The last afternoon in Florence for this trip. We continue where the last Blog Post ended and keep walking over the bridge to look a bit on the other side of the river. At the end of Piazzale degli Uffizi Florentine sculptor and master goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini. It stands on top of a fountain at…
The last few days with blue sky before the Winter 2017/2018 trip. Where to go? What to do? Over the Alps where the sky is still blue and the temperature is fine – at last in the daytime! So Italy is was – a nice road trip before Asia. Here are a few pictures: At…
Mountains – mountains in fall! Steiner called for a weekend in Oberstdorf to walk and talk and have some beers in the evening. The forecast was looking good so Friday noon we hit the Autobahn and went over the Alb to the Alps! Arrived in the early afternoon so we walked a bit. Traditional house…
Lago di Resia or Lake Reschen After a good breakfast at Apart Pension Bergfrieden in Nauders we pointed the car south towards Riva del Garda and crossed the border to Italy. The fourteenth century bell tower of Graun is all you can see from the village after the dam construction. The Swiss company Elektrowatt wanted…
Coming back from Heidelberg I was still not motivated to start working. A few days more – only a few please. So I asked my boss and he was not really happy but in the end he said: Yes. Great! (It really does help when you are your own boss!) Heike was never at the…
What better to end the European travel season than a trip to the mountains? We went to Nauders in Austria. There is a little hut from the Deutscher Alpenverein which you can rent. It sleeps about 12 people but we like to go with 3 or 4 only. Enough to enjoy the place. There is…
Yes – get up in the middle of the night girls and make some noise. We managed to be almost the first at the breakfast table. I will never understand!Since I offered to take food, wine and beer up the mountain they gave me most of it. Together with the camera gear it was over…
I was fresh out of jet lag from the trip to India when we went to the Alps a week after my plane got back from New Delhi. Steiner did pick me up and I spend the night at their place. It was Anjas birthday so we had Esslinger Champagne, Pizza and beer. And of…
Sun set Good morning over the clouds The girls came over and they did bring some boys as well! Alpen Punk They even did help with the tomatoes Fall is on the way Who is that? Still hanging around Looking down DJ Battle Last Morning More shoes? And small ones – AGAIN???
Since the forecast was not tooooo good i opted only for the iPhone and did leave the big Canon back home. That was a try and i am kind of happy but if i really want to take pictures i would not start with the phone camera. As long as the sky is blue and…
With less than 2 weeks left we had to shorten the trip a bit and did not drive all the way down to the coast like we did last year. That opened a new route towards Italy and new mountains for us to see. But 1st we stopped at a lake and did see that…