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AUSTRIA: Wiener Eistraum - a paradise for scaters

Wiener Eistraum is an annual event - all of the square between the Burgtheater and Rathaus / Town Hall will be dedicated as a large place for scating. Long slopes will lead you also through the park, there is music playing outside and also inside various restaurant-tents.

This year it started Jan. 25th
09.00a.m.-04.00p.m. you pay 3,50 / children 2,50 / families 8,50
04.00p.m.-11.00p.m. the prices are : 5,00 / 4,00 / 13,- Euros

Equipment: Bring your own equipment or simply rent it there against a small fee. Even the toilets may be reached with your scates on !!
The fee for renting a pair of scating-shoes was 6 Euros in 2006 (3,80 Euros for children)

Directions: Wiener Eistraum is always between Burgtheater and Rathaus/Townhall. Get there by tram #1 or #2.

Theme: Other

Website: http://www.wienereistraum.com

Kieler Woche - Europe's largest sailing-event

Kieler Woche is the biggest annual sailing-event of Europe and it is traditionally held in June. It includes a parade of old windyammers and sailingships of all sizes. In Kiel-Holtenau, east of the locks of Kielcanal / Nord-Ostsee-Kanal you will see many of these old windyammers docked throughout the year and you will be able to walk along that pier freely and without restrictions like I did in order to take these pics.

Equipment: See the program of Kieler Woche here in english
and for the german program click on the link below

Directions: Kiel is a port-town on the Baltic Sea, in the north of Germany !

Theme: Boating/Sailing

Website: http://www.kieler-woche.de/

Paragliding in Switzerland

Switzerland is a great place to go Paragliding, even when you have never done it before. There are many young pilots waiting for "victims" for a tandem-flight, you may book such flights in advance or simply go to the top of a mountain like Schiltorn, Brienzer Rothorn and many others and search for a pilot there - when you are lucky and maybe also not in the high season you may decide on top of the mountain, if you dare to fly down with one of the pilots. The pilot on my pictures was waiting 2 hours in vain before he decided to fly down alone. In fact he was not only going downwards, BUT was able to find a perfect wind to take him UP-wards several hundred meters, before he sailed down to the valley...

200 sfr / 140 Euros is the tandem-flight down from Rothorn
from Schilthorn : 270,- sfr / from Muerren : 160,- sfr

Equipment: The equipment is given by the pilot - they always have a large rucksack with all necessary equipments
Some links :
www.paragliding-interlaken.ch
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www.swiss-paragliding.ch
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www.paragliding365.com

Directions: The pilots are waiting about halfway between the restaurant and the peak of Rothorn - you may recognize them by their equipment !

Theme: Extreme Sports

Website: http://www.paragliding365.com/index-p-flightarea_nearby_all_118.html