‘Stortinget’, in the centre of Oslo, is an intimidatingly grand building and well deserving of a captured image during my meanderings through this beautiful city. Had I been here during the day, and more specifically, on a Saturday, I might have had the chance of a guided tour if I was one of the first […]
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All in Balance It’s so hard to describe the beauty of this landscape, the scale of it, the life in it, the colour through it, the majesty of it. From deep in the lush valleys the grey peaks seem a world away, almost disconnected from the peaceful cosy green of heather and forest. From high […]
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“The heart of Austria!”, my cousin exclaimed as we stood on the far side of Pasterze Glacier on the Carinthian side of the border between Carinthia and Tyrol, deep in the Austrian Alps. High in that uninviting world of ice and rock four climbers are slowly making their way up a 45 degree ridge-line to […]
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In the deep alps of Austria, lies her heart, the peak of Großglockner, Austria’s highest mountain. As mountains go it might be dwarfed on paper by 58 higher peaks scattered throughout the alps but in absolute prominence relative to the surrounding terrain it stands only second to France’s Mount Blanc. In the heatwave of a […]
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Looking up towards heaven inside The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Linz, Austria. When The New Cathedral was designed it was to be the largest, tallest and most majestic cathedral in Austria. The bureaucracy had decreed however that in Austria-Hungary no building was allowed to be higher than Saint Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. Stifled […]
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