We're looking for an English speaking guide/driver who can take us to some ancestral villages in Eastern Styria. Does anyone know of a current online directory? Most of the links I've found through searches to date look very outdated or are focused on the major cities in Austria.
Thanks in advance!
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I guess you will need to write an email to several guides specifying your needs in detail and decide then based on their answers.
https://www.findaguide.at/?bundesland=5&sprache=Englisch&gebiet=Oststeiermark
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Lexington, KY (formerly Southeast US)
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Do you have a "base city/town" for the trip? Looking for a guide/driver based there would probably help out. If Graz is your base, you may contact Graz Guides. It is a large organization with multiple guides and offers planned tours in Styria. Perhaps they can help you with what you want to do? Maribor is a town in Slovenian Styria; there may be a guide there who can help, too.
Die Graz Guides website: https://www.grazguides.at/en/
Rick's guides are not much help here, unfortunately. In a Nov 23, 2007 blog post, he commented on breaking up the then Germany & Austria guide book into a Germany book and a Vienna book: "I... don’t want to write an Austria book because I don’t like much of Austria (or at least don’t want to be an expert on Graz and Klagenfurt)."
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Thank you wmt1 for that link - exactly what I was looking for!
Dave - We are looking at perhaps 2 days in Graz and then moving to Feldbach as our base for a few days. I see Graz Guides that you recommended is also on the list at the link from wmt1.
Your help is much appreciated!