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…
Back in Stuttgart from the Summer 2016 trip and the sky was blue, the sun was out and it was warm – very warm. Could not really start to work with such nice Fall weather. Julie and Kaveh where in Heidelberg to visit family. A good excuse to run from work for a week. Took…
Trpanj is a small village in south-eastern Croatia. My father bought a house at the beach many moons ago. Melissa spend many summer holidays there and she decided to get married there as well. That is why we are here now – the last stop of this Summer Trip. Statue of Maria at the harbour…
Today we get to the final destination of this trip: The Peljesac peninsula. And we are here for a wedding. On the way we stopped to look at famous Počitelj in Bosnia and Herzegovina and at the War Monument on the peninsula 15 years after the war ended one still finds evidence of it everywhere….
Today we drove from Plitvice Lakes to the Jablanicko Jezero or Jablaničko jezero as the locals call it. It did rain like in South East Asia. I never saw that much water in one day driving. Sometimes we had to slow down to 40 km/h so the windscreen wipers could cope with the water. And…
Plitvice Lakes National Park or Nacionalni park PlitviÄka jezera as the locals call it is the largest national park in Croatia and one of the oldest national parks in South-east Europe. The name of the park comes from its lakes that are arranged in cascades. The size and water flow of the Plitvice Lakes does…
We did get up quite early and put every thing in the car after breakfast. Lots of traffic but we made our way towards Slovenia and further down into Croatia Omladinsko Jezero in Croatia In the late afternoon I checked my app to look for a camp ground. We did found one to Otok Ostarijski…
Part number 6 of the 2016 visit to Venice in Italy. It is also the last day in Venice. The next morning we drove further east towards Slovenia. So lets dive into the last day! We are on the last leg of this map Graffiti at the Calle Avvocati At the Canal Grande looking towards…
Day Two in Venice – Part II This is the second part of the Summer Trip 2016 – Venice Day II pictures. We walked towards Piazza San Marco and went into the St Mark’s basilica and continues our walk towards the east of Venice. Here is the map of todays walking. Way less as on…
Part four of the 2016 visit to Venice in Italy. Day Two in Venice Today we did walk less and did sit a bit more and watched the people. That does look a bit like that: A few Pictures of People in Venice Let’s go Amigos – over the bridge into the small streets of…
Part three of the 2016 visit to Venice in Italy. We are still on this map: Our walking tour today Chiesa di San Rocco The Chiesa di San Rocco or Church of Saint Roch was built between 1489 and 1508 by Bartolomeo Bon the Younger. It was substantially altered and received a baroque facelift in…