Sometimes cultures aren't as different as you might think. During a holiday weekend in Austria my…read morefriend took me here for ny first night in the country. We pull ip to the parking lot around midnight and it's packed. They have guys directing traffic around the parking lot. We circle, park and get in. It is wall to wall people. One thing i do realize is there's no cover. Ky friend said Austrians would never go for that. Cool. There's a coffee and cigarettes vending machine in the main lobby with a coat check. Ok that's different. But the basic principal of people getting their drink on, meeting the opposite sex and listening to loud music is no different to say a bar in Los Gatos in California. Crazy. Apparently the folks who own this own a catering group and a few other food industry businesses. They discovered it was an easy way to make money in nightlife since there's not enough of it in the area and bars like this are born. So so drinks, dated American music, and di, lights somehow come together and create a lively crazy atmosphere. Who knew Dornbirn wanted to party all the time. A good example of supplying a demand for going out.

Oh, hai, Yelp's in Austria now? Word. When I lived in Bad…read moreReichenhall, heading over to Austria was no big thing-- 30 minutes in a car or bus, and there we were! So, on many a Friday night, a group of 16 year-olds eager to drink and dance headed to the Nachtschicht. (I think our bus route took us by Hitler's childhood home, but that's not really relevant-- just interesting). The Nachtschicht used to be 16+ and had a pool with blow up alligators. You could get a bucket of sangria with huge straws, and we downed those really fast. Many a good drunken night was had here!