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Vienna

2008-04-07T14:22:41Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Classic Sightseeing ==

'''Hofburg''' [http://www.hofburg.com/cms/front_content.php|a peek inside] and [http://www.hofburg-wien.at/|the museum's hp]

Classic. lol. The Hofburg was one of the residencies of Austrian emperors and is nowadays among others still the government building directly in the town centre. Inside Hofburg youll also find the "Spanische Hofreitschule" (the Lippizaner horses thing), the "Nationalbibliothek" (national library), the "Völkerkundemuseum" (ethnology museum) and so on. In front of Hofburg, there is a huge square called Heldenplatz where you can chill out or watch people playing frisbee, football and some other weird games. Unfortunately, the grass on other places is always greener, so id suggest you visit some parks for your chillout sessions instead.

[[Image:Hofburg_innenhof.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Hofburg_nationalbibliothek.jpg|200px]]

'''Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Palace)''' [http://www.schoenbrunn.at/]

Schönbrunn was the summer residency of Austrias regents and is maybe the most famous sightseeing area in Vienna. Its a bit outside of the town centre, but you can go there very quickly by metro (U4, Schönbrunn). The palace itself is...well, a palace like Versailles and so on. And just like Versailles it also has a beautiful and huge backyard (of course not as huge as Louis XIV's residency...but still quite big) with a bar/restaurant ("Gloriette", which was a part of the palace) in it, from where you have a great view over Vienna because its located on a hill.

[[Image:Schoenbrunn1.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_konzert.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_gloriette.jpg|200px]]

'''Churches / Cathedrals'''

Of course you can find a lot of nice churches and/or cathedrals in Vienna. The most famous and maybe most impressives are

'''Stephansdom (St. Stephens Cathedral)''' in the heart of Vienna (metro U1/U3 "Stephansplatz"; or simply by foot no matter where you are in the 1st district). Vienna's tallest cathedral. Its quite nice on the inside, and, if you want to, you can also ascend its two towers (northern tower, the smaller one, contains the "Bummerin" i.e. the church bell; southern tower is a popular lookout due to its 137metres of height).

'''Karlskirche''' is not far from towncenter at Karlsplatz (metro U1,U2,U4 or several bus/tram lines station "Karlsplatz"). Since its a baroque church, its full of Bling Bling :D

'''Votivkirche''' is also nearly a part of the first district and is next to Uni. Afaik it was built after some Emperor survived an attempted murder.

[[Image:Stephansdom.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Karlskirche.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Votivkirche.JPG|100px]]

== Great Places & Chillout Areas ==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

[[Image:Museumsquartier.jpg|200px]]

'''Altes AKH'''

This area formerly was a part of Vienna's general hospital and is now hosting some of Vienna University's Institutes as well as some restaurants and beer gardens. Although this area is near some busy roads (and not far from town centre), its very calm inside (as calm as beer gardens can be :P ) since its an inner yard. I love getting drunk in this place in summer. Eight tentacles up :D

[[Image:Altes_AKH.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Altes_akh_plan.jpg|150px]]

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/] (extremely recommended for its sound system)

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)

Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)

Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''CLUB CAMERA'''[http://www.camera-club.at/]

is a small basement club near Mariahilferstraße (in the 6th/7th district of vienna, starting at MQ). Back in the 90s loads of drug dealers were selling their stuff over there, thats why the owners decided to put a camera right over the door so that they could see when the police came in order to maka a raid. Nowadays the club is quite decent, loads of peeps in the age of 18-35 there, very common price scheme.

'''Programme:''' Open Thu/Fri/Sat starting either at 10:00pm or 11:00pm. Musical spectrum reaches from minimal to disco-house, you gotta check the homepage for detailed information.

'''DONAU'''[http://donau.schraeg.org/] (extremely recommended for its flair)

is a mixture of bar and very small club. AFAIK there is some sort of dancefloor (depending on the dj-set and the actual location of the tables).
The interior decoration is awesome: The whole bar is one small pillared hall (i guess from the fin-de-siècle period) with pictures (comics and stuff, changing every day) projected onto the otherwise ugly panels on the wall (pictures on the hp). Loads of students/scene people from the age of 23-40 id say in there; and usually an awesome amount of fit girls...

'''Programme:''' Open Mon-Thu 8pm-4am, Fri/Sat 8pm-6am, Sun 8pm-2am. The dj-sets should be mainly eclectic stuff, containing everything from reggae over deephouse to nujazz and techno. See the hp for further information.

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

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Vienna

2008-04-07T13:55:17Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Classic Sightseeing ==

'''Hofburg''' [http://www.hofburg.com/cms/front_content.php|a peek inside] and [http://www.hofburg-wien.at/|the museum's hp]

Classic. lol. The Hofburg was one of the residencies of Austrian emperors and is nowadays among others still the government building directly in the town centre. Inside Hofburg youll also find the "Spanische Hofreitschule" (the Lippizaner horses thing), the "Nationalbibliothek" (national library), the "Völkerkundemuseum" (ethnology museum) and so on. In front of Hofburg, there is a huge square called Heldenplatz where you can chill out or watch people playing frisbee, football and some other weird games. Unfortunately, the grass on other places is always greener, so id suggest you visit some parks for your chillout sessions instead.

[[Image:Hofburg_innenhof.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Hofburg_nationalbibliothek.jpg|200px]]

'''Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Palace)''' [http://www.schoenbrunn.at/]

Schönbrunn was the summer residency of Austrias regents and is maybe the most famous sightseeing area in Vienna. Its a bit outside of the town centre, but you can go there very quickly by metro (U4, Schönbrunn). The palace itself is...well, a palace like Versailles and so on. And just like Versailles it also has a beautiful and huge backyard (of course not as huge as Louis XIV's residency...but still quite big) with a bar/restaurant ("Gloriette", which was a part of the palace) in it, from where you have a great view over Vienna because its located on a hill.

[[Image:Schoenbrunn1.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_konzert.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_gloriette.jpg|200px]]

'''Churches / Cathedrals'''

Of course you can find a lot of nice churches and/or cathedrals in Vienna. The most famous and maybe most impressives are

'''Stephansdom (St. Stephens Cathedral)''' in the heart of Vienna (metro U1/U3 "Stephansplatz"; or simply by foot no matter where you are in the 1st district). Vienna's tallest cathedral. Its quite nice on the inside, and, if you want to, you can also ascend its two towers (northern tower, the smaller one, contains the "Bummerin" i.e. the church bell; southern tower is a popular lookout due to its 137metres of height).

'''Karlskirche''' is not far from towncenter at Karlsplatz (metro U1,U2,U4 or several bus/tram lines station "Karlsplatz"). Since its a baroque church, its full of Bling Bling :D

'''Votivkirche''' is also nearly a part of the first district and is next to Uni. Afaik it was built after some Emperor survived an attempted murder.

[[Image:Stephansdom.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Karlskirche.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Votivkirche.JPG|100px]]

== Great Places & Chillout Areas ==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

[[Image:Museumsquartier.jpg|200px]]

'''Altes AKH'''

This area formerly was a part of Vienna's general hospital and is now hosting some of Vienna University's Institutes as well as some restaurants and beer gardens. Although this area is near some busy roads (and not far from town centre), its very calm inside (as calm as beer gardens can be :P ) since its an inner yard. I love getting drunk in this place in summer. Eight tentacles up :D

[[Image:Altes_AKH.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Altes_akh_plan.jpg|150px]]

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/]

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)

Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)

Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''CLUB CAMERA'''[http://www.camera-club.at/]

is a small basement club near Mariahilferstraße (in the 6th/7th district of vienna, starting at MQ). Back in the 90s loads of drug dealers were selling their stuff over there, thats why the owners decided to put a camera right over the door so that they could see when the police came in order to maka a raid. Nowadays the club is quite decent, loads of peeps in the age of 18-35 there, very common price scheme.

'''Programme:''' Open Thu/Fri/Sat starting either at 10:00pm or 11:00pm. Musical spectrum reaches from minimal to disco-house, you gotta check the homepage for detailed information.

'''Donau'''

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

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Vienna

2008-01-03T19:11:09Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Classic Sightseeing ==

'''Hofburg''' [http://www.hofburg.com/cms/front_content.php|a peek inside] and [http://www.hofburg-wien.at/|the museum's hp]

Classic. lol. The Hofburg was one of the residencies of Austrian emperors and is nowadays among others still the government building directly in the town centre. Inside Hofburg youll also find the "Spanische Hofreitschule" (the Lippizaner horses thing), the "Nationalbibliothek" (national library), the "Völkerkundemuseum" (ethnology museum) and so on. In front of Hofburg, there is a huge square called Heldenplatz where you can chill out or watch people playing frisbee, football and some other weird games. Unfortunately, the grass on other places is always greener, so id suggest you visit some parks for your chillout sessions instead.

[[Image:Hofburg_innenhof.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Hofburg_nationalbibliothek.jpg|200px]]

'''Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Palace)''' [http://www.schoenbrunn.at/]

Schönbrunn was the summer residency of Austrias regents and is maybe the most famous sightseeing area in Vienna. Its a bit outside of the town centre, but you can go there very quickly by metro (U4, Schönbrunn). The palace itself is...well, a palace like Versailles and so on. And just like Versailles it also has a beautiful and huge backyard (of course not as huge as Louis XIV's residency...but still quite big) with a bar/restaurant ("Gloriette", which was a part of the palace) in it, from where you have a great view over Vienna because its located on a hill.

[[Image:Schoenbrunn1.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_konzert.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_gloriette.jpg|200px]]

'''Churches / Cathedrals'''

Of course you can find a lot of nice churches and/or cathedrals in Vienna. The most famous and maybe most impressives are

'''Stephansdom (St. Stephens Cathedral)''' in the heart of Vienna (metro U1/U3 "Stephansplatz"; or simply by foot no matter where you are in the 1st district). Vienna's tallest cathedral. Its quite nice on the inside, and, if you want to, you can also ascend its two towers (northern tower, the smaller one, contains the "Bummerin" i.e. the church bell; southern tower is a popular lookout due to its 137metres of height).

'''Karlskirche''' is not far from towncenter at Karlsplatz (metro U1,U2,U4 or several bus/tram lines station "Karlsplatz"). Since its a baroque church, its full of Bling Bling :D

'''Votivkirche''' is also nearly a part of the first district and is next to Uni. Afaik it was built after some Emperor survived an attempted murder.

[[Image:Stephansdom.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Karlskirche.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Votivkirche.JPG|100px]]

== Great Places & Chillout Areas ==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

[[Image:Museumsquartier.jpg|200px]]

'''Altes AKH'''

This area formerly was a part of Vienna's general hospital and is now hosting some of Vienna University's Institutes as well as some restaurants and beer gardens. Although this area is near some busy roads (and not far from town centre), its very calm inside (as calm as beer gardens can be :P ) since its an inner yard. I love getting drunk in this place in summer. Eight tentacles up :D

[[Image:Altes_AKH.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Altes_akh_plan.jpg|150px]]

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/]

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)
Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)
Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)
Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)
Thursday: Beat It (DnB)
Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)
Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.
Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''Camera'''

'''Donau'''

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

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File:Altes akh plan.jpg

2008-01-03T19:10:16Z

Hoozn: Map of the "Altes AKH". The lower yard is where you can find all the restaurants and beer gardens.

