Traveled the Inn Valley, up over the Alps and into Switzerland. The ride is meant to be incredibly scenic, but the cloud was low and so the top of the pass was traversed in thick mist. Still it was an incredible journey, three hours to cross the mountain range.

Switzerland is all the stereotypes come true. The houses all look like Cuckoo Clocks, the shops are full of wrist watches and chocolate, and even the cows have bells around their necks.

The city of Zurich holds a large amount of the worlds wealth in vaults beneath its streets. Maybe that explains why everything is incredibly expensive. £12 for a burger, grief.

Spent the day roaming the hills just outside the city. I went up the mountain to look at the view but ended doing a 12 mile walk. Only lost the path once, and ended up in a peat bog. Still all part of the experience. Back to London tomorrow.

Caught the train up to Innsbruck in the heart of the Tyrol. Another beautiful place, with the city lying in a wide tranquil valley surrounded by incredible mountains.

The old town is chock block full of the usual palaces, those Emperors sure did like to get around. One of the rooms in the palace here is painted with portraits of all 16 of Marie Teresa's children including the ill-fated Marie Antoinette, who came to a sticky end a few years later.

You can get up to the top of the mountains incredibly easily thanks to the funicular and Cable cars which whisk you from the centre of the city, to the sky station some 1500m higher. An amazing view with the whole valley stretching out below as you look down on planes gliding into the airport and para-gliders soaring on the thermals.

Climbed up to the Hohensalzburg, the castle on the cliff which dominated the town of Salzburg and the country for miles around. I say climbed, I got the funicular up, which saved my legs and left some energy for traipsing around the town later.

It was from here that the Prince Archbishops ruled the province of Salzburg, in the name of the Holy Roman Empire, for hundreds of years, just becoming part of the Austrian Empire in 1805.

They certainly had some wonderful views from up here as you can see for miles across the Salzburg basin towards Untersberg mountain.

Arrived in Salzburg the city of mountains, Mozart and the Sound of Music.

Their most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus, is the one they are most proud of, and his birthplace is now Museum where you can see the violin he used to play as a four year old and several locks of his hair. He certainly was a precocious child, an expert pianist by the age of four and a composer by the age of five. And he certainly got around, travelling all over Europe. Is fact in his relatively short 36 years alive, he spent a third of his time traveling.

By contrast the Sound of Music is not a film that has been regularly seen here, mainly because of disputes over the films accuracy. The tourists love it though and the locations look much as they did nearly 50 years ago,

Took the train up to Linz on Upper Austria, a lovely city on the banks of the Danube.

Hitler wasn't born here, that took place a few km away, but he spent his childhood roaming the alleys and lanes of the town and quite considered it home. I don't know what turned a young Bavarian boy into a homicidal maniac but it can't have been the views which are stupendous.

Walked up to the top of the hill to see a wonderful vista of the Danube sweeping around the city. Saw when I got to the top that there was a tram which came all the way up from the town square. Well it was a nice walk anyway.

Took a trip round some of the former homes of the rulers of the Austrian Empire before it came to an end in November 2011

Schonbrunn Palace stands a few KM outside the city, the former home of Emperor Franz Joseph, where you can see his rooms and the bed in which he died in 1916, in the midst of World War II. He used to get up at 4am every day. Quite why no-one seems to know but he lived until he was 86 so it can't have been that bad for him.

He lived to see his brother executed in Mexico, his son commit suicide in a royal hunting lodge and his wife assassinated, so not the happiest of lives.

Took advantage of the free bike hire to cycle back to the city, where there was a big festival going on in the main square.

Arrived in Vienna after a brief flight from Heathrow. Fantastic views of the Vienna woods as we circled around the city, looking very picturesque and serene below, a ambiance that is maybe not helped by a bloody great jet passing overhead.

There's a very quick train service into the city, from leaving the plane to entering the hotel room it took about 45 minutes. No queues at immigration, please note Mrs May.

Took a walk around the city where there are some wonderful old buildings. Visited the prior home of Beethoven. Not as nice or as informative as his birthplace in Bonn, but interesting to see where the maestro lived.

There is an amusement Park near my hotel so went up in the chair lift for a great view over the city just as the sun was going down.