BlogTalk mapping

Falter

Vienna's famous and popular weekly magzine. Falter is unrivaled when it comes to Austrian politics, cultural events and city life portraits.

madrid

a nice park

Ramien

very nice Pan-Asian restaurant, discotheque in the basement

Start here...

This is where the 100m dash starts. If you want to race, email me rwild@1-900-870-6235.com

There is a cool statue at this streetcorner

CyberCafe

CyberCafe - pretty much the only one easily found downtown. About 4 Euros an hour - but get the hour / one coffee combo. Good access speeds, mutiple 'zones'.
-- Stephen

CyberCafe

CyberCafe - pretty much the only one easily found downtown. About 4 Euros an hour - but get the hour / one coffee combo. Good access speeds, mutiple 'zones'.
-- Stephen

MAS!

The best Caipirinha in town. Happy hour 6-8 pm.

Bodega

Spanish tiles & wine, live music almost every night. Try the tapas! See www.bodega.at

here be dragons

Burger King

one of the two central burger kings in town.

My Home

Sorry for the entry. I could not resist the temptation and withot knowing any of Vienna I just guessed, this might be a nice place to live at. Anybody correct that if you know better.

Burggarten

a very popular spot for picknicks (preferrably on sunny days)

Rent a Balcony

Need to relax after shopping in Mariahilf? Pay 1 Euro and a balcony is yours for 30 minutes. www.muenzbalkon.com

Vienna Bike

Rent a bike (the first hour is free) to get around Vienna. www.viennabike.at

Studentenwohnheim Haus Salbzurg

Studentenheim mit familiärer Atmosphäre Web: www.studentenwohnheim.at

Pharmacy

cough drops and aspirin

Print Shop

If you need a last minute print out of your presentation notes, you can print them from cdrom (or the web if they're nice)

Meinl am Graben

Gourmet Store and First Class Restaurant of Our Sponsor Julius Meinl (founded in 1862)

Kunstwerft

new gallery/project space. art to steal!

Birdland

Vienna´s new Jazzclub owned by Joe "Mercy Mercy" Zawinul
http://www.birdland.at/

Stuwerstrasse Apartment

Elmine and Ton, BlogTalk participants, brought and installed their own open Hotspot at Stuwerstrasse 35 (just of Prater), for the duration of their stay in Vienna (July 2nd-July 10th). Hotspot is called interdependent2.

Hofburg

Beautiful city landscape. Look at the museums and town hall from here.

Breakfast Club

Get one of the finest breakfasts here

BF Club

Hotel Post

Central yet relatively cheap hotel

Hotel Post

U1 Nestroyplatz

University of Vienna

Visit the university online.

Cafe-Restaurant

Praterstrasse 19

Novs

Praterstrasse 25

Kochauf

Excellent Styrian apple juice, wine, apples. Arnold Schwarzeneggers takes those each day.

Sushi Bulgogi

Praterstrasse 26

Pizzeria Venezia

Praterstrasse 22

Wirt im Eck

Praterstrasse 20

Criminal Museum

Bizarre place.

http://www.kriminalmuseum.at/

Knallgrau Office

The office of Knallgrau New Media Solutions, Hoster of www.twoday.net. We are happy to welcome every interested blogger to chat with us or to check out our cafe latte, moccachino, etc...
Lindengasse 56/5. find exakt directions at www.knallgrau.at.

Kaisermuhlen

Remember BlogTalk 2003? It was here.

Fountain

Nice Fountain and interesting WW2-Memorial. Cool off here on hot days.

Paternoster

Checkout the Paternoster-elevator in this university building.

Siebensternbrau

Affordable pub with 6 kinds of tasty homebrewed beer and hearty food. Very nice beer garden.

Vego India

Cheap vegetarian Indian restaurant. Good food, generous portions.

Cafe Latte

Nice cafe, WLAN hotspot, big brunch buffet on Sunday mornings

British Bookshop

Decent selection of English-language books

Barurania

Right at the venue on the ground floor. Open from 10 am to 11pm

Haus des Meeres

Huge, slightly spooky aquarium built into a disused anti-aircraft gun tower from World War II

Saigon

Yummy Vietnamese food

Eissalon Hoher Markt

Excellent ice cream, much smaller than Zanoni's and not as crowded

Gasthaus Wild

Very good restaurant with large outside seating area on the quaintly shaped Radetzkyplatz

Shakespeare & Company

Small, quaint English bookshop

Gerngross

The last surviving big department store in Vienna

St Marx station

Alight here to see Mozart's grave

St Marx Cemetery

Mozart was buried here in this beautifully preserved Biedermeier cemetery

Artis Cinema

English language cinema

Burg Cinema

English language cinema

Haydn Cinema

English language cinema

Amadeus

Extensive selection of books, newspapers, magazines and stationery

Morawa

Largest selection of Austrian and international newspapers and magazines. Also a pretty good bookshop.

Schnitzelwirt

Largest and most famous schnitzels in Vienna

Sporthaus Rih

Everything for you bicycle.

Plachutta

Vienna's premier beef restaurant

BlogWalk venue

Postgasse 6

Riesenrad (Giant Ferris Wheel)

Feel like Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten in "The Third Man" as you experience a great view over the city

Tramway museum

Apparently the largest collection of vintage trams in the world. Open Saturday and Sunday only

Austrian National Gallery

Come here for the really cool Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka paintings.

