Austria
Travel Moments, An Austrian Walk in the Forest
Suddenly the silence was shattered by the thunder of hooves and the cracks of a thousand tiny branches snapping… […]
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Austria
Review of Hotel Kristall, Leutasch
Sitting in the centre of the Leutasch Valley in the Austrian Tyrol, the Hotel Kristall, a typically attractive Austrian lodge styled building, is smack, bang… […]
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How the Bilderberg Group Interfered with our Hiking in Austria
The word was an area around Telfs had been cordoned off, with roads and paths patrolled by police. The area was certainly teeming with men in uniforms. […]
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I’m Not Singing to the Sound of Music in Salzburg
2015 is the 50th anniversary of the release of one of the most successful musicals of all time, The Sound of Music. The Austrian city of Salzburg is rightly proud… […]
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Review of Hotel Agathawirt, Bad Goisern, Austria
In its day, the hotel has been immortalised in paintings by Rudolf Van Alt and Gustav Klimt so to describe its aspect as picturesque is not overstating the case… […]
As we walked out
As We Walked Out Along The Soleweg from St Agatha to Bad Ischl
The Salzkammergut Soleweg runs for 40km from Lake Hallstatt to Ebensee and is considered to be one of the most beautiful walking routes in Austria. […]
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The Life of the Mirabell Palace and Gardens in Salzburg
The Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg might be a huge tourist attraction, but they have enough of a strong personality to swallow up the masses without allowing… […]
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Our Ten Favourite Hikes from 2014
It’s been a year of outstanding meals thankfully the effects of which have been countered by some equally outstanding hikes, many of which have taken our breaths away… […]
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Review of Hotel Restaurant Gosauerhof, Gosau, Austria
After a day in the mountains it’s like coming home to your two favourite Aunties and their perfect Austrian home in its perfect Austrian village… […]
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Trapped in the Hohensalzburg Fortress, Salzburg
I’m not surprised to discover the Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg was once used as a prison. We’ve not been thrown into dungeons or anything quite as… […]
Austria
Mozart and the Art of Dining in Salzburg
When the aria was finished, the waiters brought the culinary overture to a dinner based on menus from the 18th century but with the benefit of contemporary preparation and presentation, not to mention fresh vegetables from Padre Prior’s garden… […]
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Snapshots, The Dachstein Mountains
I had walked amongst those peaks and learned of the legends that live within their stony silence. I had been charmed, challenged and chastised by their unforgiving terrain… […]
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The Problem with Austrian Food
Words like ofenerdäpfel, kräuterrahm, röstkartofflen and faschiertelaibchen punched us relentlessly in the eyes. Desperately, and in vain, we tried to match… […]
As we walked out
As We Walked out to Ewige Wand in Austria
Austria, you’re an intriguing country for exploring on foot; positively schizophrenic in nature – a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of a location. […]
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Picking at Breakfasts around Europe
The realisation dawned that there is never going to be any time that I am going to think to myself ‘I really, really fancy tucking into a bowl of muesli.’ […]