• Where Eagles Dare, Austria

    Where Eagles Dare, Austria

    Summer or winter games, the Olympics are a two week festival of sport that has me glued to the telly. I’ve visited a few Olympic sites during my travels, and when I arrived in Innsbruck, Austria, I was keen to add another one to the list.

  • Hangar 7, Austria

    Hangar 7, Austria

    When you make a zillion bucks flogging unhealthy energy drinks, you can do all kinds of expensive things, like fly historic aircraft. I went along to Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Austria, to check out where the money went.

  • Sampling a Sachertorte, Austria

    Sampling a Sachertorte, Austria

    While in Austria I looked into the history of Vienna’s Sachertorte, and found I had something strikingly in common with the famous cake’s creator.

  • Visiting the Freuds’, Part II, Austria

    Visiting the Freuds’, Part II, Austria

    Eighty-five years too late for an appointment, I turned up at Sigmund Freud’s practice in Vienna, Austria

  • Visiting the Freuds’, Part I, Austria

    Visiting the Freuds’, Part I, Austria

    During the depths of my midlife crisis, a mate suggested I give psychoanalysis a try. Now this particular friend knows a lot about pretty much everything, and feeling I had nothing to lose, I took his advice.