Map of the "Altes AKH". The lower yard is where you can find all the restaurants and beer gardens.

File:Altes AKH.jpg

2008-01-03T19:08:26Z

Hoozn: Inside the "Altes AKH"

Inside the "Altes AKH"

Vienna

2008-01-03T18:53:20Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Chill-out areas / Sightseeing==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

[[Image:Museumsquartier.jpg|200px]]

'''Hofburg''' [http://www.hofburg.com/cms/front_content.php|a peek inside] and [http://www.hofburg-wien.at/|the museum's hp]

Classic. lol. The Hofburg was one of the residencies of Austrian emperors and is nowadays among others still the government building directly in the town centre. Inside Hofburg youll also find the "Spanische Hofreitschule" (the Lippizaner horses thing), the "Nationalbibliothek" (national library), the "Völkerkundemuseum" (ethnology museum) and so on. In front of Hofburg, there is a huge square called Heldenplatz where you can chill out or watch people playing frisbee, football and some other weird games. Unfortunately, the grass on other places is always greener, so id suggest you visit some parks for your chillout sessions instead.

[[Image:Hofburg_innenhof.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Hofburg_nationalbibliothek.jpg|200px]]

'''Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Palace)''' [http://www.schoenbrunn.at/]

Schönbrunn was the summer residency of Austrias regents and is maybe the most famous sightseeing area in Vienna. Its a bit outside of the town centre, but you can go there very quickly by metro (U4, Schönbrunn). The palace itself is...well, a palace like Versailles and so on. And just like Versailles it also has a beautiful and huge backyard (of course not as huge as Louis XIV's residency...but still quite big) with a bar/restaurant ("Gloriette", which was a part of the palace) in it, from where you have a great view over Vienna because its located on a hill.

[[Image:Schoenbrunn1.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_konzert.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_gloriette.jpg|200px]]

'''Churches / Cathedrals'''

Of course you can find a lot of nice churches and/or cathedrals in Vienna. The most famous and maybe most impressives are

'''Stephansdom (St. Stephens Cathedral)''' in the heart of Vienna (metro U1/U3 "Stephansplatz"; or simply by foot no matter where you are in the 1st district). Vienna's tallest cathedral. Its quite nice on the inside, and, if you want to, you can also ascend its two towers (northern tower, the smaller one, contains the "Bummerin" i.e. the church bell; southern tower is a popular lookout due to its 137metres of height).

'''Karlskirche''' is not far from towncenter at Karlsplatz (metro U1,U2,U4 or several bus/tram lines station "Karlsplatz"). Since its a baroque church, its full of Bling Bling :D

'''Votivkirche''' is also nearly a part of the first district and is next to Uni. Afaik it was built after some Emperor survived an attempted murder.

[[Image:Stephansdom.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Karlskirche.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Votivkirche.JPG|100px]]

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/]

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)
Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)
Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)
Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)
Thursday: Beat It (DnB)
Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)
Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.
Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''Camera'''

'''Donau'''

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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File:Votivkirche.JPG

2008-01-03T18:51:16Z

Hoozn: Votivkirche

Votivkirche

File:Karlskirche.jpg

2008-01-03T18:48:39Z

Hoozn: Karlskirche

Karlskirche

File:Stephansdom.jpg

2008-01-03T18:45:53Z

Hoozn: Stephansdom

Stephansdom

Vienna

2008-01-03T18:25:54Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Chill-out areas / Sightseeing==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

[[Image:Museumsquartier.jpg|200px]]

'''Hofburg''' [http://www.hofburg.com/cms/front_content.php|a peek inside] and [http://www.hofburg-wien.at/|the museum's hp]

Classic. lol. The Hofburg was one of the residencies of Austrian emperors and is nowadays among others still the government building directly in the town centre. Inside Hofburg youll also find the "Spanische Hofreitschule" (the Lippizaner horses thing), the "Nationalbibliothek" (national library), the "Völkerkundemuseum" (ethnology museum) and so on. In front of Hofburg, there is a huge square called Heldenplatz where you can chill out or watch people playing frisbee, football and some other weird games. Unfortunately, the grass on other places is always greener, so id suggest you visit some parks for your chillout sessions instead.

[[Image:Hofburg_innenhof.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Hofburg_nationalbibliothek.jpg|200px]]

'''Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Palace)''' [http://www.schoenbrunn.at/]

Schönbrunn was the summer residency of Austrias regents and is maybe the most famous sightseeing area in Vienna. Its a bit outside of the town centre, but you can go there very quickly by metro (U4, Schönbrunn). The palace itself is...well, a palace like Versailles and so on. And just like Versailles it also has a beautiful and huge backyard (of course not as huge as Louis XIV's residency...but still quite big) with a bar/restaurant ("Gloriette", which was a part of the palace) in it, from where you have a great view over Vienna because its located on a hill.

[[Image:Schoenbrunn1.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_konzert.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Schoenbrunn_gloriette.jpg|200px]]

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/]

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)
Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)
Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)
Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)
Thursday: Beat It (DnB)
Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)
Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.
Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''Camera'''

'''Donau'''

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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File:Schoenbrunn gloriette.jpg

2008-01-03T18:23:48Z

Hoozn: Gloriette.

Gloriette.

File:Schoenbrunn konzert.jpg

2008-01-03T18:22:19Z

Hoozn: Some concert in the gardens.

Some concert in the gardens.

File:Schoenbrunn1.jpg

2008-01-03T18:19:57Z

Hoozn: The palace seen from the backyard.

The palace seen from the backyard.

Vienna

2008-01-03T18:15:27Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Chill-out areas / Sightseeing==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

[[Image:Museumsquartier.jpg|200px]]

'''Hofburg''' [http://www.hofburg.com/cms/front_content.php|a peek inside] and [http://www.hofburg-wien.at/|the museum's hp]

Classic. lol. The Hofburg was one of the residencies of Austrian emperors and is nowadays among others still the government building directly in the town centre. Inside Hofburg youll also find the "Spanische Hofreitschule" (the Lippizaner horses thing), the "Nationalbibliothek" (national library), the "Völkerkundemuseum" (ethnology museum) and so on. In front of Hofburg, there is a huge square called Heldenplatz where you can chill out or watch people playing frisbee, football and some other weird games. Unfortunately, the grass on other places is always greener, so id suggest you visit some parks for your chillout sessions instead.

[[Image:Hofburg_innenhof.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Hofburg_nationalbibliothek.jpg|200px]]

'''Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Palace)''' [http://www.schoenbrunn.at/]

Schönbrunn was the summer residency of Austrias regents and is maybe the most famous sightseeing area in Vienna. Its a bit outside of the town centre, but you can go there very quickly by metro (U4, Schönbrunn). The palace itself is...well, a palace like Versailles and so on. And just like Versailles it also has a beautiful and huge backyard (of course not as huge as Louis XIV's residency...but still quite big) with a bar/restaurant ("Gloriette", which was a part of the palace) in it, from where you have a great view over Vienna because its located on a hill.

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/]

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)
Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)
Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)
Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)
Thursday: Beat It (DnB)
Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)
Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.
Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''Camera'''

'''Donau'''

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

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Vienna

2008-01-03T17:49:25Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Chill-out areas / Sightseeing==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

[[Image:Museumsquartier.jpg|200px]]

'''Hofburg'''

Classic. lol. The Hofburg was one of the residencies of Austrian emperors and is nowadays among others still the government building.
Inside Hofburg youll also find the "Spanische Hofreitschule" (the Lippizaner horses thing), the "Nationalbibliothek" (national library)

[[Image:Hofburg_innenhof.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Hofburg_nationalbibliothek.jpg|200px]]

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/]

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)
Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)
Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)
Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)
Thursday: Beat It (DnB)
Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)
Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.
Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''Camera'''

'''Donau'''

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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File:Hofburg nationalbibliothek.jpg

2008-01-03T17:48:59Z

Hoozn: The big entrance of the national library at Heldenplatz.

The big entrance of the national library at Heldenplatz.

File:Hofburg innenhof.jpg

2008-01-03T17:47:17Z

Hoozn: One of the inner yards.

One of the inner yards.

Vienna

2008-01-03T17:35:48Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Chill-out areas / Sightseeing==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

[[Image:Museumsquartier.jpg|200px]]

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/]

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)
Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)
Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)
Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)
Thursday: Beat It (DnB)
Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)
Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.
Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''Camera'''

'''Donau'''

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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File:Museumsquartier.jpg

2008-01-03T17:29:17Z

Hoozn: Public space inside MQ. The black cube in the background is the MUMOK museum.

Public space inside MQ. The black cube in the background is the MUMOK museum.

Vienna

2008-01-03T17:24:57Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) in general =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

'''By car'''

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

'''By train'''

[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

'''By plane'''

[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]

'''Metro'''

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

'''Bus/Tram'''

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

'''Signs'''

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

= Daylife =

== Shopping ==
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

'''Friendly House'''[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

'''Rave Up'''[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

'''Substance'''[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

'''R.I.P.'''

''Black Market''[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

''33/45''[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

''Cheap Record Store'' was the shop of the "Cheap Records" label owners Patrick Pulsinger & Erdem Tunakan located directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier). The shop was extremely small, but very comfortable. A great place where i met some nice DJ guys (including Tiefschwarz and so on).

== Chill-out areas / Sightseeing==

'''MQ (Museumsquartier)'''[http://www.mqw.at/]

The MQ is a public space that consists of several huge and not so huge art galleries/museums, some shops and some restaurants/cafés/bars as well (see for instance Nightlife -> Clubs -> Café Leopold) and is one of the 10 biggest cultural complexes in the world. The square in the middle of it is filled with uhm... artistic seats where you can relax for a few minutes or spend the whole afternoon lying in the sun. One of the coolest features is the dj sessions, which are hosted by local radio station FM4 and which include many well known local djs.

The biggest art galleries in there are "Leopold Museum" (mainly Austrian art of the 19th and 20th century by artists like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and so on; the white cube), "MUMOK" ("Museum für moderne Kunst", museum of modern art; the black cube) and "Halle" (the oldschool building, various exhibitions).

== Sightseeing ==

= Nightlife =

== Clubs ==

'''FLEX'''[http://www.flex.at/]

is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme:''' Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Café" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)
Monday: Dropshop (Dub/Dubstep)
Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)
Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)
Thursday: Beat It (DnB)
Friday: Usually London Calling Special (can change tho)
Saturday: Always changing (Guest DJs/Live Acts/Specials/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.
Sunday: afaik Flex is closed, Flex Café is open...

