Austrian Travel Blogger Meet-up in Salzburg

Winter starts with the first flakes of snow in Salzburg. A cosy atmosphere wraps us up, supported by the chants of Christmas carols from the local Christmas markets. As travel bloggers, we feel inspired …  beer, travel tales & blogging. Thoughts, ideas, opinions and emotions are being “liked”, “shared”, “tweeted” and “posted” parallel to our real-time discussions. I wonder whether our local “Salzburg Beer Guide“, Martina Gyuroka, does have the faintest idea that she’s already a star on Twitter, Facebook & Co.? Her stories about Mozart, beer and ancient city life in Salzburg continue to amuse and inform us during the three-hour city walk (#salzburg #bierwanderung #beer).

“Hope” in the park of Hotel St. Virgil: € 1.300,- per sqaure metre in the city of Salzburg is a lot of money to build a house! Staying at a hotel is not necessarily that expensive 😉 Well worth the visit.

Martina Gyuroka runs her own guiding website at www.salzburg-bierguide.at: Check it out in case you want to know more about visiting the old town of Salzburg: History is alive with the art of local storytelling!

In the “city of Mozart” I learn that the original Salzburg Mozartkugel is sold over 4.000 times a day in this beautiful silver-blue wrapping. Every tour needs to end here I vow, creating delicious chocolate souvenirs.

On tour with my fellow Austrian travel bloggers during the first national meet-up (including Lea, Bernadette, Gudrun, Franz, Doris, Andreas, Albert, Gerhard and Birgit Weszelka from Salzburg Tourism), we stop and unwind at the cosy, well-heated beer tavern “Bärenwirt“. Here, we gather to discuss a central question: What is it we want to achieve as a (national) team?

Travel Bloggers step up for being recognised as part of traditional travel media – “also” and above all in Austria.

Despite all the current discussion about “travel bloggers versus traditional journalists”, we have always seen a positive outcome to any press trip where bloggers and journalists meet. Earlier this year, we have started a network named www.reiseblogger.at. The aim was to gather all the national travel bloggers in Austria. How and whether this website will be run in the future and what kind of information will be disseminated there, is part of what we came to discuss during our 1st Austrian Travel Blogger Meet-up in the city of Salzburg & Salzburger Land. Stay tuned!

Cosy get-together: Travel bloggers from all over the country gather in the city of Salzburg (here at Zwettler Brauhaus near the central city square) in order to network and meet each other in person for the first time.

During our exploration of the city of Salzburg, we even realize there is an ice skating rink right in the city centre. Enjoy your Glühwein first or after? Perhaps a tricky quest when aiming for the ice ..

Season’s greetings: Christmas atmosphere in the city of Salzburg. In case you get too cold out in the snow, a well-heated Austrian “Stube” (tavern) is never far (including, of course, a great variety of home-grown beer!).