oberösterreich

  • There’s also lots of forest around Bad Zell. Bad Zell Forest

  • The hills weren’t alive with the sound of music so much as with elderly people on healthful walks, armed with…

  • Recently I dug out an old pocket camera from about 15 years ago and got a new battery for it.…

  • Bad Zell is a spa town in the Mühlviertel, whose claim to fame is that the water is full of…

  • Forget Hallstatt, I think Gmunden is the best lake town in Austria. It’s also a real place where people live…

  • St Georgen am Walde (St George in the Woods) is an extremely obscure village of 500 people in the Mühlviertel…

  • Wels is famous in Austria for being boring. It’s much more attractive than nearby Traun, with a pretty riverside and…

  • I’ve made clear how much I loathe Hallstatt in my other post. It starts at the ferry. To access the…

  • You may be surprised to find out that Hallstatt is one of my most hated places in Austria. This probably…

  • Linz itself is not a particularly touristy place. I often call it the Brum of Austria. Aside from the small…

  • Here is the less glamourous side of working in Austria. Not everywhere is picturesque. Traun on the outskirts of Linz…

  • All the books I read in 2024

  • A pretty market town on the Czech border.

  • 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.

  • In search of Heidi.

  • An idyllic time in the Austrian Alps.