AUSTRIA’S ALPINE OUTBACK
Oct 16, 2018
3 minutes
The cowbells that ring like wind chimes across the ravines of Vorarlberg’s Great Walser Valley swing from the necks of impeccably groomed, café au lait coloured cows. We’re in Austria’s Alpine Outback, so to speak, a remote region where things happen simultaneously on small and grand scales: a Walser farmer’s dairy herd, tiny by Australian standards, might consist of just six or eight cows, yet looming above them are snow-veined mountains soaring towards 3,000 metres.
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