'''FLUC'''[http://www.fluc.at/]

is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme:''' FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

'''WUK'''[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]

is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme:''' Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]

is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme:''' Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

'''Camera'''

'''Donau'''

'''Passage'''

'''U4'''

'''Volksgarten'''

'''Wirr'''

== Bars ==

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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Vienna

2008-01-03T16:19:04Z

Hoozn:

Vienna

2008-01-03T16:13:29Z

Hoozn:

Vienna

2008-01-03T16:03:03Z

Hoozn:

Vienna

2008-01-03T15:20:58Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

=== By car ===
Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.
=== By train ===
[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.
===By plane ===
[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]
=== Metro ===
In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.
=== Bus/Tram ===
To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.
=== Signs ===
Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

== Daylife ==

=== Shopping ===
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

<big>'''Record Stores'''</big>
For you mixingbowlers there are of course some record stores out there that i'd like to recommend:

<big>''Friendly House''</big>[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

<big>''Rave Up''</big>[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

<big>''Substance''</big>[http://www.substance-store.com/index.php] is a store which concentrates on different rock/pop genres (indie, alternative, etc) but where you can also find some electro/hip hop/house tunes. The service is (as far as i know) shite, but who cares. SInce its not far away from Mariahilferstraße (one of the shopping main streets) it might be worth visiting.

<big>'''R.I.P.'''</big>

<big>''Black Market''</big>[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

<big>''33/45''</big>[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

=== Chill-out areas ===

== Nightlife ==

=== Clubs ===
<big>'''FLEX'''</big>[http://www.flex.at/] is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme'''

Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Heuriger" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)

Monday: DubClub (Dub)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Alway changing (Guest DJs/London Calling Special/Future Beatz/Live Acts/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

<big>'''FLUC'''</big>[http://www.fluc.at/] is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme'''

FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

<big>'''WUK'''</big>[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html] is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme'''

Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

<big>'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''</big>[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/] is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme'''

Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

<big>'''Camera'''</big>

<big>'''Donau'''</big>

<big>'''Passage'''</big>

<big>'''U4'''</big>

<big>'''Volksgarten'''</big>

<big>'''Wirr'''</big>
=== Bars ===

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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Vienna

2008-01-03T15:11:32Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

=== By car ===
Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.
=== By train ===
[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.
===By plane ===
[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]
=== Metro ===
In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.
=== Bus/Tram ===
To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.
=== Signs ===
Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]

== Daylife ==

=== Shopping ===
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

For you mixingbowlers there are of course some <big>'''record stores'''</big> that i'd like to recommend:

<big>''Friendly House''</big>[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

<big>''Rave Up''</big>[http://www.rave-up.at/] is Vienna's "cult" record store. Formerly known for guitar based music (everything from rock'n roll to punk), Rave Up now offers you a wide choice of records including genres like hip hop, electro, dance and experimental.

<big>'''R.I.P.'''</big>

<big>''Black Market''</big>[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

<big>''33/45''</big>[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

=== Chill-out areas ===

== Nightlife ==

=== Clubs ===
<big>'''FLEX'''</big>[http://www.flex.at/] is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme'''

Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Heuriger" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)

Monday: DubClub (Dub)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Alway changing (Guest DJs/London Calling Special/Future Beatz/Live Acts/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

<big>'''FLUC'''</big>[http://www.fluc.at/] is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme'''

FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

<big>'''WUK'''</big>[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html] is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme'''

Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

<big>'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''</big>[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/] is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme'''

Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

<big>'''Camera'''</big>

<big>'''Donau'''</big>

<big>'''Passage'''</big>

<big>'''U4'''</big>

<big>'''Volksgarten'''</big>

<big>'''Wirr'''</big>
=== Bars ===

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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[[Category:TMB Town and City Guides]]
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Vienna

2008-01-03T15:04:55Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

=== By car ===
Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.
=== By train ===
[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.
===By plane ===
[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]
=== Metro ===
In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.
=== Bus/Tram ===
To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.
=== Signs ===
Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]
== Daylife ==

=== Shopping ===
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

For you mixingbowlers there are of course some <big>'''record stores'''</big> that i'd like to recommend:

<big>'''Friendly House'''</big>[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.

<big>'''R.I.P.'''</big>

<big>'''Black Market'''</big>[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] was Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre) where you could find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. The vinyl section covered techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make the vinyl selection process as comfortable as possible, the shop sported 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats in order to creat some sort of living room feeling. You got the best expert advice/music recommendations in town when Fritz was present (I think hes responsible for about 50% of the stuff in my vinyl collection. lol).

<big>'''33/45'''</big>[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] was a small but well-provided record store. They covered loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you could also find some rarities there, because the shop owner used to buy record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. Thanks for your enthusiasm, Chris.

=== Chill-out areas ===

== Nightlife ==

=== Clubs ===
<big>'''FLEX'''</big>[http://www.flex.at/] is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme'''

Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Heuriger" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)

Monday: DubClub (Dub)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Alway changing (Guest DJs/London Calling Special/Future Beatz/Live Acts/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

<big>'''FLUC'''</big>[http://www.fluc.at/] is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme'''

FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

<big>'''WUK'''</big>[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html] is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme'''

Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

<big>'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''</big>[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/] is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme'''

Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

<big>'''Camera'''</big>

<big>'''Donau'''</big>

<big>'''Passage'''</big>

<big>'''U4'''</big>

<big>'''Volksgarten'''</big>

<big>'''Wirr'''</big>
=== Bars ===

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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[[Category:TMB Town and City Guides]]
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Springseven Graz

2008-01-03T14:58:12Z

Hoozn:

'''''---> Next Springfestival (Spring08) aproximately May/June 2008 (usually on Whit weekend) <---'''''

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#195 '''The Spring Festival in Graz (Styria, AUT)'''] did celebrate its seventh birthday with a shitload of international DJs and (as usual) cheap ticket prices (especially for you rich english blokes :P ).

'''''Date: Wed. 16-05-2007 to Sun. 20-05-2007'''''

=== How to go there ===

As long as youre a forein spastic genre lover, the easiest way should be:
- to go to [http://wiki.themixingbowl.org/Vienna Vienna] by plane and to take the train from Vienna to Graz (direct connection every 2 hours; travelling time around 2:30). Or
- to take a direct flight to Graz Airport. Unfortunately the airport is quite small so im not sure what airlines could offer you a direct flight.

=== What the f*#k is Graz??? ===

Graz is the second biggest town in Austria. Its located somewhere in the south-east and it has to offer sth like 250.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (about 50.000 of them are students), a nice town center, 2 breweries (Gösser & Puntigamer), the Schlossberg (i.e. the "mountain" in the middle of the city. lol), the Stadtpark (city park. greeeeeeat for chillout sessions or just lying around drinking and watching fit gals) with its Parkhouse (best "bar" ever), ...

=== The Festival ===

The festival takes place in some locations directly in the center of Graz ([http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#10 locations]). Due to the town's "enormous" size, you can always change location by foot if you want to (it usually takes you sth like 5-10 minutes. Just "Postgarage" is different because its not exactly in the center of the town).

''' Tickets '''

'''''4-Days-Pass including Opening live act:''''' 60EUR

'''''4-Days-Pass (regular):''''' 50EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (pre-sale):''''' 18EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (box office):''''' 20EUR

===[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#7 Programme]===

'''''Live acts including:'''''

Antony Rother, Carl Craig, EZ Rollers, Makossa & Megablast, Parov Stelar, Ragga Twins, Shantel, Shit Disco, Tali, Turntablerocker, Whomadewho, and so on.

'''''DJ Lineup including:'''''

4Hero, Alex Gopher, Aquasky, Ben Mono, Bionic Kid, Derrick May, Digital Mystikz, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Elite Force, Etienne de Crecy, Jazzanova, John Aquaviva, Kenny Larkin, marfloW, Michael Reinboth, Patrick Pulsinger, Plump DJs, Rainer Trüby, Slack Hippie, Stacey Pullen, Stereotyp, Tayo, Uwe Walkner, and many more.

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#201 '''Workshops''']

On one hand there will be the so called "Red Bull Music Academy" (last year's "instructor" was Carl Craig, two years ago it was Marky), on the other hand there is scheduled a VJ workshop (as far as i know with the coldcut visualist).

Check out the exact schedule on the [http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#2 official Springseven homepage].

[[category:Live Events]]

TMBisms

2007-12-30T20:22:48Z

Hoozn:

==A jaybeee==
To do a "jaybeee" is to be the first to post on a new page in an existing thread without referencing any previous post; so anyone who reads it doesn't know what the hell you are on about [http://www.themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=5417&page=100]. A [http://wiki.themixingbowl.org/User:Jaybeee jaybeee], often amusingly misspelled Jaybee [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=18715&page=2#139775], is also a type of TMB admin.

==Awwww, blee, just install iy nor==
Just one of the teachings imparted by our esteemed Commander-in-Chief, Coptang.

==irv'ing (or to irv)==
Synonymous to making something FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition) in the manner of the TMB admin by the same name. Also synonymous with "DWSR'ing" or "Clouseau'ing" as this entry was ironically screwed up the alphabetical order of the TMB'ism wiki by DWSR himself. Both synonyms coined by kbatman. However, it should be noted that DWSR ''''claimed'''' he screwed up the entry on purpose, in order to give an example of what it is 'to irv'.

==Bid voyeurism==
To watch bids on e-bay with the intent to causing mental instability to the person selling the item being watched, bid voyeurs will try to encourage others to join in "the watch" and maybe even ask the seller random questions that are likely to incite "bay rage"[http://www.themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=43023]

==Drugs Are Bad, mmkay?==
Drugs are bad
[[Image:DSC00078.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Drugs Are Bad]]

==Fart in your mouth, slap some taint==
The greatest put-down in the history of the modern put-down. First recorded in tmb-irc circa 2006.

==Fucky you guy (aka ocoisa)==
fucky you...
I am a stupid motherfucker and my IP has been blocked.
I would love to stay and converse like a rational human being, but since I had a large penis inserted in my ear it has made it almost impossible for me to act in any other way than the plancton that I am

==Goosing==
An act of sexual aggression but with no harm intended. Practised by Rees and other no good student types!!!

==Jump the shark, to==
According to cipater72, "jumping the shark" is "a reference to when something has become convoluted and a parody of itself, it loses sight of its former goals and becomes silly and meaningless. It comes from the programme Happy Days and was seen as a season too far when Fonzie jumped over a shark whilst water skiing". And dont even try to call this definition in question, because cipater72 is a resident who already donated to themixingbowl :)

==Libble==
An insignificant or nominal amount, particularly (but not necessarily) in reference to bit torrent sites, e.g. "What.cd and Waffles are neck-and-neck, more or less - give or take a Libble."

