Traveling: July 2025

Friday, 25 July 2025

Electric Love Festival 2025

Electric Love Festival

Thursday - July 3rd 2025 to Saturday - July 5th 2025

Every year an electronic dance music festival is taking place near Salzburg at the Salzburg Ring racetrack. Last year Claudia and I have been to the Electric Love Festival for the first time, but only for one evening. We enjoyed it a lot and so we decided to get a ticket for all three evenings. Each evening we took the car tto the festival and spent a couple of hours listening to music, getting drinks and having some food or taking a ride with the ferris wheel. We had a fantastic time and can't wait for next year's festival.

Electric Love Festival

Friday, 18 July 2025

Vienna Spring 2025 - Part 1

Vienna

Friday - June 20th 2025

After we returned from our bike tour, we still had a couple of days left of our holiday and so we decided to spend the weekend in Austria's capital city. Along the way we stopped at McDonald's for a late breakfast and around noon we arrived at our hotel. We stayed at the Austria Trend Hotel Doppio, our prefered hotel in Vienna, becuase it's conveniently located near the highway and the inner city is just a short tram ride away. Once we checked in and dropped off our luggage in our room, we headed to Gleis//Garten, a food hall with its own brewery located in an old railway building. There we had late lunch and of course we had to try some beers from the local brewery.

Late Breakfast

Our Room

Gleis//Garten

Lunch

Gleis//Garten

In the afternoon we spent some time shopping at Kärntner Strasse in the inner city. For dinner we had a reservation at a vegetarian Vietnamese restaurant, but first we enjoyed a couple of drinks at Sky Bar overlooking St. Stephan's Cathedral. Then it was time for our reservation and we were on our way to Vevi Restaurant. We ate there already last year and it was as delicious as we remembered. Afterwards we just strolled around Vienna and got ice cream before returning to the hotel.

Sky Bar

Dinner

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Vienna Spring 2025 - Part 2

Vienna

Saturday - June 21st 2025

Our second day started with breakfast at the hotel and then we took the tram into the city. Our first stop was Starbucks followed by Superfood Deli, where we got some iced coffees and smoothies to be prepared for a day of shopping at Mariahilfer Straße. For lunch we stopped at Xu's Cooking, a vegetarian Chinese buffet restaurant, before returning to the hotel to relax a bit, since it got pretty warm.

Starbucks

Mariahilfer Strasse

Smoothies

Xu's Cooking

In the afternoon we headed to Prater, one of the oldest amusement parks in the world. There a new rollercoaster had just opened and of course I had to try it. Wiener Lopping was a lot of fun, although it could have been a little bit longer. Then we just took a walk through the fun fair before taking the metro back into the inner city. There we tried an awful vegetarian burger at Hab's Burger, but luckily we stopped at the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner a couple of minutes later. We had a couple of drinks before ordering nachos to share. Later on the way back to the hotel we got ice cream and back in our rooms we called it a day and watched TV.

Wiener Looping

Vienna Prater

Hab's Burger

Hard Rock Cafe

Ice Cream

St. Stephen's Cathedral

Vienna State Opera

Vienna

Returning Home

Sunday - June 22nd 2025

Today we slept in and once we got up, we had breakfast. Then we checked out and hit the road towards Salzburg. Back home we had a quick lunch and enjoyed a quiet last day of our holiday.

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