While I hate meticulously planning my vacations at previously unvisited places before actually getting there, I normally do a quick...
Like 90% of first-time visitors to Lucerne, I spent my first full day here doing the “golden tour” of Mount...
Today was my first evening in Switzerland, and I was very pleased to come across a restaurant with a Brettljause...
If you, like me, live in Vienna, the chances that you ever visit Murheuriger are extremely small. It is not...
The Kölnbrein Dam and its water reservoir at the end of the Malta Valley are stunningly beautiful. They are also...
There are two mountains with cable cars on both sides of Bad Gastein, and as customary, there are restaurants next...
When you hear about a location called Sportgastein, you would be forgiven for thinking of it as an ugly ski...
This is my second visit to Bad Gastein after a ten-year break, and I must admit that almost everything I...
There are some good Brettljausen out there that are very difficult to write about – and the weight of having...
There are two things many people do not realize about Austria’s picturesque Salzkammergut region. First, despite the similarity of names,...
You know you are close to Hungary when in addition to black pepper and salt you find on your table...
The Pop’s place was one of the reasons for my first-ever visit to Ljubljana. A Slovenian colleague of mine had...













