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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at.

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Speaker 2: Be Our travel corresponding is Mike Yardley. He's probably feeling

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Speaker 2: pretty good this morning. I reckon, Marke, it's only a hunch,

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Speaker 2: But did you ever think you would see James O'Connor

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Speaker 2: standing up and slotting a winning penalty give the Crusaders

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Speaker 2: and went over the Blues.

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Speaker 3: We all love James O'Connor.

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Speaker 2: We love Jose O'Connor. Do you know I've loved the

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Speaker 2: more season. I've loved the more season he's slotted right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but it's still it's a funny old world, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: You're speaking of funny old will Jack. I'm in the

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Speaker 3: half big box hesh person at the moment, and it's

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Speaker 3: like like Friday here. The shopping is just insatiable. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: pilling out of mic teen and Rebels, Sports and Briscoes

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Speaker 3: and oh my goodness, crazy.

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Speaker 2: No. I mean ash Vegas is. And I say this

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Speaker 2: as you know, it's someone who's spent a lot of

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Speaker 2: time in as Vegas over the years, given my my

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Speaker 2: dad being brought up there, my grandparents lived there and

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Speaker 2: all that. Ash Vegas has had, I reckon a transformation

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Speaker 2: greater than almost any other New Zealand town over the

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Speaker 2: last few years. And it's probably well, it's probably as

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Speaker 2: a result of some of the big dairy conversions and

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Speaker 2: I think some of the some of the dairy prices

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Speaker 2: as of late, yeah, been relatively agreeable. So if there's

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Speaker 2: one sector in our economy that might be doing okay

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Speaker 2: at the moment, it is probably a sector that's going

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Speaker 2: to be impacting things on the retail scene in Ashburg,

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Speaker 2: so you go. I think they've got that great sort

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Speaker 2: of art center and things now too. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I've been hates on a lot of the like civic amenities. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a really good place to live.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've always loved that part of the world. Well,

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Speaker 2: from from osh Vegas to Vienna two cultural Michas this

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Speaker 2: morning and whilstzing through Vienna. It is one of those

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Speaker 2: places of the world that is absolutely synonymous with coffee shops.

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Speaker 3: Right, totally. Yeah, it's a religion, Jack. I've actually got

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Speaker 3: two and a half thousand cafes and coffee shops in Vienna.

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Speaker 3: That's the old school coffee shops, all marble and velvet

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Speaker 3: that I think really express the city's soul. So interestingly

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Speaker 3: the menus they still with about twenty types of coffee.

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Speaker 3: The top seller in Vienna is a Mallage, which is

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Speaker 3: sort of like a cappuccino and it's an espresso with

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Speaker 3: steam's frothy milk. Another big cellar ange Spanner, which is

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Speaker 3: an espresso heaped with whipped cream. They do love their

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Speaker 3: whipped cream in Vienna. I went with the super fancy coffee.

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Speaker 3: It's called a fiaca, which is a large espresso whipped

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Speaker 3: cream in a shot of cherry snaps. To put a

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Speaker 3: bit of pep in your step?

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Speaker 2: Am I run thing in? The Ottoman Turks were kind

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Speaker 2: of responsible for the cafe culture.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, very much, Jack. When the Ottoman's unsuccessfully tried to

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Speaker 3: seize Vienna four hundred years ago, their soldiers inadvertently left

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Speaker 3: behind their bags of coffee beans on Kallenburg Mountain, which

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Speaker 3: is just above the city. So that gave rise to

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Speaker 3: Vienna's cafe society, in fact Europe's. And it's quite interesting

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Speaker 3: the backstory because the locals who discovered these bags, they

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Speaker 3: thought the bean should be added to sup At first,

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Speaker 3: they didn't really know what they held to do with them.

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Speaker 3: So they pumped some captured ottom and soldiers fer info

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Speaker 3: and before long, yes, Europe's love affair with coffee was born.

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Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. So beyond coffee, what about good eats and

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Speaker 2: Vienna's signature taste.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's hard to go past a vena Schnitzel,

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Speaker 3: which has to be veal to be vena Schnitzel. I

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Speaker 3: discovered rather expensive though that little slice of the calve.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of schnitzel in Vienna is actually pork.

