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Seasoned CURVES readers will know that we traveled to Austria before in our first ever issue. Several years and many more trips around the world later, the time has come for a new edition. CURVES has changed a little. It has become more grown-up, calmer, and more mature. At the same time, we’ve discovered new highlights and moments along that initial route and wanted to include them. The aim is to tell a new story. What’s more, the details of different route layouts seem more important to us now; we have new routes in mind that we’d like to introduce to you. And that’s why this thoroughly revised new edition was a natural fit. Actually, “CURVES Austria Mark II” is a lot more than just that. It’s a completely new CURVES perspective on Austria. It’s only natural that we’re so drawn to Felix Austria, “Happy Austria”: the border crossings at Lake Constance, in the Karwendel Mountains, near Kufstein, and Salzburg are all located not far from CURVES’ Munich headquarters. So, when we make for the Alps for a long weekend, it’s not uncommon for us to head to Austria: to Vorarlberg, Tyrol, or the Salzburg region. And there, in addition to the mighty top acts and superstars among the Alpine passes, we also find so many little mountain passages, panoramic routes, and side roads worth exploring that a trip to Austria is always worthwhile. Even familiar features constantly reveal themselves in new ways, and the variety of options for traveling over and through the Alps is simply breathtaking. The journey begins directly south of the Zugspitze. The area between the Allgäu High Alps and the Ammergau Alps is so diverse that it is worth a weekend trip all of its own. The mountain roads of Vorarlberg and the Silvretta High Alpine Road lead us to the Inn Valley – only to really get going from there: Ötztal and Timmelsjoch, over the Jaufen Pass to South Tyrol... And that’s not even in Austria!  You heard right. We repeatedly ignored borders on this journey, even driving from the Triglav National Park in Slovenia all the way to the Italian Adriatic coast near Trieste. When you’re in the flow, things like that happen very quickly. It’s known as “soulful driving.”