Austria

While I’ve done my fair share of downhill ski over the years, I was always a fair-weather skier. The lure of a sunny café terrace, …

I’m not really sure why I hadn’t visited Vienna before. Perhaps I’d heard it was expensive and imagined it to be a little stuffy, full …

As I cycled past beautifully tended rows of vines and fruit trees heavy with plums in Austria’s Wachau Valley, I was struck by how activities …

I’d always enjoyed my holidays in Austria, but on my Danube river cruise with Avalon Waterways, I think I fell in love with Vienna most …

I remember the first time I went cycling with Headwater Holidays on my honeymoon. Basking in the September sunshine, we cycled through unspoiled rural France, meandering …

While on holiday walking in Austria, Headwater walking tours had taken us along the picturesque Gaistal Valley, up to the high peak of Seefelder Spitz, …

It is now an established tradition for my friend Julia and I to spend a few days hiking together each September. This year our walking …

What do you do when you twist an ankle on the first day of your walking holiday in Austria? Despite my bad luck the day …

It’s become an annual ritual for my friend Julia and I to take off for a few days in early September for some hiking in …

“We all have a little monkey in us from way back”, jokes Hervé Chayrou, the owner and our instructor at Hornpark, a treetop adventure playground …

During my previous hikes in the Alps I got to know those pesky mountain-bikers only too well. On the Tour de Mont Blanc I’d seen …