There isn't enough time left in my life, nor available funds, to venture everywhere in the world where I would ideally like to visit. That isn't to say I presume that death is imminent, nor that I exist on the very brink of destitution, but it isn't unrealistic when reaching a certain age to accept…
When I returned to the Wildschoenau three years ago after an absence of over a decade, I was quickly reminded why my 2007 vacation in Niederau was perhaps up there with the best I have ever had. In the twenty years I have been travelling to the Austrian Alps throughout Salzburgerland, Carinthia, and Tirol a…
There are two types of locations in the Austrian and Slovenian Alps where I naturally gravitate towards - those that offer vistas where vertiginous peaks dominate as standard, and areas where rolling countryside gives way to higher ground. Where characteristics overlap in what otherwise are very different landscapes, a feeling of not having been overdeveloped…
It what I regard as an appalling visual assault and that upon nature the Tirolean Wildschoenau valley has unveiled the first feature of its Drachental Freizeitpark, an alpine coaster. In what is a grim irony a valley whose name otherwise correctly translates as 'wild and beautiful' has had such a scheme thrust upon it by…
It was early July in 2007. Funds were low but my by now deeply rooted desire to head to the Alps as often as possible was firmly established. Where though could I go on a budget that would barely get me three nights bed and breakfast in London, for a genre of holiday and in…
The Austria's Tirol is awash with natural beauty to a point of complacency. While though most of its valleys are simply named after the region or municipality in which they sit between competing mountainsides, the Wildschoenau boldly goes where all others dare not venture - by self-titling from its very attributes that cannot be denied:…
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