📍 Linz, Austria
Linz, Austria: The Industrial City That Became a Digital Art Capital
Linz was the city on my Austria itinerary nobody had a strong opinion about either way. Salzburg got enthusias…
📍 Hallstatt, Austria
Hallstatt, Austria: The Postcard Village That Comes With a Genuine Crowd-Management Problem
I'd seen Hallstatt in enough photos before this trip that I half suspected it might be one of those places tha…
📍 Graz, Austria
Graz, Austria: The Second City That Refuses to Play Second Fiddle
Graz kept getting introduced to me, before I actually arrived, "Austria's second-largest city," "closer to Sl…
📍 Innsbruck, Austria
Innsbruck, Austria: Where the Alps Start Directly at the City Limits
I'd seen photos of Innsbruck before this trip, the kind where mountains appear to rise directly out of a city'…
📍 Salzburg, Austria
Salzburg, Austria: Mozart's Birthplace and the City That Out-Alps the Alps
I went to Salzburg carrying two fairly specific expectations, both shaped entirely by things I'd absorbed seco…
📍 Darwin, Australia
Darwin, Australia: The Tropical Frontier City at the Edge of the Outback
Darwin sat at the very edge of my Australia itinerary in more ways than one, geographically the country's most…
📍 Brisbane, Australia
Brisbane, Australia: The Subtropical City Everyone Uses as a Gateway and Skips Themselves
Brisbane kept showing up in my planning almost exclusively as an airport code, a connection point people flew …
📍 Stirling, Scotland
Stirling, Scotland: The Small City That Decided Scotland's Fate Twice
Stirling barely registered on my radar before this trip, mentioned mostly as a convenient stop between Edinbur…
📍 Hobart, Australia
Hobart, Australia: The Island Capital That Rewrote My Idea of a Museum
I added Hobart to my Australia itinerary almost as an experiment, curious whether Tasmania's small capital cou…