This month...
… I’m appreciating the career choices made by so many people featured within our pages. In our Great Escape to the Austrian Alps (p45), Karl Geisler merrily yodels to the customers of his mountainside hostelry as he serves rich platters of cheese and sausages.
Far below, Siggi Kahl guides visitors through a fairytale labyrinth of ice caves. For our cover story (p67), Lonely Planet Traveller newcomer Jake Walters photographed six of Europe’s top concierges in the stylishly characterful hotels they represent. These experts are united by a self-evident love of the cities they live in, and here reveal their favourite places to eat, drink and explore. For a completely different take on our planet – one experienced around 270 miles from its surface – astronaut Scott Kelly shares his highlights from a year spent on the International Space Station (p26). He’s a personal hero, as much for his disarming modesty and (other)worldly wisdom as the inherent bravery his job requires.
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