ABOUT

I knew Salzburg. I wanted to know Austria.

Roam Austria began as a reason to explore my own country more seriously. I had spent years showing Salzburg to travelers. This is where I turn the same curiosity toward the rest of Austria.

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Based inSalzburg, Austria

Working in tourismSince 2012

Austria Guide
Licensed

Roam AustriaSince 2022

HOW THIS STARTED

Travel taught me to look at home differently.

I used to work mainly so I could travel. Then, in 2012, I took a job driving a rickshaw through Salzburg. I expected a summer job. Instead, spending every day with travelers made me notice my own city in a way I never had before.

Over the next decade I worked in hostels, guided visitors, went through tour-guide school and became a licensed Austria Guide. In 2018 I started Free Walking Tour Salzburg. Salzburg became the place I knew professionally: its streets, its history, and the questions travelers ask again and again.

The rest of Austria was different. I was Austrian, but in many parts of my own country I was still a traveler myself.

I started Roam Austria in 2022 because I wanted to change that — to explore the country more deliberately, understand how its places connect, and keep what I learned somewhere useful for other people planning a trip.

That is still the project.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

Experience where I have it. Research where I don't.

Salzburg is different

Salzburg is home and the place I know from years of guiding. Elsewhere I do not pretend to be the local expert. I visit, research, compare, and tell you what I can actually support.

Facts before confidence

Timetables, prices, access and opening hours change. Practical details are checked against primary or reliable sources. If I cannot verify something, I would rather leave it out than fill the gap with a confident guess.

Fewer superlatives

Austria has enough “must-sees.” Roam Austria is more interested in fit: which place makes sense for your route, your season, and the kind of trip you actually want.

HOW THE DIRECTORY IS BUILT

A destination is more than a list of attractions.

The directory is structured so places can be compared without flattening what makes them different.

01 · Explore

Whenever possible, the work starts on the ground. walking the place, taking photographs, using the transport, and noticing the questions that do not get answered by a tourism brochure.

02 · Verify

The practical layer gets checked separately. Transport, opening times, prices, seasonal access, official information, maps, and the details that determine whether a plan actually works.

03 · Connect

Then the place gets put into context. What region does it belong to? What makes it different from the next town? Which places work together? What historical or cultural thread explains why it looks and feels the way it does?

04 · Publish and revisit

Every page is reviewed by me before it goes live. Research tools can help organise information and surface questions worth checking, but they do not decide what belongs on Roam Austria. If something changes or turns out to be wrong, the page should change with it.

DISCLOSURES

Where I have a commercial interest

Roam Austria is editorial, but it is not disconnected from my tourism work. There are a few places where money can enter the picture, and you should know where they are.

My Salzburg tours

I own Free Walking Tour Salzburg. If one of our own tours appears in a recommendation, I will tell you that it is mine.

Affiliate links

Some booking and ticket links may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. A commission does not turn an option I would not otherwise recommend into a recommendation.

Invitations and complimentary entry

Occasionally I may be invited somewhere or receive free entry, a ticket, or another complimentary service. When it matters to the recommendation, that relationship is disclosed.

Paid placement

Businesses cannot buy a higher position in the directory or pay for a positive recommendation.

HOW TO USE ROAM AUSTRIA

Start with the map. Go deeper when you want to.

Destinations are the core of Roam Austria. The stories are where a route, a question, or a piece of Austrian culture deserves more space.

Destinations

Cities, towns, villages, and regions, structured so you can decide where to base yourself and what fits around it.

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Stories

Longer guides and essays about the places, connections, history, and practical questions that deserve more than a database entry.

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Experiences

Tours, hikes, cultural experiences, and other things worth making time for once you know where you're going.

Coming soon

Places

Sights, viewpoints, museums, restaurants, lakes, and other individual places worth knowing within a destination.

Coming soon

STILL EXPLORING

Austria is home. Still getting to know it.

That distinction matters to me. I do not want Roam Austria to sound as if I have personally mastered every valley, museum, village, lake, and mountain in the country. I haven't.

Salzburg is the place I know from years of guiding. Roam Austria is the wider project: learning the country properly, connecting what I find, and making this guide better as that knowledge grows.

So the directory is allowed to be incomplete. I would rather add a destination when the page is genuinely useful than fill the map with generic copy just to make the site look finished.

GET IN TOUCH

Know something I should look at?

If a detail is wrong, a connection has changed, or there is a destination I should pay attention to, send it. I read the messages myself.

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