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Steilhang,
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Positive aspect; by the end of the night I was sure I am not, and never will be, gay!
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First effort put you off for life?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Peeves:
1. Crucifixes
- If I want religious insignia in my room, I'll bring my own or live in a bloody monastery.
2. The way the beds are made
- What's with the pointy pillows?! What's more, during my first trip to Austria, at age 10, I slept under a huge, I mean THICK down duvet. Whenever I don't get one, I'm disappointed. 
Favourites (not ski-related):
1. The houses
2. Eating and drinking
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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dudes
O dear.
I wondered how long this thread would last
until some one who owned a gaff in France turned up
before the usual French-supporting started
Not long, as it turned out. How drearily predictable
ok bye
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1. It's where Hitler was born.
2. Smoking in bars.
3. Eating nothing but the lowest quality sausages *in the known universe* for an entire week.
These are the best 3 things about Austria.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Voice of Treason, wrong yet again. there is no French supporting in this thread. You need to read more carefully, old chap.
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First effort put you off for life?
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T Bar, 
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1 for the plus: Guuuuuullaaaaaasschuuuuuuupe! mit Brot.
1 for the Neg: really struggling... can be a little too warm even mid-season....sometimes....?
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pam w,
sweet cheeks
first whiff of anything anti France
and you are there with your tricolor
on every single thread ever on snowheads
go and check
so predictable
no wonder Marie Antoinette did not fit in
au revoir
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2 Things wrong with Austrian skiing:-
1. Too many good mountain restaurants and bars in town to "slip on a banana skin" in, and get a bad head for the next morning  ............and seriously
2. (Not a criticism just a wish really)......That Innsbruck airport would open up more to non TO flights, have to use Munich and Zurich which is a chew, but worth the travel hassle........still infinitely better than the Bourg St Maurice/ Moutiers roads nightmare for getting up to Espace Killy though.
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But its often a very different story up on the hill.Poor and indifferent service,poor quality of food and scant regard for the customer(unless they happen to be French)
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I actually find this strangely alluring and amusing. But I've always been a bit weird 
TBH, as I rule I only do packed lunch on the hill, so I avoid that problem. We always joke about the gaelic shrug, whenever you ask a less than straightforward question. Again though it has a certain charm and amusement.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The Austrians are as rude as anything, and gibber away in their incomprehensible language that sounds like Dutch. I've never felt like killing somebody in a lift queue in France; in Austria last week however I thought they were dreadful - and then an Austrian ski instructor told me to leave a queue because I'd pushed in (which I hadn't).
Whilst not a smoker, I like it that the thought police have not stopped smoking in Austria. We ban too much.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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James the Last, I don't find the French or the Austrians any ruder than us Brits. Certainly far nicer than all that insincere "Y'all have a nice day now" pap from accross the pond 
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clarky999 wrote:
Fattes13 wrote:
Not enough challenging terrain outside of the Allberg
You for real??
Just what I thought too!
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Yep, allot of the resorts have to little verticle and limited proper challanging off piste and the ones that do tend to be in pockets. In comparison to say Chamonix, Porte Du Soleil, Engelberg/Andermatt. Maybe I was just looking in the wrong place.
*Mayrhofen is one of my fav resorts ever but again limited off piste. You can always nip down the valley but bit of an effort and I am LAZY
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You know it makes sense.
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Worst 2 things about Austrian Skiing :
1) S.I.P (Stool Inspection Platforms)
2) Occasional reluctance to serve water on the table.
Best 2 things about Austrian Skiing :
1) Short transfers
2) Everything else
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Church Bells!!  That's nothing compared to any village, town or city in many muslim countries where prayers are blasted out on loud speakers from minarets- count yourselves lucky that church bells is all you hear!
I am sucker for Germknödel, my ski trip isn't the same without one-but one's enough!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hmmm, not a big fan. Another Kaiserschmarren fan here
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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clarky999 wrote:
Fattes13 wrote:
Not enough challenging terrain outside of the Allberg
You for real??
Just what I thought too!
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Yep, allot of the resorts have to little verticle and limited proper challanging off piste and the ones that do tend to be in pockets. In comparison to say Chamonix, Porte Du Soleil, Engelberg/Andermatt. Maybe I was just looking in the wrong place.
*Mayrhofen is one of my fav resorts ever but again limited off piste. You can always nip down the valley but bit of an effort and I am LAZY |
Yep, you were 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Fattes13,
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Not enough challenging terrain outside of the Allberg
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What about Krippenstein?
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Bar bouncing, attractive girls serving, ........., I would struck by the thought that apart from the Austrians and Germans, you could have been on a night out in Burnley.
