jaro gruber ;-)

Saturday, April 6, 2024

zugspitze, DE-BY, 2963m

there were plus 27°C in munich this early april and we have decided to feel the real winter at the snowy zugspitze (2963m), instead. just to close my above average skiing season accordingly, you know? btw, you still remember my sellaronda & plose experience in soouth tirol earlier this year? ☃

i've been skiing at zugspitze in early february, too. thus there will be few older pictures as well. will you call the difference? 😄

view from the zugspitze to the south. it is still in bavaria, but the

distant mountains on the right side behind are already in tirol (austria).

zugspitze, ski area zugspitzplatt (weißes tal, the white valley)

spring in garmisch-partenkirchen (GaPa)

the church of grainau => left to right: alpspitze, waxenstein, zugspitze.

waxenstein is in the front, so this massif looks even bigger than its

two much higher fellows. lets call it the wonder of perspective 😇

up there today

brunntal valley as seen from the old platter lift (schlepplift)

the weather forecast for today + the best of all wives?

two of us

mr. chamois (gams)

the small chapel out there

lunch time 300m below the summit (center) and the meteorological

station at the schneeferner mountain above the restaurant (left)

schneeferner mountain

the very top. here germany meets austria, you know?

bavaria = bayern, BY, germany DE

tirol, austria, AT

lake eibsee, bayern

mr. jackdaw aka hr. dohle (alpendohle = alpine chough)

the igloo hotel. ice cold ⛇

soooo nice up there, you know?

the snow covered top of the wetterwandeck mountain

wetterwandeck (right) + weisses tal (= the white valley)

skiing on february, 3rd ... i've checked the weather few days before, of course ...

good-bye, zugspitze 💖

more pictures here.

zugspitze, a year ago, april 30th, 2023.

Friday, March 29, 2024

unseco heritage jawor (jauer) + easter in poland

easter in poland, our stops this time were:

jawor (jauer) - unseco heritage wooden evangelic church
lodz - manufaktura
alexsandrow lodzki
castle lasow (schloss sissi)
zgorzelec (görlitz) + border nysa river (neise) ~ i've been to the german part of görlitz many years ago and can still remember its nice rectangular old city square, but i've no digital memories, pictures or the like i could link here. sorry for that ...

highway bridge in wroclaw (breaslau).

you still remember the dwarfs of wrocLOVE?

... COMING SOON ...

more pictures soon here.

Monday, March 25, 2024

erzgebirge, DE

erzgebirge (ore mountains, krusne hory) in saxony, sachsen, DE-SN => we lived in the hotel altes zollhaus in neuhermsdorf (aka hermsdorf / erzgebirge). it used to be a toll house between saxony and bohemia when established in 1343, you know?

i've enjoyed 1 week of mobile work + yoga + arts exhibition in out hotel + walking around in the forest + the visit of the frauenstein castle ruins. it was also nice to speak slovak to the many czech employees at reception & restaurant, to enjoy the good food @ 'our' altes zollhaus and to visit old friends from munich in komotau, CZ. of course, we tanked also the cheap & tasty beer 'gambrinus' + cheap gas behind the border in the czech republic 🍺🚗😉

what else? the snow fell in the 1st night and lasted for 1.5 days, so we could walk in white surroundings for the last time this winter season and find a former railway road, the ski jumping hill (sprungschanze) zollhausschanze and of course also the small unremarkable hirschbach (polterbach) creek, which marks the border between germany and czech republic.