==Medal==
You get this TMB classic for incredibly l33t achievements like uploading 100GB (w00t??? respeeect maaan) or being a member for a year (its harder than you think thanks to the shiny red admin button). And if you should take it too seriously, check out the definition of [http://wiki.themixingbowl.org/TMBisms#Whoopdy_Fucking_Do Whoopdy Fuckin Do] ;-)
[[Image:medal.jpg|thumb|none|200px|The Medal]]

==New Job==
Something apparently not only worth posting about on TMB in its own thread, but also worth telling people you know in real life after you've read somebody else got one. May also be accompanied by a news announcement on the main page. [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=42275&page=1 Example]
[[Image:2wenty6ix.jpg|thumb|none|200px|New job announcement]]

==NSFW==
Acronym for "Not Safe For Work" but potentially means "Not suitable for anybody anywhere." If you are easily offended, in the presence of minors or using a publicly viewable computer you should not enter a forum thread marked NSFW. Expect to be offended at some point but mostly expect to see lovely human females in various states of undress. Always check links before clicking, unless you really want to find out about Tub Girl and Meatspin.

==Pella==
Accapella collection, most notably uploaded by Plugg

==Owl flirting==
A euphemism for "having an erection", e.g. "Don't mind the dog; one can only expect such a welcome when he's flirting with the owl as he is." - luvtub[http://www.themixingbowl.org/userdetails.php?id=511]

[[Image:Alanowl0dq.jpg|thumb|left|200px|No Wai!]][[Image:Hootvz7.jpg|none|thumb|208px|Mag!]]

==Taint==
Anatomical reference, specifically female human, a.k.a. perineum, chinrest : derived from "T'aint pussy, t'aint ass."

==The Random Thread a.k.a "Ouch"[http://tmb.dj/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=9691&page=1]==

"So, you can see that it's green, and it's not even a new one!"

==Tit Monday==
That special day in the year when, for the first time, the temperature rises above that magical point which causes girls getting dressed in the morning to decide to show a bit of nork.

==Titso==
Phenomenally gifted [http://themixingbowl.org/browse.php?incldead=1&anor=or&search=essential&sort=added/ Trance] DJ with teh 1337 Fisher Price sk1llz. Nickname coined by Vital1c. [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=29041&page=1#228616]
[[Image:Tiesto_turntables.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Titso showing off M4d sk1llz]]
[[Image:ravers.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Titso fans!]]

=="I Wanna Upload" Muppet==
A person who wants to contribute to TMB by sharing stuff but clearly cannot read HUGE RED LETTERS. [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=158 Look Here]

==Whoopdy Fucking Do==
while not originating on TMB, it has, courtesy of Snykch[http://themixingbowl.org/userdetails.php?id=2738], become a standard cynical and withering reply to self-fellating threads, e.g. "My 10th Post", "I've uploaded a megabyte!", "I'm 1 Year Old!!!" etc. [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=6498&page=2#82361]

==#themixingbowl==

Habituated by the small number of TMB members who can figure out how to use IRC. Gay inuendo and wozz'es mum jokes are the order of the day. #themixingbowl is a sanctuary for TMB's most bitter and twisted individuals. There is nothing better than after a long hard day of wanking at work to jump into #themixingbowl and enjoy a spit-roasting. Beware of the lurkers, chances are its your mum and she wont be happy about the naughty words you have been saying.

The best banter to be had when everyone is fucked up on Stella.

BTW, Rad hates M$ and we thank Mook for the endless enjoyment he provides by entertaining his rants.

==The Daddy==

When you haven't uploaded enough he comes to your house and shits on your settee. It takes weeks to get rid of the smell, not to mention his entourage of Tong-crazed pilled-up lunatics.
[[Image:coptang.jpg|thumb|none|300px|I can see your settee from here.......]]

==Wiki==
A mythical place that exists only in legend. [http://wiki.themixingbowl.org/]

==Widging (or to Widge)==
Losing ones job due to excessive use of the broadweb whilst at work, this includes 'Bowling, emailing and looking at too much (is there such a thing?) porn whilst you are supposed to be doing the job your frickin' paid to do!!!!

TMBisms

2007-12-30T20:19:27Z

Hoozn:

==A jaybeee==
To do a "jaybeee" is to be the first to post on a new page in an existing thread without referencing any previous post; so anyone who reads it doesn't know what the hell you are on about [http://www.themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=5417&page=100]. A [http://wiki.themixingbowl.org/User:Jaybeee jaybeee], often amusingly misspelled Jaybee [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=18715&page=2#139775], is also a type of TMB admin.

==Awwww, blee, just install iy nor==
Just one of the teachings imparted by our esteemed Commander-in-Chief, Coptang.

==irv'ing (or to irv)==
Synonymous to making something FUBAR (fucked up beyond all recognition) in the manner of the TMB admin by the same name. Also synonymous with "DWSR'ing" or "Clouseau'ing" as this entry was ironically screwed up the alphabetical order of the TMB'ism wiki by DWSR himself. Both synonyms coined by kbatman. However, it should be noted that DWSR ''''claimed'''' he screwed up the entry on purpose, in order to give an example of what it is 'to irv'.

==Bid voyeurism==
To watch bids on e-bay with the intent to causing mental instability to the person selling the item being watched, bid voyeurs will try to encourage others to join in "the watch" and maybe even ask the seller random questions that are likely to incite "bay rage"[http://www.themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=43023]

==Drugs Are Bad, mmkay?==
Drugs are bad
[[Image:DSC00078.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Drugs Are Bad]]

==Fart in your mouth, slap some taint==
The greatest put-down in the history of the modern put-down. First recorded in tmb-irc circa 2006.

==Fucky you guy (aka ocoisa)==
fucky you...
I am a stupid motherfucker and my IP has been blocked.
I would love to stay and converse like a rational human being, but since I had a large penis inserted in my ear it has made it almost impossible for me to act in any other way than the plancton that I am

==Goosing==
An act of sexual aggression but with no harm intended. Practised by Rees and other no good student types!!!

==Jump the shark, to==
According to cipater72, "jumping the shark" is "a reference to when something has become convoluted and a parody of itself, it loses sight of its former goals and becomes silly and meaningless. It comes from the programme Happy Days and was seen as a season too far when Fonzie jumped over a shark whilst water skiing". And dont even try to call this definition in question, because cipater72 is a resident who already donated to themixingbowl :)

==Libble==
An insignificant or nominal amount, particularly (but not necessarily) in reference to bit torrent sites, e.g. "What.cd and Waffles are neck-and-neck, more or less - give or take a Libble."

==Medal==
You get this TMB classic for incredibly l33t achievements like uploading 100GB (w00t??? respeeect maaan) or being a member for a year (its harder than you think thanks to the shiny red admin button).
[[Image:medal.jpg|thumb|none|200px|The Medal]]

==New Job==
Something apparently not only worth posting about on TMB in its own thread, but also worth telling people you know in real life after you've read somebody else got one. May also be accompanied by a news announcement on the main page. [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=42275&page=1 Example]
[[Image:2wenty6ix.jpg|thumb|none|200px|New job announcement]]

==NSFW==
Acronym for "Not Safe For Work" but potentially means "Not suitable for anybody anywhere." If you are easily offended, in the presence of minors or using a publicly viewable computer you should not enter a forum thread marked NSFW. Expect to be offended at some point but mostly expect to see lovely human females in various states of undress. Always check links before clicking, unless you really want to find out about Tub Girl and Meatspin.

==Pella==
Accapella collection, most notably uploaded by Plugg

==Owl flirting==
A euphemism for "having an erection", e.g. "Don't mind the dog; one can only expect such a welcome when he's flirting with the owl as he is." - luvtub[http://www.themixingbowl.org/userdetails.php?id=511]

[[Image:Alanowl0dq.jpg|thumb|left|200px|No Wai!]][[Image:Hootvz7.jpg|none|thumb|208px|Mag!]]

==Taint==
Anatomical reference, specifically female human, a.k.a. perineum, chinrest : derived from "T'aint pussy, t'aint ass."

==The Random Thread a.k.a "Ouch"[http://tmb.dj/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=9691&page=1]==

"So, you can see that it's green, and it's not even a new one!"

==Tit Monday==
That special day in the year when, for the first time, the temperature rises above that magical point which causes girls getting dressed in the morning to decide to show a bit of nork.

==Titso==
Phenomenally gifted [http://themixingbowl.org/browse.php?incldead=1&anor=or&search=essential&sort=added/ Trance] DJ with teh 1337 Fisher Price sk1llz. Nickname coined by Vital1c. [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=29041&page=1#228616]
[[Image:Tiesto_turntables.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Titso showing off M4d sk1llz]]
[[Image:ravers.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Titso fans!]]

=="I Wanna Upload" Muppet==
A person who wants to contribute to TMB by sharing stuff but clearly cannot read HUGE RED LETTERS. [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=158 Look Here]

==Whoopdy Fucking Do==
while not originating on TMB, it has, courtesy of Snykch[http://themixingbowl.org/userdetails.php?id=2738], become a standard cynical and withering reply to self-fellating threads, e.g. "My 10th Post", "I've uploaded a megabyte!", "I'm 1 Year Old!!!" etc. [http://themixingbowl.org/topics.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=6498&page=2#82361]

==#themixingbowl==

Habituated by the small number of TMB members who can figure out how to use IRC. Gay inuendo and wozz'es mum jokes are the order of the day. #themixingbowl is a sanctuary for TMB's most bitter and twisted individuals. There is nothing better than after a long hard day of wanking at work to jump into #themixingbowl and enjoy a spit-roasting. Beware of the lurkers, chances are its your mum and she wont be happy about the naughty words you have been saying.

The best banter to be had when everyone is fucked up on Stella.

BTW, Rad hates M$ and we thank Mook for the endless enjoyment he provides by entertaining his rants.

==The Daddy==

When you haven't uploaded enough he comes to your house and shits on your settee. It takes weeks to get rid of the smell, not to mention his entourage of Tong-crazed pilled-up lunatics.
[[Image:coptang.jpg|thumb|none|300px|I can see your settee from here.......]]

==Wiki==
A mythical place that exists only in legend. [http://wiki.themixingbowl.org/]

==Widging (or to Widge)==
Losing ones job due to excessive use of the broadweb whilst at work, this includes 'Bowling, emailing and looking at too much (is there such a thing?) porn whilst you are supposed to be doing the job your frickin' paid to do!!!!

File:Medal.jpg

2007-12-30T20:16:56Z

Hoozn: the medal, you finally got it.

the medal, you finally got it.

Category:Radio Stations

2007-11-10T04:58:23Z

Hoozn:

If you know of very interesting radio stations broadcasting DJ sets or live band appearances that are not in the list, do not hesitate to add it.

'''Click on the provided links to check the shows or to start the radio stream'''. For feature explanations of the following listing, look at the bottom of the table!

