orlando, a little more than an hour into our 20+ hour road trip back to Toronto, we stopped in St. Augustine, "the nation's oldest city", just north of Jacksonville - indeed the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States, having been founded by the Spanish in 1565.St. Augustin's founder, Don Pedro Menendez, came ashore on September 8, 1565, and chose...... Source : Alabama Travel
Austria Living - Austria Information My brother and sister-in-law had taken the next day off and we were planning an excursion further afield: our destination was a mountain peak called Mangart in Slovenia, located about a three-hour drive from my home town. The beauty of Central Europe is its diversity of landscapes and its small distances, and in just a few hours of driving through the Austrian province of Carinthia we arrived in...... Similar Editorial : Solden in Austria by Jasmine Stone. | Source : Austria Tour
Austria: A Hike Through The Raabklamm I continued my drive into the centre of Graz and parked my vehicle in the underground garage next to the Graz Opera - at more than 20 Euros not exactly an inexpensive way to see the city, but affordable parking is difficult to find in downtown Graz. My first stop was the Graz Opera House, a neo-baroque building that was opened in 1899 and damaged during an air strike in World War II. A few steps...... Similar Editorial : St Anton in Austria by Jasmine Stone. | Source : Austria Tour
Excursion To Slovenia And Italy After yesterday's exciting outing to Graz we were planning an even bigger outing today: an excursion to the so-called "Drei-Länderecke", an area where Austria, Italy and Slovenia come together. So we left early in the morning to drive from my home province of Styria along the A2 Highway to the Austrian province of Carinthia. The drive across the mountains of Western Styria is extremely scenic...... Similar Editorial : Fishing Excursion by natisha. | Source : Barcelona Tapas
Travel To Austria Finally, after the rather rainy day yesterday I opened my curtains to an absolutely gorgeous day today. The lush green Alpine foothills and mountains surrounding Weiz were competing with the brilliant blue sky to catch my attention and naturally I had to get out on the road and explore. I started with a visit to the large pilgrimage church in my home town of Weiz. It is assumed that a church, more...... Similar Editorial : Solden in Austria by Jasmine Stone. | Source : Barcelona
Guide To Austria After a lovely lunch at my friend Andrea's place, her whole family and I embarked on another adventure: a guided tour of the "Katerloch", a limestone cave that features the largest number of dripstones in all of Austria. Following a beautiful 15 minute drive through serene rolling hills surrounding the hamlet of Dürntal we arrived at the entrance of the cave.A group of about 20 or 25 people...... Similar Editorial : St Anton in Austria by Jasmine Stone. | Source : Barcelona
Austria Information - Information About Austria The story of the immigrant - the recurring tale of people with two identities, their lingering attachment to their birth country and their love for their new homes... For many people immigrating to a new country can be an almost schizophrenic experience.My experience is a little unique: I left my home country of Austria at the tender age of 20 and will soon be celebrating my 21st anniversary of...... Similar Editorial : St Anton in Austria by Jasmine Stone. | Source : Barcelona
A Hike Through The Raabklamm Inspired from my cave adventure yesterday, I met my friends Andrea and Herbert early this morning to go on a hike through the Raabklamm (Raab River Gorge), which is surrounded by limestone mountains that hold more than 700 caves, including the famous Katerloch and the Grasshöhle, two publicly accessible caves and major tourist attractions in the Weiz area.Again, we drove through the rolling...... Similar Editorial : The Loans Rate Hike by SimonDuffy. | Source : Live Aus Berlin
Access Nova Scotia Halifax Now it was time for a quick lunch and then my next stop at Pier 21, Canadas immigration museum and a National Historic Site, and the entry point form more than a million New Canadians between 1928 a...... Similar Editorial : Access Nova Scotia Halifax by Susanne Pacher. | Source : Nova Scotia
C O Stand For Many of the Canadian Olympic athletes who did so well at the recent 2006 Torino Olympics actually train at Canada Olympic Park, and this years success of Canadian Olympic athletes bodes well for the ...... Similar Editorial : British Airways Credit Card by Eric Wasselman. | Source : Where Not To Travel To