Happy Easter! Took a morning hike out in the Allgau in nearby Bavaria about 20 km from Bregenz and came across the lovely Baroque Maria-Thann Church in a small village of Thann. Normally tiny towns like this don’t have such…
Happy Easter! Took a morning hike out in the Allgau in nearby Bavaria about 20 km from Bregenz and came across the lovely Baroque Maria-Thann Church in a small village of Thann. Normally tiny towns like this don’t have such…
As the days on the Bodensee become warmer and the trees and flowers burst with vibrant color I always start to get a bit “antsy.” So when this took hold this past week I hopped on the train to Switzerland…
The meadows were brown as we drove into the Villgraten valley in East Tyrol, just north of the border of Italy near the Dolomite mountains, expecting lots of snow for our annual ski touring week with friends from Zurich, Bregenz…
The second day of spring in March at Hochhäderich in the Bregenzerwald was sunny and clear. Spring had finally arrived in the Alps. There was very little snow cover, but what was left on the loipe was really fast! The…
The snow crunched beneath the skis of Franz and his sports buddy Florian as they headed up from the Sunnegg car park to the Ragazer Blanken in Damüls in the Bregenzerwald. They had joined the “Bregenz Alpenverein” who organizes ski…
A mixture of poetry and vibrant works of art relay the richness of Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander’s latest exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz that explores “cultural, psychological and sociological questions, processes in nature and global interconnections.” The title…
My favorite day of the week is Friday. And the Kunsthaus Bregenz likes it too, as the first Friday of every month is “Happy Friday” and admission is free. The latest exhibition until March 3, 2022 features the amazing work…
The cross country trails at the Sulzberg Nordic Sports Park were uncrowded and freshly groomed nice for an early Sunday morning session. Sulzberg is just a short 25 minute drive from Bregenz and sits at an elevation of 1.015 m. The…
The blustery winds swept over the drifts of snow as the determined ski touring group steadily made their way up the slopes to the Bullerschkopf peak that rises 650 vertical meters above the Schetteregg ski area in the nearby Bregenzerwald.…
A chilly January morning Franz woke up in anticipation of a beautiful ski touring day with the Bregenz Alpenverein and caught the early train to meet up with the group at the assigned meeting point to car pool up to…