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Really, attractive girls serving in Burnley? I beg to differ.......
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Had a delicious burger n fries at Unkle Tom's kabin on the mountain in Wagrain. Great grub.
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Sitzpinkel!
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Staying remarkably on topic for page two
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| galpinos wrote: |
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Bar bouncing, attractive girls serving, ........., I would struck by the thought that apart from the Austrians and Germans, you could have been on a night out in Burnley.
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Really, attractive girls serving in Burnley? I beg to differ....... |
Indeed not an immediate comparison I would have considered!
I like church bells (reminds me of the Cotswolds!)
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For me:
1. Non-stop Tirolpop
I've not adverse to a bit of Pferd Rote but not a gazillions times in the space of a couple of hrs
2. The white, booblike dumplings with the fag ash topping
Could be connected to bertie basset's pet hate
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| Church Bells!! That's nothing compared to any village, town or city in many muslim countries where prayers are blasted out on loud speakers from minarets- count yourselves lucky that church bells is all you hear!! |
I understand the skiing is somewhat limited in such places, too!!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I can't think of any negatives, apart from I've found it to be less ski-in ski-out. The smoking didn't bother me when I was a smoker but it would do now.
Other than that; awesome skiing, nice food, crazy Euro-pop, tons of beer, what's not to like?
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1. Another vote for Tiroler Grostl (but I've just lived on ribs at lunch in Soll, yum.)
2. It's not France (Sorry, I like France and the French but not their ski hutches, sorry, rooms and their appalling beer prices).
Austrian twins are good. We had memory foam mattresses in B & B in Soll, I could thrash about to my heart's content without waking the missus. My snoring on the other hand...
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You know it makes sense.
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It's not France (Sorry, I like France and the French but not their ski hutches, sorry, rooms and their appalling beer prices
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+1 Service culture in French resorts 1/5, Austria 5/5.
Ghost Dog,
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Austrian twins are good
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Are they like the ones on Big Brother?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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1. Tree skiing
2. Great huts for lunch on day tours
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Poster: A snowHead
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Is smoking in public places like bars still allowed or not?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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cc_7up, it is still allowed but more and more places are offering non-smoking sections. I have noticed that the amount of smoke-filled fuggy places has decreased dramatically as the landlords/owners realise that they are losing out to smoke-free places.
You used to see a lot of people walking into places, taking a sniff and very deliberately walking out again. The owners have wised-up and installed better extractor systems and also where possible made a non-smoking area. In the beginning these used to be small and you had to walk through the smoking zone to get to them, but I have noticed that more and more bars are completely non-smoking or the non-smoker area is the largest.
I quite like the non-draconian laws the Austrians have introduced, no-one is demonised because they smoke. And the proportion of non-smokers to smokers is gradually increasing as well.
zammo, you dislike those two things? 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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For me:
1. Non-stop Tirolpop
I've not adverse to a bit of Pferd Rote but not a gazillions times in the space of a couple of hrs
2. The white, booblike dumplings with the fag ash topping
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What?? Germknoedels are great, especially with hot 'vannilsauce!'
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"Y'all have a nice day now" pap from accross the pond
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I've never heard anyone say "Y'all" at a ski resort in US. That's a southern thing!!
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1) S.I.P (Stool Inspection Platforms)
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This is one of my favorite things about Austria. Great conversation starter!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Here's a radical viewpoint; I like skiing in both Austria and France. Better on-mountain toilet facilities in Austria, but lunch is more enjoyable in France. Apres more lively in Austria, but the dreadful music gets tired after about 10 minutes, and utterly unbearable after 20. Swings and roundabouts, innit.
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Apres more lively in Austria, but the dreadful music gets tired after about 10 minutes, and utterly unbearable after 20
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Drink through it my boy
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Frosty the Snowman, oh I do my friend, I do...
Then wake up the next morning in a horrible fog of self-hate for climbing on the table and swinging my t-shirt above my head.
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Dr John, Musicwise it sounds like you need a few jagertees to deaden the senses, though it doesn't worry me-when in Rome and all that.
Next time you are in Austria head for the Hospiz Alm in St Christoph, lunch is unforgettable.
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Good point - The idea of naked saunas
Bad Point - the people who use naked saunas
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| Here's a radical viewpoint; I like skiing in both Austria and France. Better on-mountain toilet facilities in Austria, but lunch is more enjoyable in France. Apres more lively in Austria, but the dreadful music gets tired after about 10 minutes, and utterly unbearable after 20. Swings and roundabouts, innit. |
A sensible post, at last
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