If you enter Austria from the west, near Bregenz on Lake Constance, with
a little luck and the right meteorological conditions, images of
stunning beauty will unfold between the water and the mountains. The
peaks divide the weather, with rain fronts and clear skies competing for
space, or dense fog spreading across the ground like mystical, glowing
steam. When night falls further back in the High Alps in this geological
spectacle called Austria, the peaks and summits soon start resembling
the heads of animals, like monstrous bodies whose flanks are dotted with
villages resembling Christmas ornaments. The geographic drama mellows
to the east, flowing into more friendly hills until, finally, behind
Graz, behind Vienna, in Burgenland, the Pannonian Basin is reached, and
you come to the end of today's Austria. It's a beautiful country. That
much must be said ... before saying anything else.
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