Mitteleuropa Book

  • I am aliiiiiive

  • A sunken church in an alpine lake

  • The end of the line in Austria, and a floating opera house.

  • Rare plants high up in the Alps.

  • Austria does charity shops right.

  • The home of Milka chocolate and spectacular views.

  • A pretty market town on the Czech border.

  • A preview of my travel writing book.

  • See the other thrills available in Reichenthal.

  • In which I venture through the infernal woods, protected by a tiny horse shoe.

  • A visit to the Kafka Museum in Prague.

  • The works of Czech Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha.

  • Prague in the winter of 2022 when there were no tourists.

  • A Baroque monastery in Upper Austria.

  • The Hanseatic merchant hometown of marzipan (and Thomas Mann).

  • The former last town in West Germany.

  • High up in the Kalkalpen National Park.

  • Austria isn’t an alpine utopia.

  • The former Checkpoint Alpha between East and West Germany.

  • German supermarkets are wild places.

  • A small town on the old border with East Germany.

  • In and out through Alexanderplatz.

  • Bratislava after a long break.

  • In search of Heidi.

  • An idyllic time in the Austrian Alps.

  • October 2021 was the first time I returned to Vienna in 18 months as well. I was born and grew…

  • I got this postcard from a supermarket in a small town in NW Germany near where the festival is held.…

  • I realised I still had a few photos from February in Austria left unposted, so here they are. Strange to…

  • Amstetten is the most extremely average place in Austria. It’s a largish commuter town in between Linz and Vienna. You…

  • I was supposed to be back in Austria right now, running more school workshops. Obviously that’s not happening now, due…

  • Austria Post does an excellent fixed price box within Europe which is extremely handy when you’re travelling around for weeks…

  • Here’s some assorted photos from Deutschlandsberg. It’s a very ordinary small Austrian town near Graz. Although it’s a pretty and…

  • My next work assignment was in Deutschlandsberg, a small town at the foot of the Koralm Alps, near the Slovenian…

  • While I was in Graz I went to a show at the art museum. I’ve been in the cafe many…

  • En route to my next work assignment in Deutschlandsberg near the Slovenian border I stopped off in Graz overnight. I’ve…

  • To travel in between Vienna and Graz, until the never-ending tunnel under the mountains is finished later this decade, you…