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Salzburg, Hallstatt & Vienna Austria (and a bit of Germany) July, 2006

Perhaps it’s the mountain air, beautiful scenery and clear rivers but Austria has really made an impression on me.  From the clean pale stone of the buildings in Vienna to the winding roads through the mountains I can’t help but feel relaxed and just happy to let the surrounds soak in. We left Vienna and drove across to the Danube valley.  This is a winery area with scattered castles, churches and monasteries to overlook the valley.  We stopped in Dürnstein, ...

We are dead tired from the hike we did yesterday. The day started offwith something like this; “Let’s just take in an easy hike today.”Five hours later we were dragging ourselves back into the room. We embarked onan easy hike and ended up hiking three quarters of the way up the highest peaksaround. It was a very nice hike, went through some amazing woods withall the fall colors on the trees and the forest floor bellow. You shouldsee the roads they build over here; they go straight up th...

Austria is the western neigbour of my homeland Slovakia, a small German speaking country with very specific dialects which complains a lot of being confused with Australia. A country that has lots to offer for travellers.

Hallstatt is a very picturesque and quaint town about 20 miles east east of Salzburg in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. This town was built around the Hallstatt Lake and surrounded by steep mountains, making the building a bit cramped. The only way to reach Hallstatt is via a train that will arrive on the opposite side of the lake and to take a boat across.   Despite the gloomy and lousy weather during our weeklong stay there, we had great fun exploring the trails and sights in th...

The weather wasn’t very good and we wanted to wait if we get better weather for skiing so we used the day and drove to Hallstatt. Hallstatt is one of the famous cities for tourists and only 17 kilometres away form Bad Aussee. Its postcard beauty, the old buildings and the salt mine attracts every year thousands of tourists from all over the world to come here. Hallstatt not enough space so the buried the bones of their deaths in a camber. (They stopped practicing this about 60...

Central Europe has a lot to offer, you just have to choose. May 2005 I was traveling around this region and visited some really beautifull places.

Here is my 2006 trip in Europe.

19 days in Europe

A 2 month prowl through 18 countries in Europe.