Any Excuse to Travel

Stories from travels in

Vienna

LOOs bar in Vienna

Cocktails in Vienna

I used to collect stamps. Then I moved on to frogs. Now I collect experiences. And chief amongst them is my quest for the perfect

The ABC of ABQ

Back when I was working in a peroxide plant in Longview, Washington, I decided to move. It wasn’t the smell from the paper mill across

All aboard

I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to be trapped aboard a ship with the same people for days on end.

Naschmarkt Vienna

Vienna – not all schnitzel and sausage

When I pitch Vienna against Budapest or even Bratislava, it always comes in third. I’ve never taken to the city – and I have no

Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser

Flushing the loo is a godless deed – a wanton act of death

With a name like Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser, is it any wonder that this Austrian artist believed that the colourful, the abundant, the manifold, is