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Linz itself is not a particularly touristy place. I often call it the Brum of Austria. Aside from the small…
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Here is the less glamourous side of working in Austria. Not everywhere is picturesque. Traun on the outskirts of Linz…
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I was in Vienna on Mayday a few years ago. The Prater funfair is supposed to be the place to…
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Another nice town in Bavaria. Passau is situated on the border between Germany and Austria, at the point where three…
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Lindau is a beautiful lake town on the Bodensee aka Lake Constance that forms the border between Austria, Switzerland and…
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The Documenta art festival was started in 1955 by local artist Arnold Bode as a way to shake off the…
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The Cap San Diego is a cargo ship from the 60s that used to sail between Hamburg and South America.…
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Here’s an assortment of bits from St Pauli in Hamburg. You might be wondering why there’s no Reeperbahn or Beatles…
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Of the major train interchanges in Germany, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is one of the most pleasant. Hannover is always really stressful,…
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There’s also a lot to do outside the Old Town. I was sitting on this roof terrace of the guest…
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The Central Post Office in Bratislava is a piece of Habsburg splendour that makes you feel you’re living in a…
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Bratislava’s Old Town is similar to Prague’s, but smaller and not crowded with tourists, so generally a more pleasant experience…
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It pretty much does what it says on the tin. €5 entry, fun, cheap. Right next to Bratislava Castle. This…
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Bratislava Castle is the centre point of the city, and the gardens are one of the nicest places when the…
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The former Hotel Kyjev is one of the most striking buildings in Bratislava. The circular design is actually new, originally…
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My one exception to avoiding spending money in Liechtenstein is souvenirs. There’s a WH Smith type shop selling books and…
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The river Rhine marks the border between Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Most people’s mental image of the river is of its…
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If you get the bus into Liechtenstein from Austria, along the way it stops at the village of Nendeln where…
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Next door to the National Museum and Parliament is the Postal Museum. I’m not really interested in stamp collecting, but…
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Liechtenstein also has a small national history museum. Last time I went it was full of medieval stuff, but they’d…
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Balzers is my favourite place in Liechtenstein. It’s just a normal town where people live, rather than being a strange…
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I try to avoid buying anything in Liechtenstein, because it’s so expensive. They have the same chains as Switzerland- Co-Op…
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Liechtenstein has a surprisingly great state-owned modern art museum. Although it’s expensive at 15 francs entry (essentially the same in…
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Gommern is a small town in the former East Germany. Not much happens there, even the German Wikipedia doesn’t have…
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Being sent to visit schools means you often go to places you would never have had the idea to visit…
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The Kiel Canal joins the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic at Kiel, and is one of the major…
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Burghausen is a scenic old town on the border between Bavaria and Austria, with Europe’s longest castle. The gradient between…
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Heidelberg is a historic university town in Baden-Württemberg on the river Neckar in south-west Germany, an upstream tributary of the…
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Where is Bruchsal? It’s a small town in south-west Germany near the border with France. Would you go as a…
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For some reason I never posted these photos of the Marzipan Museum when I wrote about Lübeck. The city is…
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Swarovski World is really, really disappointing. I’d wanted to go there for years, but never quite made it. It’s located…
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Schwaz in Tyrol was the former centre of silver mining in Austria, and is now the main town for the…
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I went back to Austria via Bolzano, changing trains at Merano. I’d never been to this part of Italy before.…
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A visit to the Archaeological Museum in Bolzano, home of Ötzi the Iceman
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Mals in Vinschgau is the other main town in Val Venosta. It’s been in Italy since 1914, but everyone speaks…
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You can reach the next village from Glurns by walking a couple of miles through the Stilsfersjoch Glacier National Park…
