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Originally Posted by Skybird
Graz would be the one place/city I would be most interested in finding out about. And the countryside around Salzburg (outside tourist season, if Salzburg even has a non-tpourist season...). My Dad was in SB several times when they played the classics festivals there, he said it was beautiful countryside, and very kind people, but overcrowded, due to the tourists.
I know the area between Bad Reichenhall and Salzburg from earlier holidays. Very beautiful place to live, both on the German and Austrian side of the border.
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I had the pleasure of guarding one of Graz's more interesting features: the famous Graz Armory, left completely intact from the Moslem Turk's last invasion,(circa 1520's) was brought to the museum in San Francisco and opened by hometown hero Arnold Swartzenegger himself; fascinating armor exhibit! Rows of pikes and everyday armor for everyday Grazians defending their city from the Moslem terror of the day. Colin Farrel actually wears the correct 'closed' helmet from the era and the armory in the movie, 'The New World' and a similar helmet was found in a garbage dump in a early Virginia plantation garbage(National Geographic) dump that had been massacred by Powhaten Indians. Good Austrian military gear was widely marketed, even back then.