{| class="wikitable" align="center"
|+ Dance Radio Stations broadcasting radio shows, original DJ sets and live-sets of bands around the World
! Status !! Flag !! Lang !! Radio Station !! Main show / Schedule / Calendar !! Analogue !! Digital ([[MP2]]) !!Internet
|-
| || [[Image:Germany.gif]] || --- || [[1LIVE]] ||[http://www.einslive.de/sendungen/rocker/ Rocker (EDM)] & [http://www.einslive.de/sendungen/fiehe/ Fiehe (german 'John Peel')] || FM, cable || style="background:#B9FFC5;" | 320k DVB-S || [http://metafiles.gl-systemhaus.de/wdr/channel_einslive.m3u 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Ireland.gif]] || engl. || [[2FM]] ||[http://www.rte.ie/2fm/dancesessions/ 2FM Dance Sessions] || FM || 192k DVB-S || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.rte.ie/smiltest/2fm_new.smil 20-64k RA]
|-
| || [[Image:Israel.gif]] || --- || [[99ESC]] || [http://www.99esc.co.il/99esc/broadcastschedule.asp '''Schedule'''] || FM, cable || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://switch5.castup.net/_custom/radiobu99fm/audio.asx 32-48k WMA]
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[Afterhours.fm]] || [http://afterhours.fm 30+ EDM Shows - '''Calendar'''] || --- || --- || [http://stats.ah.fm/dynamicplaylist.m3u?quality=192 192k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:UKflag.gif]] || engl. || [[Radio1|bbc Radio1]] || [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/index.shtml The Essential Mix, Worldwide, etc.] || FM || 192k Freeview || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram 20-48k RA]
|-
| || [[Image:UKflag.gif]] ||engl. || [[1Xtra|bbc 1Xtra]] || [http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/shows/ New Black Music - '''Schedule'''] || --- || 160k Freeview || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/BBC1Xtra_hi.asx 20k WMA]
|-
| || [[Image:UKflag.gif]] || engl. || [[6Music|bbc 6music]] || [http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/6mix/ 6 Mix] || --- || 160k Freeview || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCRadio_music/Event/BBCRadio6.asx 10k WMA] (mono)
|-
| || [[Image:Jamaica.gif|34x22px]] || engl. || [[BigUpRadio]] || [http://www.bigupradio.com/stations.jsp '''Reggae''' (Roots,Dancehall,Dub,Ska,...)] || --- || --- || [http://www.bigupradio.com/stations.jsp 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Holland.gif]] || engl. || [[BNN.fm]] / 3fm || [http://www.bnn.nl/view/542/1209/8411284 BNN Los!] || FM ''(3FM)'' || --- || [http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8012/listen.pls 192k MP3] ''(BNN.fm)''
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[Breaks.fm]] || [http://breaks.fm/php/today.php 40+ Breaks Shows - '''Schedule'''] || --- || --- || [http://stream.breaks.fm:9000/listen.pls 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[CBA.fm]] || [http://cbafm.com/documents/23.html 30+ EDM Shows - '''Calendar'''] || --- || --- || [http://cbafm.com:8002/listen.pls 64k PRO] [http://www.mp3prozone.com/download_winamp.htm (plugin)]
|-
| || [[Image:France.gif]] || --- || [[Contact.fm]] || [http://www.contactmusic.fr/Clubbing/djs.php5 Clubbing] || FM || 128k DVB-S || [http://www.contactmusic.fr/VIP/ecoute-128k.php5 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Germany.gif]] || --- || [[Das Ding]] || [http://www.dasding.de/plattenleger/ Plattenleger (EDM)] || FM, cable || style="background:#B9FFC5;" | 320k DVB-S || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://lsd.newmedia.tiscali-business.com/bb/redirect.lsc?stream=dasding/livestream.wma&content=live&media=ms 48k WMA]
|-
| || [[Image:Holland.gif]] || engl. || [[Deep.fm]] || [http://www.deep.fm/weekoverzicht.php 10+ House Shows - Defected - '''Schedule'''] || cable || --- || [http://www.deep.fm/play/128K.pls 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[DI.fm]] || [http://di.fm/calendar/calendar.php 30+ EDM Shows - '''Calendar'''] || --- || --- || [http://di.fm 192k MP3] ('''$$$''')
|-
| || [[Image:Turkey.gif]] || engl. || [[Dinamo.fm]] || [http://www.dinamo.fm/djler.asp?djId=33 30+ EDM DJs '''Overview'''] || FM || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.dinamo.fm/dinamo_aacplus.pls 32k AAC+]
|-
| || [[Image:France.gif]] || --- || [[DJ Radio FG]] || [http://www.radiofg.com/grille/ Club FG (EDM)] || FM || 192k DVB-S || [http://fg.elliptic.fr:8000/listen.pls 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Germany.gif]] || --- || [[EBM Radio]] || [http://www.ebm-radio.de/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=54 EBM / Industrial / Electro - '''Shows'''] || --- || --- || [http://ebmradio.de:13000/ebm.ogg 128k Ogg]
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[ETN.fm]] || [http://etn.fm 50+ EDM Shows - '''Calendar'''] || --- || --- || [http://etn.fm 128k AAC+]
|-
| || [[Image:Australia.gif]] || engl. || [[Fresh FM]] || [http://www.freshfm.com.au/index.php?PID=641 24/7 all EDM genres - '''Schedule'''] || FM || --- || [http://streamhq.adam.com.au:8000/FreshFM.m3u 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Holland.gif]] || engl. || [[Fresh.fm]] || [http://fresh.fm/programmas.asp Club Fresh (ASOT, In Session, Grooves)] || FM || --- || [http://www.fresh.fm/media/audio/ListenHigh.pls 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[Frisky Radio]] || [http://friskyradio.com/shows/ 40+ EDM shows - '''Calendar'''] || --- || --- || [http://www.friskyradio.com/frisky_aac.m3u 128k AAC+]
|-
| || [[Image:Germany.gif]] || ---|| [[Fritz]] || [http://www.fritz.de/_/programm/soundgarden/abend/index_jsp.html Soundgarden, Rave Satellite (EDM)] || FM, cable || style="background:#B9FFC5;" | 320k DVB-S || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.fritz.de/_/fritz_sure.smi 20-64k RA]
|-
| || [[Image:England.gif]] || engl. || [[Galaxy]] || [http://www.galaxy105.co.uk/sectional.asp?ID=5110 Hed Kandi, Tidy Boys, ...] || FM || 160k SkyDigital || style="background:#FECBCB;" | WMA (UK only)
|-
| || [[Image:Germany.gif]] || --- || [[Globalbeats.fm]] || [http://globalbeats.fm 10+ EDM shows - '''Calendar'''] || --- || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.globalbeats.fm/winamp.m3u 96k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:UKflag.gif]] || engl. || [[Kiss100]] || [http://www.kiss100.com/nav?page=kiss.schedule John Digweed, Tall Paul - '''Schedule'''] || FM || 128k SkyDigital || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.emapdigitalradio.com/emapdigitalradio/metafiles/kiss.asx WMA] (UK only)
|-
| || [[Image:USA.gif]] || engl. || [[KTU New York]] || [http://ktu.com/pages/res_djs.html KTU Riddler - '''Schedule'''] || FM || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://a319.l1997343786.c19973.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/319/19973/v0001/reflector:43786 32k WMA]
|-
| || [[Image:London.gif|32x20px]] || engl. || [[London Pirates]] || [http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/radio/london-pirate-radio/ All live pirate stations in London - '''Music & Listings'''] || --- || --- || (see Listings)
|-
| || [[Image:Spain.gif]] || --- || [[Maxima.FM]] || [http://www.maxima.fm/maxima/programas/in_session.html In Sessions] || FM || 160k DVB-S || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.los40.com/nuevo_player/maxima.asx 16-32k RA] (mono)
|-
| || [[Image:Argentina.gif]] || engl. || [[Metro 95.1]] || [http://www.metro951.com/metrodance.aspx Metrodance - '''Schedule'''] || FM || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | WMA (ARG only)
|-
| || [[Image:UKflag.gif]] || engl. || [[MinistryOfSound|MoS]] || [http://www.ministryofsound.com/radio/schedule/ many DJs - '''Schedule'''] || --- || 128k SkyDigital || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://origin-community.ministryofsound.com/asx/radio/mosradio.asx 32k WMA] ('''$''': 96k)
|-
| || [[Image:Germany.gif]] || --- || [[N-Joy]] || [http://www.n-joy.de/njoy_pages_std/0,3044,SPM2162,00.html N-Joy Soundfiles (HipHop / EDM)] || FM, cable || style="background:#B9FFC5;" | 320k DVB-S || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://lsd.newmedia.tiscali-business.com/bb/redirect.lsc?content=live&media=ms&stream=ndr/live/n-joy.wma 20-64k WMA]
|-
| || [[Image:London.gif|32x20px]] || engl. || [[Origin FM 95.2 | Origin FM]] || [http://www.originfm952.com/ D&B/Jungle/Old Skool/etc - '''Schedule'''] || FM || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.originfm952.com/origin.m3u 64k MP3] (mono)
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[Party107]] || [http://www.party107.com/forum/calendar.php 30+ EDM shows - '''Calendar'''] || --- || --- || [http://www.party107.com/Party107_High.m3u 160k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Austria.gif]] || engl. || [[Play.FM]] || [http://www.play.fm/index.php Audio Database (Radio / On Demand)] || --- || --- || [http://play.fm/playfm_schedule.php?mode=radio 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[Proton Radio]] || [http://protonradio.com/show.php 20+ EDM shows - '''Calendar'''] || --- || --- || [http://www.protonradio.com 192k MP3] ('''$$$''')
|-
| || [[Image:Holland.gif]] || engl. || [[Radio 538]] || [http://www.radio538.nl/538/programmas/dancedepartment/lineup.jsp Dance Department (EDM)] || FM || 192k DVB-S || [http://www.garnierstreamingmedia.com/asx/radio538.asp 96k WMA]
|-
| || [[Image:Sweden.gif]] || --- || [[RadioSeven]] || [http://www.radioseven.se/default.asp?page=tabla ICAM Sessions] || --- || --- || [http://www.radioseven.se/radioseven.pls 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:UKflag.gif]] || engl. || [[Re:freshed]] || [http://www.refresh.shedradio.com Dedicated House & Trance] || --- || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://www.shedradio.com/trance/links/listen.pls 96k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:London.gif|32x20px]] || engl. || [[Resonance]] || [http://www.resonancefm.com Artistic (experimental) - '''Schedule'''] || FM || --- || [http://live1.radiovague.com:8000/resonancefm128k.ogg.m3u 128k Ogg]
|-
| || [[Image:London.gif|32x20px]] || engl. || [[Rinse FM 100.4 | Rinse FM]] || [http://www.rinse.fm Grime/Dubstep/House/Garage - '''Forums'''] || FM || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://typhoon.exequo.org:8000/rinseradio/ 64k MP3] (mono)
|-
| || [[Image:Swiss.gif|32x20px]] || engl. || [[Rouge Platine]] || [http://www.rougeplatine.com/grille.php Electro/Dance/House '''Schedule'''] || FM || --- || [http://www.rougeplatine.com/player_files.php?type=high&format=winamp& 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:London.gif|32x20px]] || engl. || [[Rude FM 88.2 | Rude FM]] || [http://www.rudefm882.co.uk/ Drum & Bass - '''Forums/Schedule'''] || FM || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://rude882.servemp3.com/ 80k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Japan.gif]] || engl. || [[Samurai FM]] || [http://www.samurai.fm/home/ '''Schedule''' (Live Radio / On Demand)] || --- || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://itunes.samurai.fm/listen.pls 96k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Southafrica.gif|32x20px]] || engl. || [[SAR fm]] || [http://www.sarfmradio.com/djschedule.html AfroJazz/Kwaito/Urban '''Schedule'''] || --- || --- || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://stream.netro.ca/sarfmradio 20k WMA]
|-
| || [[Image:Canada.gif|32x20px]] || engl. || [[Scratch]] || [http://www.azevedo.ca/scratch/ mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae & dub] || --- || --- || [http://www.azevedo.ca/scratch/scratch.m3u 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[Sol. Steel Radio| Sol.SteelRadio]] || [http://ninjatune.net/solidsteel/playlist.php Solid Steel] || FM || --- || [http://ninjatune.net/solidsteel/playlist.php?play=1 128k WMA]
|-
| || [[Image:Earth.jpg|34x22px]] || engl. || [[Soma FM]] || [http://somafm.com/recent/?groovesalad '''Groove Salad''' (ambient grooves)] || --- || --- || [http://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Belgium.gif]] || --- || [[Studio Brussel]] || [http://www.stubru.be/stubru_master/programmas/laurent_garnier/home/index.html It Is What It Is], [http://www.stubru.be/stubru_master/programmas/switch/home/index.html Switch], [http://www.stubru.be/stubru_master/programmas/worldwide/home/index.html Worldwide] || FM || 192k DVB-S || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://internetradio.vrt.be/dab/hoeluisteren/pc/help/gebruiksvoorwaarden/stream_41.m3U 96k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:Germany.gif]] || --- || [[sunshine-live]] || [http://www.sunshine-live.de/index.php?id=89 Mellomania De Luxe], [http://www.sunshine-live.de/index.php?id=92 SSL Technoclub] || FM, cable || 192k DVB-S || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://lsd.newmedia.tiscali-business.com/bb/redirect.lsc?adid=13335&content=live&media=rm&stream=sunshinelive/livestream.rm 16-64k RA]
|-
| || [[Image:Australia.gif]] || engl. || [[Triple J|Triple J (JJJ)]] || [http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/mixup/default.htm JJJ MixUp] || FM || --- || [http://abc.net.au/streaming/triplej/triplej.m3u 128k MP3]
|-
| || [[Image:UKflag.gif]] || engl. || [[XFM]] || [http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=5285 The Rinse] & [http://www.xfm.co.uk/article.asp?id=5282 The Remix] [http://www.xfm.co.uk/schedule.asp?b=none&t=schedule '''Schedule'''] || FM, cable || 192k SkyDigital || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://ms2.capitalinteractive.co.uk/xfm_high 32k WMA] (UK only)
|-
| || [[Image:Germany.gif]] || --- || [[YouFM]] || [http://www.hr-online.de/website/radio/you_fm/index.jsp?rubrik=12424 You.fm Clubnight (EDM)] || FM, cable || style="background:#B9FFC5;" | 320k DVB-S || style="background:#FECBCB;" | [http://cms.streamfarm.net/cms/_v/channel/youfm/club.pls 96k MP3]
|-
|}

