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ot a bad view, right?” says Dr Suzie Dick, our mountain guide.


That’s an understatement. I’m on a grassy slope that flows like a quilt in endless shades of green along one side of the 25-mile Gastein Valley, just over an hour’s drive from Salzburg. Jade-green thickets of woodland cluster on the mountainsides as the sun lights up emerald meadows speckled with cows, goats and sheep. It’s certainly not the view I’m used to on an average Friday. But that’s the whole idea behind the collection of Weekend Adventure Breaks from Ramble Worldwide, which marks its 80th anniversary this year. Running from Friday to Monday, they are designed to give time-poor clients a heady burst of adventure without using


too much of their annual leave. The collection was added last year and has grown to include the Sierra Nevada and Picos de Europa mountains in Spain, Bavaria region of Germany, the UK and the Swiss Alps.


ALPINE AIR I rarely took my eyes off that view of the Gastein Valley as we plodded along, passing through riots of wildflowers and under the creaking, watchful gaze of spruce and pine trees. As the path weaved its way through the hillside, it wasn’t long before I glimpsed the end point of our walk – Gadaunerer Gorge. Voted one of Austria’s best views by locals in 2024, that claim was hard to argue with once I’d spied the gorge’s 340m-high²


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