Hiking from Breakfast to Dessert in Bregenzerwald
I met up yesterday with another local tourism official, Cornelia Kriegner, at my hotel, and we didn’t go out to her car, as I would expect. Instead, we waited for the local bus and rode it up a few miles past the village to a trailhead. Conny was taking me […]
Bregenzerwald, Austria: Whimsy and Beauty
My first full day in Bregenzerwald was long and full of fascinating sites and an overwhelming number of alluring mountain vistas. Around every corner, another tidy home punctuated by red geraniums and stacks of narrow logs neatly tucked away came into view. Many of the people around here use these […]
Franz Fetz Has Seen It All in Bregenzerwald
I had dinner at the fine restaurant at my hotel, the Gastof Hirschen Schwarzenberg, and I ordered the chef surprise. No idea what was going to be served, I left the four courses up to the chef. And a good choice it was! They set four forks in front of […]
Vorarlberg: Austria’s Mountainous West
I’m having breakfast in the mountain village of Schwarzenberg, in the Vorarlberg region of Austria, the farthest west of Austria’s nine states, right near Switzerland. At the top of the map is the Bodensee, which some call Lake Constance. The region was formed in 1919, and this part of Austria […]
Vorarlberg Austria is My Next Destination
On Thursday night I’ll fly to Zurich and then drive about 50 km over to the region of Vorarlberg, in western Austria. It’s right on Lake Constance, and it’s a part of the world I’ve never seen. I met these folks at a European travel exposition, and they kept talking […]
Deerfield Decides to Come Together
Deerfield really feels like we’ve taken a turn into a new chapter. For so long, the symbol of our downtown has been the tired old building that once housed Franklin County’s Cable TV channels, which is now for rent. We’ve had a lot of empty stores and sad “now leasing”signs. […]
Dinner with Neighbors at Atlas Farm
It was the perfect evening, still in the 80s, but cooling off, as we headed down a dusty farm road to a big tent you could see in the distance. The occasion was a customer and vendor appreciation dinner at Atlas Farm, the farm store where we buy lots […]
Railroads, Red Rocks and Buffalo Bill
Denver is an inspiring city, the biggest metropolis for 500 miles around the vast American West. I just spent five days exploring and enjoying Denver and the surrounding countryside, and I came away once again, impressed with how vibrant the place is. Last Sunday I joined a group of travel […]