The list contains the radio stations, links to the main radio show or the schedule and some info about the availability of ''english'' explanations on-site. [[Image:New2.gif]] and [[Image:Update.gif]] indicate new entries, updates and changes within the last four weeks.

For available terrestrial and satellite digital broadcasts (all possible [[MP2]]-based DVB/DAB varieties) and internet streams ([[MP3]], [[AAC|AAC+]] and others), only the sources with the highest freely accessible bitrates are given - DVB is here typically slightly better than DAB broadcasts at the same bitrate. Some entries are in part color-coded. Cells with a green background color indicate broadcasts in exceptionally high quality - use this source if you want to record shows! Cells with a red background color should be avoided - low quality!!

Minimum acceptable bitrates for decent quality for the [[MP3]] and [[MP2]] formats (DAB, DVB-S (SkyDigital), DVB-T (Freeview), Internet broadcasts) are 128kbit/s, for [[AAC|AAC+]] and [[Ogg Vorbis|OGG]] consider at least 64kbit/s. Be careful with 128kbit/s MP2/MP3 broadcasts, the quality might be quite bad at times.

''Note, that UK internet broadcasts are in general restricted to UK residents - your degree of success in getting the streams will vary - sometimes it works, sometimes it does not!!''

'''If you are looking for possibilities to access radios not listed by the table:'''
* For '''''analogue''''' FM and cable broadcasts: simply check your radio or look for the stations your cable provider is offering.
* For '''''terrestrial digital audio broadcasts''''', check [http://www.wohnort.demon.co.uk/DAB/ DAB frequencies and available bitrates here]. The list is updated daily! Another list is available from the [http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/digital_radio_bit_rates.htm Digital Radio Tech] website.
* For '''''satellite digital audio broadcasts''''', check available beams, frequencies and coordinates here:[http://www.lyngsat.com/freeradio/ Worldwide Satellite Radio Stations Info]. For Europe, the fleet of [http://www.lyngsat.com/astra19.html Astra satellites] is especially important. The definite source for [http://www.edi-hof.de/transponder/sat-index.html bitrates of satellite digital audio broadcasts] is quite new and updated daily!
* For '''''digital internet audio broadcasts''''', just check the direct links provided together with the list of radio stations above. Given are always the streams with the highest quality. For satellite radios additionally offering internet broadcasts you will find a [http://www.lyngsat.com/netradio/ huge list with direct links to net broadcasts] at Lyngsat as well. You can also check lists at [http://www.tuner2.com Tuner2.com (AAC+)] and at [http://www.shoutcast.com Shoutcast.com (MP3)] for lots of internet radios. A more exotic list of internet radios can be found at [http://dir.xiph.org/ Xiph.org (Ogg Vorbis)].

[[Category:Top Level]]

Vienna

2007-06-13T17:57:10Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

=== By car ===
Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.
=== By train ===
[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.
===By plane ===
[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]
=== Metro ===
In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.
=== Bus/Tram ===
To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.
=== Signs ===
Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]
== Daylife ==

=== Shopping ===
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

For you mixingbowlers there are of course some <big>'''record stores'''</big> that i'd like to recommend:

<big>'''Black Market'''</big>[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] is Vienna's most sophisticated record store (located in the town centre. near U2/U4 station Schottenring) where you can find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. I dont know a lot about their cd selection, but i do know for sure that the vinyl section covers techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make your vinyl selection as comfortable as possible, the shop sports 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats for chill out purposes. Btw: smoking allowed and youll get the best expert advice/music recommendations when Fritz is present (but dont worry, i think hes working nearly every day).

<big>'''33/45'''</big>[http://www.recordstore.at/home.php] is a small but well-provided record store. They cover loads of different styles like techno, progressive, house, electro, tribal, dnb etc. Sometimes you can find some rarities there, because the shop owner also buys record collections from people who want to give up deejaying/need money/whatever. They have 3 or 4 turntables there (not sure) and its allowed to smoke as far as i remember.

<big>'''Friendly House'''</big>[http://www.friendlyhouse.at/] is a music store that specializes on deejay equipment as well as PAs, but also has to offer vinyl. You'll find mainly house (quelle surprise) and techno there as well as a little bit of electro, progressive, tranz and sellout records. I did buy my whole dj-equipment in this store, and i gotta say that their service and guidance concerning equipment is really great. Regarding their record section, the service is non existent, but you'll find sth like 4 working turntables over there plus the prices are usually quite low.
=== Chill-out areas ===

== Nightlife ==

=== Clubs ===
<big>'''FLEX'''</big>[http://www.flex.at/] is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme'''

Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Heuriger" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)

Monday: DubClub (Dub)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Alway changing (Guest DJs/London Calling Special/Future Beatz/Live Acts/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

<big>'''FLUC'''</big>[http://www.fluc.at/] is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme'''

FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

<big>'''WUK'''</big>[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html] is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme'''

Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

<big>'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''</big>[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/] is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme'''

Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

<big>'''Camera'''</big>

<big>'''Donau'''</big>

<big>'''Passage'''</big>

<big>'''U4'''</big>

<big>'''Volksgarten'''</big>

<big>'''Wirr'''</big>
=== Bars ===

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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[[Category:TMB Town and City Guides]]
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Vienna

2007-06-13T17:34:45Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

=== By car ===
Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.
=== By train ===
[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.
===By plane ===
[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]
=== Metro ===
In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.
=== Bus/Tram ===
To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.
=== Signs ===
Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]
== Daylife ==

=== Shopping ===
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it: Kärntnerstraße/Graben (in the first district. those two are considered to be "the" city centre) and Mariahilferstraße (sixth district, starts more or less in the city centre).

For you mixingbowlers there are of course some <big>'''record stores'''</big> that i'd like to recommend:

<big>'''Black Market'''</big>[http://www.soulseduction.com/main/blackmarket.php] is Vienna's most sophisticated record store where you can find vinyl as well as cds and merchandising stuff like shirts or bags. I dont know a lot about their cd selection, but i do know for sure that the vinyl section covers techno, electro, house (main area), headz/groove/nujazz (well...viennese downtempo of course as well as german stuff like compost records and so on), hip hop (not that much), soul/funk/blues (some classic tunes in there) and a little bit of dnb. To make your vinyl selection as comfortable as possible, the shop sports 4 turntables for listening purposes as well as a small bar and a few seats for chill out purposes. Btw: smoking allowed in there :)
=== Chill-out areas ===

== Nightlife ==

=== Clubs ===
<big>'''FLEX'''</big>[http://www.flex.at/] is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme'''

Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Heuriger" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)

Monday: DubClub (Dub)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Alway changing (Guest DJs/London Calling Special/Future Beatz/Live Acts/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

<big>'''FLUC'''</big>[[http://www.fluc.at/]] is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme'''

FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

<big>'''WUK'''</big>[[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]] is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

'''Programme'''

Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

<big>'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''</big>[[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]] is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

'''Programme'''

Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

<big>'''Camera'''</big>

<big>'''Donau'''</big>

<big>'''Passage'''</big>

<big>'''U4'''</big>

<big>'''Volksgarten'''</big>

<big>'''Wirr'''</big>
=== Bars ===

tits a test made by the most random member who has no clue how to write a wiki article.

but ill try to finish what i started :)
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[[Category:TMB Town and City Guides]]
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Springseven Graz

2007-04-27T13:02:10Z

Hoozn:

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#195 '''The Spring Festival in Graz (Styria, AUT)'''] celebrates its seventh birthday with a shitload of international DJs and (as usual) cheap ticket prices (especially for you rich english blokes :P ).

'''''Date: Wed. 16-05-2007 to Sun. 20-05-2007'''''

=== How to go there ===

As long as youre a forein spastic genre lover, the easiest way should be:
- to go to [http://wiki.themixingbowl.org/Vienna Vienna] by plane and to take the train from Vienna to Graz (direct connection every 2 hours; travelling time around 2:30). Or
- to take a direct flight to Graz Airport. Unfortunately the airport is quite small so im not sure what airlines could offer you a direct flight.

