10 things that surprised me in Vienna 

I love how your points are random without being too generic and with an angle of importance. Very cool 🙂

das mit den Desserts bekommen wir noch hin ;) Apfelstrudel: der auf dem Foto sieht auch nicht gut aus und bei meinen Eltern/Großeltern isst man den auch nicht mit Vanillesoße sondern pur 🤣 und es gehörn zwar schon genug Äpfel rein, aber nicht so viele. ein guter Apfelstrudel ist dünn und fein und mit Staubzucker :) und so einen Apfelkuchen wie du ihn aus Polen zeigst gibt es bei uns auch - heißt glaub ich auch Apfelkuchen Probier mal Bananenschnitten, Raffaelloschnitten, Himbeerschnitten, Kardinalschnitten (haha ich bin offenbar Schnittenfan) - ist aber alles ziemlich süß ... und Marmorkuchen!

Another great video.

I'm a cloud engineer moving to Vienna from Sydney Australia possibly mid January with a job offer, I watched all your Videos and I must say your videos are really helpful and informative, thank you! Hope we can catch up sometime next year! :)

LOL, just watched an american tourist channel who praised austrian desserts because they're not too sweet...so it might depend on the perspective! but yes, even many Austrians will agree that Sachertorte is overrated, Kardinalschnitte is imho better, it has various consistencies in the layers and also not too dry (but still very sweet)

Interesting video...

I feel like only tourists eat Sacher Torte anyway... The best Austrian chocolate cake imo is called "Mohr im Hemd", bad name, but very nice desert. It´s a hot chocolate/nut cake (technically pudding, but it tastes like cake), served with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream. If done right, it´s not too sweet, very chocolaty and juicy, definitely worth a try, if you see it on a menu. It´s sometimes named something less offensive nowadays, like "Schokokuchen mit Schlagobers".

Worked in vienna for a little over 10 years over 10 years ago. (am from the south of austria myself) The parking thing hasn't changed it seems. Back then i found an affordable underground parking lot that was spacious by luck for the first two years, but i had to walk there for 5 minutes each time i wanted to use my car. After moving, i had an underground parking space right below the house my (small) apartment was in. (But as you said, the entrance was pretty narrow and the walls showed that not everyone was as carefull as me driving in and out.) The deserts part surprised me a bit. I mean yes, the Sacher Torte from Sacher is pretty dry and too sweet for me too. (needsa fair amount of unsweetened whipped cream to compliment it.) But Krapfen? The only gripe i have is that most have too much jam in them for my taste. I prefer Strauben (same dough, but rectangular and wihtout any jam) or Krapfen with vanilla or chocolade filling. Maybe what the viennese call Topfengolatschen is more your case. (In the rest of austria its more likely to find it as Topfentascherl) They can be made out of "puffpastry" (flaky pastry?) or a yeast dough. And have a filling made of something the translater tells me is called Twaróg in polish. (so it's a bit sweet and a tiny bit sour) And the way you described you would want a krapfen to be makes me think you could like a "Germteig Topfengolatsche". (if you are lucky they haven't already put sugar on it.)

I may be a bit late but anyway, regarding the desserts you really have to know where to get them (or know some austrian Omi who will make them for you...). Sachertorte can be really moist and well balanced but the original tastes like Schuhsohle, its disgusting and overpriced, go to Aida. Apfelstrudel is also very hit and miss, i dont like a lot of the restaurant options but try to make it at home, its easy and much better. Good Krapfen are also quite hard to find (although i love anything deep fried so i also like the mid tier options), Felber is alright but again, there is hardly anything easier to make than Krapfen so just try it. I would also add Kaiserschmarren to the list, at most restaurants its boring and tastes a lot like eggs, you can literally make pancake dough and put a lot of it into a pan, make it like a pancake but really thick, then just rip it apart and voila, enjoy with Apfelmus. I would say that for any famous sweet dish you really have to know where to get it because the well known cafes and restaurants are either overpriced or not that good. LG

Hi Tomasz. Good video. Thinking of moving to Vienna myself. Im wondering - what is your level of speaking german? Is it needed in IT jobs in Vienna? I have basic A2 level in german but I am aware the Austrian german is quite diffrent from the German-german.. ;)

Registration of a car was a complete mess for us.... Though, the primary reason was that no one seemed to be able to tell me what to do. Contacted insurance, they told me to register the car with the manufacturer. Did that and contacted insurance company again and they told me they need me to check with a car mechanic... Didn't help that ÖAMTC did a mistake during the check so I had to go back again... Felt like a headless chicken running around. 😂 Though, now when I know all the steps it is pretty straight forward. 😅

Vienna is great in general, but nowhere is perfect. A few drawbacks in my opinion: 1) It is indeed very behind when it comes to IT, particularly cashless payments. Many cafés, bars and restaurants, hairdressers etc. still insist on cash only payments. 2)Austria is very bureaucratic, everything requires paperwork. 3) Vienna is the only place I’ve ever lived where people can live in the center of a capital city and still expect the peace and quiet of a country village. People will call the police if there is a peep out of your apartment after 10pm, without coming to warn you first. 4)Every protest in Austria seems to happen at the weekend in the first district of Vienna, which is pretty annoying for those of us who live here. Apart from that, it’s pretty wonderful.

das mit dem essen scheint eine Sache zusein die von der Art wie man aufgewachsen ist! endlich in Rente hab ich mich aufgemacht CZ und polen und das Baltikum zu besichtigen. die cz Küche hat die Wiener Küche stark geprägt ,auch die topfengolatsche, die wiener Sachertorte ist einfach nicht meines!(touristenfutter).doch Brot und Gebäck ist in CZ+Polen für mich eine Katastrophe , Mehlspeisen nicht schlecht aber etwas langweilig. dafür liebe ich die (kleineren Städte) auch die Menschen und das man abseits der Zentren noch sehr den "ostblock" sieht! im Mai geht's nach osterode...darauf freu ich mich schon!

i have been in Vienna 2 times and Salzburg and moonlake last week love it specially food w schnitzel and sacher torte favorite also love austrians and also architecture landscape im swiss.of nudity i did not see noting wanting to try out a nude beach lol is it mixed also girls women or i may only see real wieners you get it wiener sausage lol.

Bro. Just dont drive a car in vienna... public transport is great. We dont want car traffic!!!

und bezüglich parken: es soll auch nicht einfach sein zu parken. Wien möchte immer weiter weg von den Autos, Wjen möchte eine grüne Öffi-, Fußgänger- und Radfahrerstadt werden. Das wird sich also in Zukunft auch nicht verbessern (und ich persönlich finde das auch gut so)....

nice video... a couple of things many foreigners who move to austria are not aware of...simply because they only know vienna * sacher torte...the better, is at demel, where the origional recipee was created but then "taken"... however the best sacher torte is from personal family recipees... my mother's sacher was always in demand and asked for in all the countries we lived in. *apfel strudel is overated but there are amazing apple cakes and other austrian cakes from other regions in austria ~ vienna is not all of austria *please note that 99% of topless or nude people at public swimming places are older people who are still living in a 1970's time warp... its not cool anymore nor fashionable nobody cares to human jelly bits wobblying on a sunny beach day...😂

I moved from Upper Austria to Vienna and it's baffling to me how much advertisement the Sachertorte gets in Vienna. Absolutely overrated and one of the least interesting cakes you can get in Austria.

You should NOT drive in Vienna but use the public transport system. This is a city conscious of the environment. Cars are the main producers of toxic CO2 in the atmosphere. If you want your children to be able to breathe normally in 50 years' time, you will drive your car for visits to Poland, but not in town.