Night location: Vienna, Austria The city centre of Vienna is absolutely spectacular to walk through. The Austrians certainly know a thing or two about building palaces and ornamental buildings. There was clearly a lot of wealth in the Austro-Hungarian empire! The Kunsthistoriches Museum was built under Emperor Franz Joseph to accommodate the collections of art and antiquities acquired by the House of Habsburg. The building itself is a piece of art both outside ...

Night location: Vienna, Austria Today was a transit day for us as we bade farewell to Italy and flew to Austria. We drove from Santa Maria Navarrese to Olbia on the inland road that wound over the Supramonte to the high country of Sardinia. The only stop was at the hilltop town of Nuoro, once a centre of banditry, but in the last forty years it has been transformed into a pleasant town to live, work and visit. We walked along the Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi and enj...