=== What the f*#k is Graz??? ===

Graz is the second biggest town in Austria. Its located somewhere in the south-east and it has to offer sth like 250.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (about 50.000 of them are students), a nice town center, 2 breweries (Gösser & Puntigamer), the Schlossberg (i.e. the "mountain" in the middle of the city. lol), the Stadtpark (city park. greeeeeeat for chillout sessions or just lying around drinking and watching fit gals) with its Parkhouse (best "bar" ever), ...

=== The Festival ===

The festival takes place in some locations directly in the center of Graz ([http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#10 locations]). Due to the town's "enormous" size, you can always change location by foot if you want to (it usually takes you sth like 5-10 minutes. Just "Postgarage" is different because its not exactly in the center of the town).

''' Tickets '''

'''''4-Days-Pass including Opening live act:''''' 60EUR

'''''4-Days-Pass (regular):''''' 50EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (pre-sale):''''' 18EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (box office):''''' 20EUR

===[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#7 Programme]===

'''''Live acts including:'''''

Antony Rother, Carl Craig, EZ Rollers, Makossa & Megablast, Parov Stelar, Ragga Twins, Shantel, Shit Disco, Tali, Turntablerocker, Whomadewho, and so on.

'''''DJ Lineup including:'''''

4Hero, Alex Gopher, Aquasky, Ben Mono, Bionic Kid, Derrick May, Digital Mystikz, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Elite Force, Etienne de Crecy, Jazzanova, John Aquaviva, Kenny Larkin, marfloW, Michael Reinboth, Patrick Pulsinger, Plump DJs, Rainer Trüby, Slack Hippie, Stacey Pullen, Stereotyp, Tayo, Uwe Walkner, and many more.

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#201 '''Workshops''']

On one hand there will be the so called "Red Bull Music Academy" (last year's "instructor" was Carl Craig, two years ago it was Marky), on the other hand there is scheduled a VJ workshop (as far as i know with the coldcut visualist).

Check out the exact schedule on the [http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#2 official Springseven homepage].

[[category:Live Events]]

Springseven Graz

2007-04-27T12:52:59Z

Hoozn:

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#195 '''The Spring Festival in Graz (Styria, AUT)'''] celebrates its seventh birthday with a shitload of international DJs and (as usual) cheap ticket prices (especially for you rich english blokes :P ).

'''''Date: Wed. 16-05-2007 to Sun. 20-05-2007'''''

=== How to go there ===

As long as youre a forein spastic genre lover, the easiest way should be:
- to go to Vienna by plane and to take the train from Vienna to Graz (direct connection every 2 hours; travelling time around 2:30). Or
- to take a direct flight to Graz Airport. Unfortunately the airport is quite small so im not sure what airlines could offer you a direct flight.

=== What the f*#k is Graz??? ===

Graz is the second biggest town in Austria. Its located somewhere in the south-east and it has to offer sth like 250.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (about 50.000 of them are students), a nice town center, 2 breweries (Gösser & Puntigamer), the Schlossberg (i.e. the "mountain" in the middle of the city. lol), the Stadtpark (city park. greeeeeeat for chillout sessions or just lying around drinking and watching fit gals) with its Parkhouse (best "bar" ever), ...

=== The Festival ===

The festival takes place in some locations directly in the center of Graz ([http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#10 locations]). Due to the town's "enormous" size, you can always change location by foot if you want to (it usually takes you sth like 5-10 minutes. Just "Postgarage" is different because its not exactly in the center of the town).

''' Tickets '''

'''''4-Days-Pass including Opening live act:''''' 60EUR

'''''4-Days-Pass (regular):''''' 50EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (pre-sale):''''' 18EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (box office):''''' 20EUR

===[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#7 Programme]===

'''''Live acts including:'''''

Antony Rother, Carl Craig, EZ Rollers, Makossa & Megablast, Parov Stelar, Ragga Twins, Shantel, Shit Disco, Tali, Turntablerocker, Whomadewho, and so on.

'''''DJ Lineup including:'''''

4Hero, Alex Gopher, Aquasky, Ben Mono, Bionic Kid, Derrick May, Digital Mystikz, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Elite Force, Etienne de Crecy, Jazzanova, John Aquaviva, Kenny Larkin, marfloW, Michael Reinboth, Patrick Pulsinger, Plump DJs, Rainer Trüby, Slack Hippie, Stacey Pullen, Stereotyp, Tayo, Uwe Walkner, and many more.

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#201 '''Workshops''']

On one hand there will be the so called "Red Bull Music Academy" (last year's "instructor" was Carl Craig, two years ago it was Marky), on the other hand there is scheduled a VJ workshop (as far as i know with the coldcut visualist).

Check out the exact schedule on the [http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#2 official Springseven homepage].

[[category:Live Events]]

Springseven Graz

2007-04-26T16:43:21Z

Hoozn:

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#195 '''The Spring Festival in Graz (Styria, AUT)'''] celebrates its seventh birthday with a shitload of international DJs and (as usual) cheap ticket prices (especially for you rich english blokes :P ).

'''''Date: Wed. 16-05-2007 to Sun. 20-05-2007'''''

=== How to go there ===

As long as youre a forein spastic genre lover, the easiest way should be:
- to go to Vienna by plane and to take the train from Vienna to Graz (direct connection every 2 hours; travelling time around 2:30). Or
- to take a direct flight to Graz Airport. Unfortunately the airport is quite small so im not sure what airlines could offer you a direct flight.

=== What the f*#k is Graz??? ===

Graz is the second biggest town in Austria. Its located somewhere in the south-east and it has to offer sth like 250.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (about 50.000 of them are students), a nice town center, 2 breweries (Gösser & Puntigamer), the Schlossberg (i.e. the "mountain" in the middle of the city. lol), the Stadtpark (city park. greeeeeeat for chillout sessions or just lying around drinking and watching fit gals) with its Parkhouse (best "bar" ever), ...

=== The Festival ===

The festival takes place in some locations directly in the center of Graz ([http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#10 locations]). Due to the town's "enormous" size, you can always change location by foot if you want to (it usually takes you sth like 5-10 minutes. Just "Postgarage" is different because its not exactly in the center of the town).

''' Tickets '''

'''''4-Days-Pass including Opening live act:''''' 60EUR

'''''4-Days-Pass (regular):''''' 50EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (pre-sale):''''' 18EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (box office):''''' 20EUR

===[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#7 Programme]===

'''''Live acts including:'''''

Antony Rother, Carl Craig, EZ Rollers, Makossa & Megablast, Parov Stelar, Ragga Twins, Shantel, Shit Disco, Tali, Turntablerocker, Whomadewho, and so on.

'''''DJ Lineup including:'''''

4Hero, Alex Gopher, Aquasky, Ben Mono, Bionic Kid, Derrick May, Digital Mystikz, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Elite Force, Etienne de Crecy, Jazzanova, John Aquaviva, Kenny Larkin, marfloW, Michael Reinboth, Patrick Pulsinger, Plump DJs, Rainer Trüby, Slack Hippie, Stacey Pullen, Stereotyp, Tayo, Uwe Walkner, and many more.

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#201 '''Workshops''']

Check out the exact schedule on the [http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#2 official Springseven homepage].

[[category:Live Events]]

Springseven Graz

2007-04-26T16:41:47Z

Hoozn:

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#195 '''The Spring Festival in Graz (Styria, AUT)'''] celebrates its seventh birthday with a shitload of international DJs and (as usual) cheap ticket prices (especially for you rich english blokes :P ).

'''''Date: Wed. 16-05-2007 to Sun. 20-05-2007'''''

=== How to go there ===

As long as youre a forein spastic genre lover, the easiest way should be:
- to go to Vienna by plane and to take the train from Vienna to Graz (direct connection every 2 hours; travelling time around 2:30). Or
- to take a direct flight to Graz Airport. Unfortunately the airport is quite small so im not sure what airlines could offer you a direct flight.

=== What the f*#k is Graz??? ===

Graz is the second biggest town in Austria. Its located somewhere in the south-east and it has to offer sth like 250.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (about 50.000 of them are students), a nice town center, 2 breweries (Gösser & Puntigamer), the Schlossberg (i.e. the "mountain" in the middle of the city. lol), the Stadtpark (city park. greeeeeeat for chillout sessions or just lying around drinking and watching fit gals) with its Parkhouse (best "bar" ever), ...

=== The Festival ===

The festival takes place in some locations directly in the center of Graz ([http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#10 locations]). Due to the town's "enormous" size, you can always change location by foot if you want to (it usually takes you sth like 5-10 minutes. Just "Postgarage" is different because its not exactly in the center of the town).

''' Tickets '''

'''''4-Days-Pass including Opening live act:''''' 60EUR

'''''4-Days-Pass (regular):''''' 50EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (pre-sale):''''' 18EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (box office):''''' 20EUR

===[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#7 Programme]===

'''''Live acts including:'''''

Antony Rother, Carl Craig, EZ Rollers, Makossa & Megablast, Parov Stelar, Ragga Twins, Shantel, Shit Disco, Tali, Turntablerocker, Whomadewho, ...

'''''DJ Lineup including:'''''

4Hero, Alex Gopher, Aquasky, Ben Mono, Bionic Kid, Derrick May, Digital Mystikz, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Elite Force, Etienne de Crecy, Jazzanova, John Aquaviva, Kenny Larkin, marfloW, Michael Reinboth, Patrick Pulsinger, Plump DJs, Rainer Trüby, Slack Hippie, Stacey Pullen, Stereotyp, Tayo, Uwe Walkner, ...

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#201 '''Workshops''']

Check out the exact schedule on the [http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#2 official Springseven homepage].

[[category:Live Events]]

Springseven Graz

2007-04-26T16:39:41Z

Hoozn:

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#2 '''The Spring Festival in Graz (Styria, AUT)'''] celebrates its seventh birthday with a shitload of international DJs and (as usual) cheap ticket prices (especially for you rich english blokes :P ).

'''''Date: Wed. 16-05-2007 to Sun. 20-05-2007'''''

=== How to go there ===

As long as youre a forein spastic genre lover, the easiest way should be:
- to go to Vienna by plane and to take the train from Vienna to Graz (direct connection every 2 hours; travelling time around 2:30). Or
- to take a direct flight to Graz Airport. Unfortunately the airport is quite small so im not sure what airlines could offer you a direct flight.

=== What the f*#k is Graz??? ===

Graz is the second biggest town in Austria. Its located somewhere in the south-east and it has to offer sth like 250.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (about 50.000 of them are students), a nice town center, 2 breweries (Gösser & Puntigamer), the Schlossberg (i.e. the "mountain" in the middle of the city. lol), the Stadtpark (city park. greeeeeeat for chillout sessions or just lying around drinking and watching fit gals) with its Parkhouse (best "bar" ever), ...

