Austria

  • 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 Baroque monastery in Upper Austria.

  • High up in the Kalkalpen National Park.

  • Austria isn’t an alpine utopia.

  • 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 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…

  • A lot of small towns in Austria have a Mardi Gras carnival, and they often organise them to be on…

  • My next work assignment was in a small village called Pamhagen on the Austria-Hungary border. The main hotel in the…

  • Vienna has strong rent controls for shops, meaning that many of them are in the same location for decades, leading…

  • I also visited Vienna Architecture Centre- I’d never been inside this small museum before, but the entry was thrown in…

  • About 15 minutes walk from the school I was working at in Vienna, and next door to the University of…

  • On a rare day off in Vienna I went to the Open Studio day at the Vienna Academy of Fine…

  • The museum square in Vienna has repurposed a lot of these old vending machines to sell comics, zines, art prints,…

  • I’ve been in Vienna and now a tiny village on the Austro-Hungarian border for the last few weeks. Here’s what…

  • The Kunsthalle Wien holds temporary exhibitions- I caught the last day of this show. It definitely isn’t the best thing…

  • I’ve been back in Vienna since Saturday, but I was busy at the annual work conference. Last year was the…

  • Here’s some more old films I scanned- this time of Innsbruck from two years ago. Standard Ilford HP5 with a…

  • A short train ride or couple of miles walk outside Kitzbühel is the Schwartzsee (“black lake”). It’s full of minerals…