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Speaker 3: And a great place to go is this restaurant called

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Speaker 3: fegel Muller. They actually claimed to be the home of

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Speaker 3: the original Vena Schnitzel, but they also do pork schnitzel

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Speaker 3: and the portion sizes would slayer. Passing Texan is served

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Speaker 3: the size of a family pizza and it protrudes over

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Speaker 3: the side of your dinner plate. And it comes with

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Speaker 3: the side of potato salad, which is really good street

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Speaker 3: food by the way. Liba kaiser, which is like a

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Speaker 3: slice of meat roll served in a crusty bun, and

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Speaker 3: it's typically a combo of finely chopped pork, bacon, and beef.

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Speaker 3: It kind of looks like a pinkish pete. At Christmas

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Speaker 3: time they serve wild ball in these crusty buns, but

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Speaker 3: definitely get it served heated. It is so tasty. And

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Speaker 3: I was thinking of you, Jack, Sweet Tooth Department. Apple

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Speaker 3: Strudel obviously is a national obsession. My new found love

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Speaker 3: in Vienna. Kayser Schmann or Kaiser Schmann, actually Kaiser Schmann

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Speaker 3: as in the Emperor of the Kaiser. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 3: pile of shredded fluffy pancakes served with stewed plums. I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they shred them out so that they fry

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Speaker 2: the panca and the entried them correct yeow oh great, okay,

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Speaker 2: and they're still warm, They're not like yeah yeah, oh man, okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm sold. That sounds fantastic. There are a lot of

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Speaker 2: palaces and follies in Vienna, so what did you fancy?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? They are started with a ridiculous number of royal

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Speaker 3: palaces like shern Braun and the Hofburg, which is why

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Speaker 3: many people called the in a wedding cake city. It's

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Speaker 3: just got all of these you know, confections architecturally, but

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Speaker 3: I reckon one of the best pads is Belvedere Palace.

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Speaker 3: So this was the Habsburg summer residence, and it's draped

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Speaker 3: in the most incredibly dreamy gardens, lots of statues, lots

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Speaker 3: of like Greek and Roman mythological statues, amazing fountains, and

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Speaker 3: come the weekend it's like half of the inner flocks

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Speaker 3: there just to hang out. And inside the palace the

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Speaker 3: big drawer the artwork of gors Stave Clint Austria's for

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Speaker 3: the painter, and of course he's the guy behind. Really

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Speaker 3: they're only painting the world comes to see and that's

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Speaker 3: the kiss.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh so good. So what about that giant

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Speaker 2: fairest wheel in Vienna? Did you track it down?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Indeed, Prata Park. I'm always up the cheap thrills, as

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Speaker 3: you know, Jack, and one of the world's oldest amusement parks,

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Speaker 3: Prata delivers in spades. It's actually been like a nursery

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Speaker 3: for many fair ground rights, so like it had the

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Speaker 3: world's first ghost train. But the big boy is that

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Speaker 3: giant fairest wheel, the Raisin Rud which James Bond of

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Speaker 3: Ficcionado's were recognized from the Living Daylights. It's the world's

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Speaker 3: oldest operating fairest wheel of its size, and I took

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Speaker 3: a ride up on the Raisin Rudd and it definitely

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Speaker 3: gives you the best views across the Vienna's rooftops.

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Speaker 2: And who from Clint to another artist to who is

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Speaker 2: the notable composer whose birthday is being celebrated this year?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, they're so excited about this in Vienna.

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Speaker 3: Johannes Strauss Vienna is celebrating his two hundredth birthday this year,

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Speaker 3: the King of Waltz. Of course, some think Blue Danube

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Speaker 3: and anything waltzy, it's probably Strauss. Yeah. So there's a

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Speaker 3: year long roster of celebration concerts and events. A lot

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Speaker 3: of them are free, a lot of them are open

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Speaker 3: air in Vienna. He was actually the Harry Styles of

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Speaker 3: his day, jabs. It was the wildly idolized pop star

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Speaker 3: of the mid nineteenth century and quite the womanizer. I

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Speaker 3: have to end historians reckon he was engaged thirteen times.

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Speaker 2: No, wow, I know. Okay, well that's a life I

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Speaker 2: lived for the sound. Okay, Oh so that's fantastic. Thank

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Speaker 2: you were all of your all of your tips for

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Speaker 2: exploring Vienna up on the news talks 'DB website. You

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Speaker 2: go and enjoy ash Burton and we will la catching

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Speaker 2: in very soon.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Zach Ivy Easter, Yeah you too.

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Speaker 2: That's Mike Yardley, our travel correspondent.

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