Blog & Co-Lab

Hallstatt and Obertraun
For a break from the city, we headed to the alpine towns of Obertraun and the 7000 year old town of Hallstatt. The town has been in existence even before Rome and has been declared a UNESCO world heritage site, so what you see has remained authentic to the way it looked for many years.


Wachau Valley, Austria
To get away from the busy streets of Vienna, we boarded a cruise along the Danube into the wine valley of Wachau to get an authentic Austrian experience.

Willkommen in Wien
Vienna was for decades seated as the capitol of the Austro-Hungarian empire and before that, also the Holy Roman Empire. So in a sense, it has been the centre of the western world for much of history. That explains why every building screams opulence.

Bratislava, Slovakia
With the trains closed between Budapest and Vienna, we were forced to take the quickest alternative via Bratislava.

Syrian migrant crisis in Hungary
As we headed to Keleti train station On the first rainy winter's night in a week of summer with opera tickets in hand, a woman walked past us with tears in her eyes. She was another tourist and as we turned the corner, I could see the cause of her tears.