A Quick Guide to Austria

There's the Austria of the postcards — and then there's the one you actually want to travel. This guide gets you to the second. Take coffee under the Habsburg domes in the morning and stand alone at an alpine viewpoint by afternoon. Eat like a local, ride the trains like you've done it for years, and find the better café two streets over.

Inside, you'll find:

•The cities, beyond the obvious — Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Graz
•The country most visitors miss — the lakes, the Danube valley, the high alpine passes and the quiet south
•Planning you can trust — current advice on when to go, what things cost, and how to get around by train and road
•Eating and drinking the Austrian way — coffee houses, wine taverns and mountain huts
•The etiquette that opens doors — local manners and the few words of German that change how you're treated

Honest, up-to-date and built for real trips. Less time spent planning. More time spent there.