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  • What Is a Digital Passport?

    A digital passport, also called a biometric passport, is essentially a digital version of a passport. All of a traveler's information that would be printed in the passport book is digitized on a chip and used as passport control to grant the traveler entrance to a country.

  • Traveling in Austria

    Austria is a landlocked country in central Europe. The former center of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria is home to 8.3 million people, about one quarter of whom live in the metropolitan area of Vienna, the nation's capital city. Vienna is a major urban hub and the tenth largest city in the European Union (based on population). Austria is famous for its mountainous western region, with states Upper Austria and Tirol popular destinations for alpine skiers.

  • What Are Autobahns?

    The German highway system is a highly developed and maintained system of roads linking metropolitan areas to rural locales, and the former West Germany to the former East Germany. After reunification in 1990, the western portion of Germany absorbed the autobahn system from the former eastern portion and completed badly needed upgrades. Despite its reputation for unlimited speeds, the accident rate on the German autobahn is very low.

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