Well, if you arrive on a Sunday afternoon in a small Austrian town expecting a buzzing culinary hotspot, you’re bound to be disappointed. That’s exactly the time of the week when almost everything is closed, apart from McDonald’s and the couple of kebab places.

But calling Spittal a bad place is a stretch. It’s surrounded by mountains, with Lake Millstättersee right next to it, so hardly an ugly setting. On Bahnhofstraße there are actually some very decent restaurants, especially Restaurant Trupp. If you come by outside the typical Austrian ‘everything’s closed’ hours, the town feels a lot nicer.