We’re Kati and Sabrina, the founders of Moon & Honey Travel, the hiking blog for travelers. Sabrina is originally from California, and Kati is from Austria. We currently live in Vienna.
As bloggers, we’re committed to creating in-depth, honest, and useful travel guides that empower you to confidently plan trips to new destinations. Our goal is to give you all the tools and information you need to plan unique and unforgettable adventures, whether it be a road trip, a multi-day trek, or a car-free hiking-themed trip.
As hikers and travelers, we value pristine landscapes, independent exploration, authentic experiences, and safety.
We’re not into counting countries, or seeing top attractions. We’re interested in deepening our knowledge of the places we love and sharing those insights and discoveries with you.
And, of course, we LOVE hiking! Hiking connects us to the earth and to ourselves. We believe hiking is healing.
Thank you for reading our blog!! Moon & Honey Travel is a labor of love. Every guide has been written by us. We do not publish guest blogs, or outsource content creation.
“Moon & Honey” is a word play on “honeymoon.” It’s about honeymooning forever, hopefully on our feet, both in the mountains and by the sea.
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About Sabrina Brett
I’m Sabrina, a spirited traveler on a quest to hike in the most picturesque and pristine alpine and coastal destinations across Europe.
I grew up in Monterey Bay along the central coast of California, but spent my summers hiking and swimming around South Lake Tahoe. Not surprisingly, my heart is eternally divided between the mountains and the sea.
In college, I studied music and political science (BA/BS). Afterwards, I worked in a marketing agency in San Francisco.
Between 2016 and 2018, Kati and I moved to Germany, backpacked across Asia, explored New Zealand in a campervan, road tripped across the Balkans, and then fell in love with the Alps.
I created this blog in 2017 to help like-minded travelers experience new and exciting ways to travel authentically (e.g. hut-to-hut hiking).
When I’m not traveling, or writing about traveling, you’ll find me curled up with a cup of Earl Grey, a plate of cookies, and a fantasy book.
Favorite Hiking Destination | Italian Dolomites
Favorite Hut to Hut Hikes | Alpstein High Trail in Switzerland and the Triglav National Park Traverse in Slovenia
Favorite Hiking-Themed Road Trips | Picos de Europa Road Trip, Spain and Faroe Islands Road Trip
Most Challenging Hiking Experience | Getting salmonella, an E. coli infection, Shigella, and Parvovirus B19 while trekking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal.
Something Interesting | I love to paint.
Favorite TV Shows | Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries / Most period dramas
About Katrin Walzl
Born and raised in Austria, I spent my youth playing football (soccer) and studying sport science. Later I worked in an advertising agency in Vienna until I met and fell in love with Sabrina in San Francisco in 2015 and we decided to explore the world together.
As a “Flachländerin” from Lower Austria (no mountains over here), my enthusiasm for hiking only developed in the course of our travels together.
I love the tranquility of nature, enjoy observing and photographing wildlife in the Alps and prefer hiking uphill to downhill. I also love dogs and follow almost every sport, much to Sabrina’s chagrin.
Favorite Hiking Destination | Italian Dolomites
Favorite Hut to Hut Hikes | Schladminger Tauern High Trail in Styria and Rätikon High Trail in Vorarlberg, Austria.
Favorite Hiking-Themed Road Trips | Montenegro Road Trip and Mallorca Road Trip
Most Challenging Hiking Experience | Hiking through a dangerous snow blizzard on Stage 3 of the Alta Via 1 in the Italian Dolomites.
Something Interesting | I played Fußball (soccer) for almost 20 years. I was part of the Austrian National Team.
Favorite TV Shows | Ted Lasso
We Travel to Hike
We’re obsessed with traveling and hiking in the Alps, especially in Appenzell (Switzerland), Vorarlberg (Austria), the Dolomites (Italy), the Julian Alps (Slovenia), and Bavaria (Germany). There is no place in the world that combines nature and luxury as sublimely as the European Alps.
While the Alps occupy a special place in our hearts, we also love hiking in other regions of Europe like Calanques National Park in Southern France, Picos de Europa National Park in Northern Spain, Tenerife and Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, the Vicentine Coast of Portugal, and the Dinaric Alps of Montenegro.
In 2025, we will continue to uncover new dazzling hiking destinations across Europe.
Hiking is a Cultural Experience
One of the most enriching aspects of hiking in Europe is the opportunity to engage with captivating cultural traditions.
Our blog is stuffed with insider tips on how to best experience folk festivals, local food and wine, and other interesting events, whilst hiking in Europe.
Across Europe, transhumance is alive and well. This is the ancient practice of seasonally moving livestock from one grazing area to another.
In the Alps, many hiking trails traverse mountain pastures, often marked with alpine pasture huts and sometimes dairies. Here, hikers have an opportunity to eat local specialities like Rösti with Appenzeller cheese in Appenzell, Kaspressknödel cheese dumplings in Salzburg, and Schlutzkrapfen ravioli in Val Gardena and Alta Badia in Northern Italy.
At the end of the alpine summer season, locals celebrate the safe return of cows, goats, and other livestock with a homecoming parade, music, food, and general merriment.
In the wine regions of Eastern Austria, hikers can walk through vineyards to Heuriger wine taverns to experience local wine culture. In the Wachau Valley, you can follow the Wachau World Heritage Trail between wine villages. In Vienna, many of the official city walks lead to Vienna’s wine taverns.
In Northern France, Brittany’s coastal hiking trails pass by megaliths, historic castles and lighthouses, and creperies.
In Cornwall, England, the South West Coast Path traces the stunning Cornish coast, passing by historic inns, tea rooms offering cream tea, and bakeries selling pasties.
Kati and I travel to hike. And, we hike to eat. In our opinion, a great hiking trail either leads to a managed mountain hut, a seaside café, or a wine tavern.
