I live very near the Gaisberg, the most well-known local mountain towering over Salzburg and yet, in my two and a half years of living in this city, I have hiked it just once before during the first winter I…
View Post
I have been living in Salzburg since late 2021 and, in that time, I've been carefully curating my self-care toolkit. While I was at a nail appointment the other week, I was chatting to my nail lady about putting together…
View Post
Just across the border from Salzburg where I live is the exquisite Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria, Germany. I explored some of Berchtesgaden two summers ago on a biking and hiking daytrip to Königssee, Obersee und Röthbachfall. The Berchtesgaden National…
View Post
May is the month of public holidays in Europe, coinciding with the beginning of summer and all these extra special little days to be outside and enjoy it even more. → Follow along my Austrian adventures on Instagram @JanaInAustria! Two of…
View Post
The last time I was at Schlosspark Hellbrunn was last winter, when a big snowfall brought Janna and I out to trek through the snow-covered gardens. With late spring very much firmly settled across the city, a pretty bike ride…
View Post
Disclaimer: I am not a mental health professional. But I have been through my fair share of shit, and I tell my friends this all the time: I think we go through shit so we can help others go through…
View Post
I saw the northern lights for the very first time last year on a winter trip to Norway. Having briefly seen them shimmering in the night sky over Tromsø, it was a few days later on the little island of…
View Post
In the summer of 2022, I hiked up to the Schafbergspitze with my mum while she was visiting me in Salzburg. The peak of Schafbergspitze overlooks Wolfgangsee, Fuschlsee, Mondsee, Attersee and the exceptional mountain ranges and towns far flung across…
View Post
Aside from that chaotic week where the spring snows decided to redescend upon Salzburg last month - as that famous German lyric goes, "April, April, der macht, was er will" which roughly translates to "April, April, he does want he…
View Post
Friday 3 May was the most perfect day, celebrating the love of Mélisa and Denis, two of my best friends, with their pup and my godson Nacho. We met exactly a year ago in Salzburg and it has since been…
View Post
On the border between Austria and Germany, nestled against the quiet banks of the Salzach, the burg dominating the skyline and the sun shining down on the pretty pastel coloured Aldstadt… I spent the Wednesday 1 May Austrian public holiday…
View Post
Spring has firmly arrived and it's actually my favourite time of year to be active outdoors. Okay, who are we kidding, I want to be outdoors all year long, but I think spring has that perfect combination of cool forest…
View Post
TEN YEARS. A DECADE. 3,653 DAYS. That's how long I've been writing this blog. My mind is blown by the sheer scale of that amount of time. It's bonkers. I don't want to make this an extortionately long blog post…
View Post
I had just returned from a month of more than 30-degree temperatures in Thailand and, while I had mostly adjusted to the idea of spring being well on its way, I wanted to try to squeeze in one more snowy…
View Post
