Bolzano (Bozen) The Italian mountain city with Austrian flair - The facinating culture of Sud Tyrol, south tyrol, Alto Adige, tirol, austria, italy, italia, culture, feels more Austrian, german language, german in italy, things to do, the dolomites, otzi, iceman, Lago di Carezza, bus, how to get to the Lago di Carezza from bolzano, duomo,

Bolzano (Bozen) The Italian mountain city with Austrian flair – The fascinating culture of Sud Tyrol

Published on: 06/05/201605/09/2019 by Nic Hilditch-Short 12 Comments

We had been keen to head up to the very North of Italy for sometime, the mountainous region on the border of Austria had temped to its snow covered peaks and delightful villages. But little did we know that upon crossing over into the region of Sud Tyrol we would be entering into a majority

A guide to a day in stunning VIENNA, Austria

Published on: 31/03/201505/09/2019 by Nic Hilditch-Short 9 Comments

Ohhh Vienna! I’m not sure about you but of all the opulent and beautiful cities in Europe that I wanted to visit one day Vienna was up there at the top! It was a city of which it’s majesty I could only imagine, but it’s cost I was oh so aware of! As budget travellers we

Getting from BRATISLAVA (Slovakia) to VIENNA (Austria) and back!

Published on: 20/03/201524/08/2018 by Nic Hilditch-Short 5 Comments

One of the reasons we were keen to visit Bratislava (on top of the fact that it is an amazingly beautiful city and we love Eastern Europe) is that it is so close to Vienna. In fact they lie only 34 miles from each other, some have even stated them to be the closest capital cities in the