Germany

The ‘Almost’ Trips and other missed opportunities.

Since I relaunched the Wiener Wanderland website, I’ve been filling its pages with old trip reports from the first website and writing new reports based on past trips. Living in a time of a pandemic isn’t the best time to launch into a career as a travel writer. My backlog of old photos meant that content was fairly easy to come by, at least up until now. As of today, the cupboard is bare, more or less. There are shots from Vancouver, Canada, and Tokyo, but these go back many years and perhaps aren’t up to the level I’m happy to write about. There are enough to write an article around though. For every trip I’ve had ample pictures of though, there are more than a few destinations I visited for work, where time was too short, or where things went wrong, so there’s just to enough to cover a whole article, but maybe there’s a nice story to tell. So here we are. Welcome to the ‘Almost’ trips.

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Lindau – Mountains, Shorelines and History

Lindau is beautiful. I know that summing up in the very first sentence isn’t the way these kinds of articles are supposed to go. The fact remains though that Lindau is beautiful. I found myself spending the weekend there a few years ago for work. I didn’t pick Lindau because of its beauty. I picked it because it was cheaper than staying in Friedrichshafen where I was to work, and it was also cheaper than the Austrian City Of Bregenz, just a few miles away. I had no expectations, just that it would make a nice base to head to Friedrichshafen the following morning. So on a Friday afternoon, after a long trip from Wien on a Railjet, and a change at Bregenz, I arrived on the tiny island.

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