We have been frustrated since we arrived by the lack of info for visitors in anything other than German.   Now that has changed, our area tourist office has just sent out the weeks programme in German, Italian and English.  Can’t comment on the Italian but the English is pretty good.   At last our English speaking [...]

Open invite to join in a trip to Europe including our place – 4th to 18th August 2012 Adrian & Sandra,  who have stayed with us twice now (and helped us out at the recent NEC bike show)  are planning another visit this coming August.  They would like to invite others to join them, particularly [...]

Well here we are in 2012 and already looking forward to the next summer season! Bookings are coming in thick and fast and as the BBC keeps reminding us that there are now less than 200 days to go until the Olympics start in London, just think how soon those high roads will be open! [...]

First of all we would like to wish you a Very Happy New Year! Hopefully, despite the doom and gloom in the media, the Mayan predictions of impending disaster and the increasingily strange global weather patterns, we will look back on 2012 as another great year for biking, hiking and generally enjoying the Carinthian hospitality! [...]

National Park card scheme confirmed for 2012 One of the “joys” of running a business in Austria is dealing with the very different attitudes towards forward planning.  Basically it would appear that the Austrians simply don’t!   In a lot of ways it works because most of what happens around here follows tradition.  Everyone knows what [...]

To those of you have been waiting with bated breath for further instalments of the bike show reports our sincere apologies.   We have always been able to resist anything but temptation and from midweek on we gave in to a succession of invites to meet up with friends after the show.   Curry?  Why not, we [...]

Now I did warn you about not keeping this up! Sorry this is not last night and will be fairly short therefore. But as a small token of my regret I have uploaded all the #motorcyclelive daily videos for you all to watch with awe here. Yesterday was as busy a weekday as we have [...]

Monday morning – we had quite forgotten what it was like fighting your way up the M42 in the rush hour! Where we live 3 cars in an hour constitutes a busy morning! Luckily a fair few of our fellow motorway travellers turned out to be heading to the NEC too and we have had [...]

Its a bike show – so before we talk about our day, we thought you deserved to see some bikes! Another day has brought us lots of interesting visitors, but this time many have been from colleagues old and prospective, often looking to build on relationships that already exist via the ever-growing links we maintain [...]

We start off this blog with the firm intention of updating every evening on how the day @motorcyclelive 2011 has gone for us. We really do mean to try! Of course we may find ourselves tempted from the righteous path by friends and colleagues insisting that we spend our evenings otherwise engaged in the noble [...]