Wien Mitte station

Trains from the airport arrive here

Museum of Applied Arts (MAK)

Vienna's arts & crafts counterpart to the V&A - much smaller, but certainly one of the coolest museums in the city. Also houses temporary exhibitions. Free entry on Saturdays.

Museum of Fine Arts

The art collection of the Habsburgs: Dutch, Flemish, Italian and German masterpieces in a lush neo-Baroque interior.

Museum of Natural History

Stuffed bears and the like.

Leopold Museum

Schiele, Kokoschka, Gerstl, fin-de-siecle Vienna paintings - but the more interesting stuff is in the Belvedere Palace

Kunsthalle

Temporary exhibitions of contemporary art

Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK)

Austrian Action Art, Fluxus, Pop Art, temporary exhibitions

Kettenbrueckengasse underground station

The station is really here, not further east, as wrongly indicated in this map.

National Library

Baroque reading room of the National Library. A must-see for book fetishists.

Palmenhaus

Very trendy bar and restaurant inside a fin-de-siecle greenhouse.

Flea Market

Every Saturday from 6am to 5pm. Lots of nice and useless stuff.

Kent

Turkish restaurant. Best kebabs in town. Open almost around the clock

University Campus

During the summer, it's one big, giant beer garden.

Bombay

Hottest Chicken Madras in town

Pension Wild

Cheap, small hotel

Billy's Bones Irish Pub

Drink beer and watch football until the end of days

Schweizerhaus

Largest beer garden in Vienna. Best beer in Vienna. Hugest roast pig's trotters in Vienna.

Closed

This underground station right in front of Hotel Atlas was closed last year. Don't expect it to be there.

Rathausplatz

On the City Hall Square, classical music concert films are shown every evening (free entry). Lots of stuff to eat there, too.

Closed

This underground station right in front of Hotel Atlas was closed last year. It's no longer there.

Hotel Fuerstenhof

Cheap, basic hotel.

Hotel Kugel

Small, cheap, family-run hotel.

Zur Stadt Krems

Nice small restaurant. Come here for Knallgrau event on Monday night.

Krieau

Open air screening of Euro 2004 finals on Sunday

Flex

Open air screening of Euro 2004 finals on Sunday

Flex

Open air screening of Euro 2004 finals

Restaurant Una

Good place

Una

Cafe Le Monde

Free WiFi. You can sit outside. Right across the University of Vienna

Cafe Drechsler

Here you can get a very early breakfast starting at 3 am!

Zanoni

Biggest ice-cream parlor in town

Mashu

Best (kosher) Falafel in town

Babette's

Books and small meals for Cooks. In a lively neighborhood.

here

H&M

In case you lost your last shirt or underwear. You will something cheap there.

Fontanive Ice Cream

Small, overly old interior, little snappy service but really excellent ice. I can recommend melone and wal-nut.

Leupold "Kupferdachl"

Free WLAN you can even have an iBook at the counter.

Xocolat

If you are a chocolate junkie. Xocolat is you place.

Xocolat

Spittelberg

Typical Viennese neighborhood from the 1700s - former red-light district. After a rebuild lots of pubs, restaurants, galleries, antiques and stuff. Outdoor dining/sipping possibly.

Spittelbergsite (German only)

Contor/Blue Plate

Good places to have Cajun and US-American food and/or Italian/Spanish/Austrian wine and small tapas.

Contor

here

Supermarket

Self-catering

Cafe Prueckl

Good place to have a coffee and chat thoug not cheap

Café Prückl

Pan Asia

Praterstrasse 20

Kebab

McDonalds

Noname

Biberstraße 20

Cafe Ministerium

Pizzeria Noli Trattoria

Stubenring 4

Augarten

Baroque park not far away form the Urania.

Augarten

PCware

Just in case you need an USB-stick etc.. Niedermeyer is close.

here

Rose Garden

Beautiful Roses.

FranziskanerPlatz

A really nice place with some Cafés and an awesome atmosphere

Westbahnhof

Most trains from Germany arrive here.

Uniqua Pub

The new tower of this insurance company is supposed to have a nice dining area. Not sure if it's already open but very close to the Urania. Just across the bridge.

Naschmarkt

Vienna's best market. Lots of fresh food and else. Beware on Saturday it's so packed you can't even move.

U3

Station "Stubentor", close to the Urania

U1/U3

Underground station for U1 and U3, at the very heart of Vienna

expedit

Another good place to eat (Italian), very trendy.
Expedit

Soupkultur

Nice little restaurant with salads and soups. Park nearby, so sitting outside is possible when it's warm.

Wifi Hotspot in MuseumsQuartier

there's a free hotspot available in the main court-yard of the MuseumsQuartier
see http://quintessenz.at/cgi-bin/index?id=000100002627

MAK Cafe

A nice place to eat and drink actually part of the Musuem of Applied Arts, closed on Mondays.

http://www.mak.at/service/f_service_makcafe.htm

museumsquartier

free, anonymous hotspot of "quintessenz.at", a privacy initiative. all open-air, with 2-3 street cafés to chose from and large blue somthings where you can sit/lay on and surf. not for bad wheather.

ronahi

café, restaurant. great and cheap arab and kurd food. free hotspot. international press (wired, mode diplomatique, etc.) corner schottenfeldgasse/apollogasse.

Hightea

café - restaurant. free hotspot. hundreds of different teas, good coffee. wlan livingroom of vienna. no garden, closed on evenings. www.hightea.at