Food and Drinking

Honestly speaking, you have eaten the best delicious food if you're living in China. Though we have more and more concerns on the safety of food, we have to recognize that Chinese food is more delicious than others.

The cuisine is simple in Austria. People always use pork, beef, flour, tomato, potato and few green vegetables. So they surprised Chinese cost several hours to make the food.

Gulasch, it's good tasted after eating pizza several times

pasta

About the drinking, most of them directly drink the water from water pipe. And some of them like the special water that mixes water with gas. The coffee and beer are the favorite of local citizens. You can find more than one hundred beer brand in the city, and some of them have been found for centuries. Indeed they're good tasted.

special water

Die Weissf

Wieninger, it comes from Vienna

Stiegl, local famous brand

Working Workspace

Joel posted a blog related to how to hire the great programmers. One of his key points is building comfortable workspaces.

I believe every programmer loves the workspace like Google and Fog Creek. The workspace of Google has been very famous due to its French chef, gymnasium and big sofas. Why is Fog Creek? It's the company created by Joel, he also practiced his theory on his company. Ruan YiFeng posted a blog for it. I bet you would envy the guys working in that office.

How about the workspace of the office in Salzburg? Let me show some pictures.



Space

programmers have two monitors

Reading

non-technique magazines

technique books

Drinking

coffee machine

Kitchen

freezer for fast food

Entertainment

table football game

Transportation

Salzburg is a small city and is on the banks of the Salzach River. It's easy to go through the city by bus in 30 minutes.

Salzach River

outline view

Riding the bicycle is a very good way to enjoy the beautiful sight of the city. You could see many kids with parents riding bicycle in the sunny weekend.
The train station and a major bus transient station are the same one that is called as 'main station' by local residents. it's not far from the office of company, about 20 minutes by foot.

The ticket system of bus is more complicated than Beijing's. People can buy the ticket for single, 24 hours, 48 hours, a week and even a year. The children can get discount. There's no ticket seller in the bus. Usually nobody checks whether you have valid ticket. Pressing the button to open the door when getting on/off the bus.

The public transportation is designed well. There are different tickets for different people. For example, tourists would prefer to buy 24 hours ticket or 48 hours tickets. 24 hours ticket means the passengers can take any bus in the 24 hours after it's used first time. So it's very convenient for tourists. 24 hours ticket is 4.2€ for adults, 2.1€ for children.  The price of train tickets is same. The faster train "ICE" have higher price. The regular train is much cheaper. And the ticket allows a family not exceed 5 persons to go back and forth another city in a day. It's very cheap for a family to enjoy weekend in another city or town by train. I think it's a good approach to use public transportation more to reduce environment pollution.

round-trip ticket

Taking the train is more convenient than China. There is no security checking, no long distance between gate and platform and even no staffs in the platform. Meanwhile there is no any limitation to travel among the European countries. I went to Munich of Germany by train, I felt it's even more convenient than taking subway in Beijing. Both the train and bus have a lot of humanization design for disability people and people with their bicycles or pets.