Austrian delights for the non-skier

IMAGINE the temptation of visiting a chocolate factory yet not allowed to taste the product?

As a keen but cautious skier of many years standing (correction... falling !) I had honestly never visualised going to Austria’s Tirol, without actually taking to the slopes.

Still recovering from breaking my shoulder a year ago (yes, it was a ski accident!), memories of enticing picture-postcard villages, ludicrously blue skies, delicious Austrian comfort food and the promise of ‘re-energising’ wellness and safe outdoor pursuits was too good to miss. Donning skis and leaden boots, careering down steep icy slopes had for now lost its allure.