After 3 weeks on tour we needed some place quiet to meet family and relax. With our affinity to mountain passes we found a nice…

The shortest post so far… because we reached the Austrian border in the Morning and the first thing we did was extensive shopping at our…

Today’s streets lead us from Meran over three passes to Cortina d’Ampezzo. Passo Costalunga (1.753 m), Passo Pordoi (2.239 m) and Passo Falzarego (2.105 m)

Four crazy New Zealanders with Austrian passports in a French car in Italy … always looking for trouble by minding speed limits and enjoying the…

From Lake Como to the northeast, tunnels and autostradas dominate the area and if you dare leave them to see more of the little villages,…

A short distance from Münster to Täsch, but then you’ve got to change to a train for the last stop because Zermatt is car-free! Only…

From the original Naturfreundehaus experience (you can hear people sneezing 2 rooms away and share a toilet and bathroom with 20 others (including floodings, latenight…

Icy air streams across your face, snow crunches under your feet, and the view nearly takes your breath away: on one side the view of…

From Strasbourg to Mulhouse via “The Alsace Vinyard”. Many little villages lay inmidst green hills and offer their vine and other products to (mostly) tourists.

Lots of huge, beautiful domes, fragrant flower pots everywhere, mild summer air, Flammküchle, Little France – The historic core of Strasbourg lies on the Grande Île in the river Ill,…