=== The Festival ===

The festival takes place in some locations directly in the center of Graz ([http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#10 locations]). Due to the town's "enormous" size, you can always change location by foot if you want to (it usually takes you sth like 5-10 minutes. Just "Postgarage" is different because its not exactly in the center of the town).

''' Tickets '''

'''''4-Days-Pass including Opening live act:''''' 60EUR

'''''4-Days-Pass (regular):''''' 50EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (pre-sale):''''' 18EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (box office):''''' 20EUR

===[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#7 Programme]===

'''''Live acts including:'''''

Antony Rother, Carl Craig, EZ Rollers, Makossa & Megablast, Parov Stelar, Ragga Twins, Shantel, Shit Disco, Tali, Turntablerocker, Whomadewho, ...

'''''DJ Lineup including:'''''

4Hero, Alex Gopher, Aquasky, Ben Mono, Bionic Kid, Derrick May, Digital Mystikz, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Elite Force, Etienne de Crecy, Jazzanova, John Aquaviva, Kenny Larkin, marfloW, Michael Reinboth, Patrick Pulsinger, Plump DJs, Rainer Trüby, Slack Hippie, Stacey Pullen, Stereotyp, Tayo, Uwe Walkner, ...

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#201 '''Workshops''']

Check out the exact schedule on the [http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#2 official Springseven homepage].

[[category:Live Events]]

Springseven Graz

2007-04-26T16:34:47Z

Hoozn:

[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#2 '''The Spring Festival in Graz (Styria, AUT)'''] celebrates its seventh birthday with a shitload of international DJs and (as usual) cheap ticket prices (especially for you rich english blokes :P ).

'''''Date: Wed. 16-05-2007 to Sun. 20-05-2007'''''

=== How to go there ===

As long as youre a forein spastic genre lover, the easiest way should be:
- to go to Vienna by plane and to take the train from Vienna to Graz (direct connection every 2 hours; travelling time around 2:30). Or
- to take a direct flight to Graz Airport. Unfortunately the airport is quite small so im not sure what airlines could offer you a direct flight.

=== What the f*#k is Graz??? ===

Graz is the second biggest town in Austria. Its located somewhere in the south-east and it has to offer sth like 250.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (about 50.000 of them are students), a nice town center, 2 breweries (Gösser & Puntigamer), the Schlossberg (i.e. the "mountain" in the middle of the city. lol), the Stadtpark (city park. greeeeeeat for chillout sessions or just lying around drinking and watching fit gals) with its Parkhouse (best "bar" ever), ...

=== The Festival ===

The festival takes place in some locations directly in the center of Graz. Due to the town's "enormous" size, you can always change location by foot if you want to (it usually takes you sth like 5-10 minutes. Just "Postgarage" is different because its not exactly in the center of the town).

''' Tickets '''

'''''4-Days-Pass including Opening live act:''''' 60EUR

'''''4-Days-Pass (regular):''''' 50EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (pre-sale):''''' 18EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (box office):''''' 20EUR

===[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#7 Programme]===

'''''Live acts including:'''''

Antony Rother, Carl Craig, EZ Rollers, Makossa & Megablast, Parov Stelar, Ragga Twins, Shantel, Shit Disco, Tali, Turntablerocker, Whomadewho, ...

'''''DJ Lineup including:'''''

4Hero, Alex Gopher, Aquasky, Ben Mono, Bionic Kid, Derrick May, Digital Mystikz, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Elite Force, Etienne de Crecy, Jazzanova, John Aquaviva, Kenny Larkin, marfloW, Michael Reinboth, Patrick Pulsinger, Plump DJs, Rainer Trüby, Slack Hippie, Stacey Pullen, Stereotyp, Tayo, Uwe Walkner, ...

Check out the exact schedule on the official Springseven homepage.

[[category:Live Events]]

Springseven Graz

2007-04-26T11:28:27Z

Hoozn:

''''The Spring Festival in Graz (Styria, AUT)'''' celebrates its seventh birthday with a shitload of international DJs and (as usual) cheap ticket prices (especially for you rich english blokes :P ).

'''''Date: Wed. 16-05-2007 to Sun. 20-05-2007'''''

=== How to go there ===

As long as youre a forein spastic genre lover, the easiest way should be:
- to go to Vienna by plane and to take the train from Vienna to Graz (direct connection every 2 hours; travelling time around 2:30). Or
- to take a direct flight to Graz Airport. Unfortunately the airport is quite small so im not sure what airlines could offer you a direct flight.

=== What the f*#k is Graz??? ===

Graz is the second biggest town in Austria. Its located somewhere in the south-east and it has to offer sth like 250.000 to 300.000 inhabitants (about 50.000 of them are students), a nice town center, 2 breweries (Gösser & Puntigamer), the Schlossberg (i.e. the "mountain" in the middle of the city. lol), the Stadtpark (city park. greeeeeeat for chillout sessions or just lying around drinking and watching fit gals) with its Parkhouse (best "bar" ever), ...

=== The Festival ===

The festival takes place in some locations directly in the center of Graz. Due to the town's "enormous" size, you can always change location by foot if you want to (it usually takes you sth like 5-10 minutes. Just "Postgarage" is different because its not exactly in the center of the town).

''' Tickets '''

'''''4-Days-Pass including Opening live act:''''' 60EUR

'''''4-Days-Pass (regular):''''' 50EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (pre-sale):''''' 18EUR

'''''1-Day-Pass (box office):''''' 20EUR

===[http://www.springfestival.at/springseven/#7 Programme]===

'''''Live acts including:'''''

Antony Rother, Carl Craig, EZ Rollers, Makossa & Megablast, Parov Stelar, Shantel, Shit Disco, Tali, Turntablerocker, Whomadewho

'''''DJ Lineup including:'''''

4Hero, Alex Gopher, Aquasky, Ben Mono, Bionic Kid, Derrick May, Digital Mystikz, DJ Grandmaster Flash, Elite Force, Etienne de Crecy, Jazzanova, John Aquaviva, Kenny Larkin, marfloW, Michael Reinboth, Patrick Pulsinger, Plump DJs, Rainer Trüby, Slack Hippie

Check out the exact schedule on the official Springseven homepage.

[[category:Live Events]]

Springseven Graz

2007-04-26T11:15:48Z

Hoozn:

Springseven Graz

2007-04-26T11:09:29Z

Hoozn:

Springseven Graz

2007-04-26T10:30:30Z

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TMBisms

2007-03-18T19:42:52Z

Hoozn:

Vienna

2007-03-18T17:45:15Z

Hoozn:

= Wien (Vienna / AUT) =

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country.
It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

[[Image:Wienaustria.png|Vienna]]
[[Image:Wienbezirke.jpg|200px]]

== How to get there? ==

=== By car ===
Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.
=== By train ===
[http://www.oebb.at/vip8/oebb/en/index.jsp ÖBB] (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.
===By plane ===
[http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart Vienna's airport] is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

== Public transport ==
In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines.
[http://www.vor.at/ Online Schedule]
=== Metro ===
In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This [http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/ unofficial metro system homepage] contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.
=== Bus/Tram ===
To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) .
At night, there are several night buses, the so called [http://www.wienerlinien.at/wl/wlinien/jsp/content/item_detail.jsp?ctt=2&chnid=-1073753106&prgid=1073755252&rid=-1073753101&oid=1073756730&BV_SessionID=@@@@0376862557.1172947814@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddkdlmfdjkcfngcfkmdfhjdfkn.0 Nightline], whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.
=== Signs ===
Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

[[Image:Wien_U-bahn.jpg|100px]]
[[Image:Wientramhaltestelle.jpg|200px]]
[[Image:Wien_bus.jpg|150px]]
[[Image:Wien_S-Bahn_Haltestelle.jpg]]
== Daylife ==

=== Shopping ===
For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it.
record stores:
=== Chill-out areas ===

== Nightlife ==

=== Clubs ===
<big>'''FLEX'''</big>[http://www.flex.at/] is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening.
Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR depending on when you arrive there, a bit more expensive when hosting live events or special guests; usually free entry after 3:00am except on days with special events; pint of beer around 3EUR, FREE SODA WATER at the bar!)

'''Programme'''

Flex opens doors at around 06:00pm (the so called "Heuriger" i.e. the outdoor part where you can chill in the sun or have a sightseeing-break), the club itself usually opens at or around 09:00pm (in case of concerts a bit earlier but youll find it in the programme). Closing hours for the outer part are around 03:00am (changes from day to day), the party inside usually goes on until its over (exact time depends on bouncers/DJs/organiser but is usually between 05:00am and 06:00am)

Monday: DubClub (Dub)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Alway changing (Guest DJs/London Calling Special/Future Beatz/Live Acts/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

<big>'''FLUC'''</big>[[http://www.fluc.at/]] is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive. Usually loads of students/"artists"/and so on there.

'''Programme'''

FLUC Wanne's opening time is around 10:00pm, FLUC should open a bit earlier, but im not quite sure. Always changing programme (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

<big>'''WUK'''</big>[[http://www.wuk.at/index.php/wuk/english/0/english.html]] is some sort of cultural centre, so it does not only host different music events but it also provides some space for different kinds of artistic exhibitions and rooms where workshops take place. The musical spectre does reach from hip hop events to jungle parties and ska punk concerts. WUK is located west of the town centre, you can go there either by metro U6 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper) or by tram 40, 41 and 42 (Währinger Straße-Volksoper). Entrance fee is usually quite low but depends on the concert/party.

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Due to the fact that WUK is a cultural centre there are no regular events. You have to check their website in order to get information. There you'll also find some info about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

<big>'''CAFÉ LEOPOLD'''</big>[[http://www.cafe-leopold.at/]] is a café directly inside MQ (Museumsquartier, see Daylife/Chill-Out Areas for more information). In the daytime it is a regular and quite nice café, but everyday after 10:00pm the tables were put away so that you get some free space as dancefloor and local DJs start playing "Viennese Sound" (Dub, Nu-Jazz, Funky House, Downtempo,...). There is also a second room right besides the café where mostly fridays and saturdays concerts and "bigger" events take place. You'll reach Café Leopold by metro U2 (Museumsquartier or Volkstheater) and U3 (Volkstheater), tram 49 (Burggasse) and bus 2A (Museumsquartier, Burgtheater or Königsklostergasse). Entrance fee is on weekdays sth like 5EUR, Fri/Sat usually more due to the events. Free entrance within the small hours. Drinks arent that expensive and should cost about the same as in the daytime, i.e. about 3.50EUR for a pint of beer.

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Open Sun-Wed 10:00am to 02:00am, Thu-Sat 10:00am to 04:00am. The café is open Mon-Sun and hosts local DJs, the "Clubbing part" usually hosts events on Fri/Sat. Once again, you gotta check the website for further information.

<big>'''Camera'''</big>

<big>'''Donau'''</big>

<big>'''Passage'''</big>

<big>'''U4'''</big>

<big>'''Volksgarten'''</big>

<big>'''Wirr'''</big>
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