The hills are alive with the sound of music! Well, while some may have their doubts about that, there’s no denying that Salzburg is at least alive with The Sound of Music fans. Each year roughly 300,000 visitors come to explore
There are a few things I’ve been obsessed with pretty much my whole life. Travel. Disney. The Olympics. For as long as I can remember, no matter whether its winter or summer, the Olympics have meant two weeks of sitting in
A convergence of houses hug the icy lake shore, their wooden roofs rising up to greet the green mountains that tower behind. Steady raindrops fall, shimmering the deep blue waters with movement and casting a dim glow over the church
Salzburg, Austria. Home to Mozart and The Sound of Music, Austria’s fourth largest city is perhaps its most famous. With a population around 150,000, this small city more than doubles in numbers during summer months when popular music festival come
They do things differently in Switzerland. Maybe it’s the thin mountain air or all the international bankers, but for some reason backpacking in this country feels different from the others I have travelled through in Europe. After trekking through so
Zermatt, Switzerland has got to be one of the absolute worst places for a single, female budget traveler to go alone. Prices are high. There’s not much to do in town apart from hiking (unless you can afford to ski in
So you're wondering how to ski the Swiss Alps. Oh goodness. Perhaps the title of this blog post misled you. I hope you aren’t here to learn the necessary skills to ski the Alps. If you’ve read my recent account
As the Jungfrau Railway rolled to a stop at the Kleine Scheidegg station in the Alps of Switzerland, I stood by the ski storage rack lost in fascination at taking a train instead of a ski lift to the top
I arrived in Interlaken under the cover of darkness some hours before midnight. Weary from a long day of sight-seeing in Geneva and the train journey, I mustered only enough energy to wheel my belongings to City Hotel Oberland and
“The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen. A Kingdom of isolation and it looks like I’m the Queen.” The lyrics from Disney’s Frozen soundtrack blast through my headphones, songs I purposefully downloaded in preparation for