Husband and wife team, Terence Carter and Lara Duston are on a one year global tour, Grantourismo. I asked Terence some questions, mainly about the European leg of their tour. Kotor, Montenegro 1 How many European countries have you visited?  Which 3 destinations did you enjoy most and why? We’d been to 32 European countries [...]

After my recent compilation of “The best of Vienna travel tips“, I though it would useful for readers planning a trip to Vienna to list some of the best places to stay in Vienna.  These Vienna hotel tips are based on research into accommodation of different grades/types that receive high guest satisfaction ratings.  I’ve also [...]

At Europe a la Carte we aim to show you the best places to visit to Europe through our Europe travel tips.  Here is our best of Vienna travel tips, collated from posts of the Europe a la Carte blogging team.  I’ve also put together “The best places to stay in Vienna for all budgets“. [...]

When visiting Austria, many people head to the great cities of Vienna and Salzburg to enjoy the history, Mozart, and the sound of music.  However, getting away from the big cities will let you see a different side of Austria – the peaceful, quiet countryside surrounded by the Alps. Pinswang is a small Alpine village [...]

There are heaps of reasons for visiting Vienna, such as the Baroque Zoo or the Hofburg Palace.  Guest writer Cristina Dima even fell in love there.  May is the perfect time to go, because the Vienna International Festival is on!  Called the Wiener Festwochen, it’s a month of arts grandeur and fun.  The festival was established [...]

Sigmund Freud is the kind of historical figure that I both do and don’t want to know a lot about – I guess I worry what his theories might say about me – but next time I’m in Vienna sightseeing I do plan head over to the Sigmund Freud Museum at Berggasse 19, which a [...]

Much to my surprise, I found out that many guided tours to the ancient site of Ephesus do not include a visit to the Ephesus museum. That’s why I decided to make this particularly appealing and beautiful location today’s Europe travel tip. The Ephesus Museum, located near the tourism office in the town center of [...]

The Imperial Apartments, Sisi Museum and the Imperial Silver Collection are all co-located in Vienna, a truly beautiful European city, as part of the Hofburg Palace in the centre of the city. It’s a place to visit when you want to see how the other half lived, because everything here is decadent. You’ll see the [...]

I am not a wine drinker. I can’t tell the difference between grapes and I don’t know how to pair wine with whatever I may be eating. Which is why I was a bit skeptical when climbing aboard the 38 at Schottentor in the European city of Vienna. I was heading out to Grinzing, a [...]

I wouldn’t have even stopped had it not been for what I thought was a ‘typo.’ The sheer horror of a ‘Manet’ instead of a ‘Monet’ was enough to redirect my attention from the unusual colours of Hundertwasserhaus to the more muted glass pane before me, just a few meters from the colourful building, which [...]