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Visiting Graz, Austria

Posted by Fran Capo, Adventure TravelingMom | Feb 28, 2014 | 0 |

Graz, the second largest city in Austria, is known as a student city because it has six universities with more than 44,000 students.

One if its most famous students was Nikola Tesla, the namesake for the all-electric sports car on the market today. He studied electrical engineering at the Polytechnic in Graz in 1875.

Graz is also home to the Lurgrotte, the most extensive cave system in Austria, which was discovered on April Fool’s Day (April 1) in 1894.

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The cave entrance has a fossilized skeleton of a cave bear, (a species that died out 20,000 years ago) it’s also home to 600 bats, which are very much alive. I wanted to go in for an adventure, but it was closed at that time.

Next stop on my whirlwind tour of Austria: The world famous Heiltherme Bad Waltersdorf Spa

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Fran Capo As an adventurer Fran has bungee jumped, swam with sharks, flown combat aircraft, driven race cars, eaten fire & chased tornadoes. Her other 4 world records: Highest book signing -Kilimanjaro; Deepest book signing - wreck site of Titanic; Most patients seen in 2 days; 21, 695. Fastest theme song to national airplay. She has appeared on over 350 TV shows including; Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, Inside Edition, ET, Ripley's Believe it or Not, More than Human ,Martha Stewart and CNN where her segment was voted top 5 watched. She’s been heard on over 3700 radio shows including Howard Stern, Bloomberg news and Rick Dees. As a comedienne, Fran Capo has performed in major comedy clubs from Dangerfield’s in NY to the Tropicana in Vegasto Okinawa for the Marines.