I FLEW to Austria, ate half a pig with Liddy and went curling. Liddy was the head of tourism in Bad Gastein, one of the prettiest little towns in Austria – and that’s saying something. “How did you ...

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The train from Salzburg, Austria to Bad Gastein is just shy of 90 minutes. The book I brought for company sits idly on my lap, and I look out my smudged train window, transfixed by the landscape. The ...

The best way to get up to Bad Gastein is to go down. You take a deep breath and a leap-of-faith step off a roadside platform’s edge and begin a screaming, zip wire descent through fresh winter air ...

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Despite an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and tighter purse strings, Europeans are raring to hit ski slopes this winter. At the same time, they’re on the lookout for great deals and ways to avoid the ...

I am what the experts call a cr*p skier and often feel like a slow-moving gate in somebody else’s downhill slalom, narrowly missed by the experts as they swoop past me down the mountain. But I love ...

There comes a time in every parent's life when their children flee the nest to start to build a life of their own. It happened to me last summer when my eldest son Hugo, now 19, won a place at Bath ...

Bad Hofgastein is a sizeable, spacious, quiet spa town set on flat ground in the widest part of the Gastein valley, with funicular access to the slopes. The pedestrianized centre is compact, and ...

The best way to get up to Bad Gastein is to go down. You take a deep breath and a leap-of-faith step off a roadside platform’s edge and begin a screaming, zip wire descent through fresh winter air ...

Euronews Travel looks at some of the emerging European ski destinations offering high-quality terrain and a range of facilities, without breaking the bank. Despite an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and ...