mallorca

what a wonderful mobil work opportunity from the spanish holiday island mallorca.

i used to work 1, 2 or even 3 weeks a year from premantura (istria, HR) in a 2 room appartment the last few years. this time we have decided to try the hotel cala fornells close to peguera (sometimes paguera) in mallorca, spain, ES. as my wife was already 3 times in that hotel few years ago, we knew the mobile work would function fine ...

despite plenty of work, there is still some vaccation aspect here as i can go to swim in the sea before breakfast, in my lunch break, after work ... i couldnt be all day at the beach, anyway. and yes, there is a weekend too! 

today (saturday) we've just visited a small beach in  forest area just 15 minutes away from our hotel. we could swim nicely as there were no motor boats almost all the time, i tried out my old snorkeling equipment and after that collected 2 bags of (mostly plastic) trash ... later rested a lot ... so a really nice day for a nature&environment pretection activist, wouldnt you say? well, for tomorrow we have booked an organized day trip to the capitol palma and to the small hills in the northwest of the island around valldemossa ...

our stops this time: 

• cala fornells bay
• calo del monjo bay
• peguera / paguera
• valldemossa (best known as the stay for the french baroness george sand and her lover, the polish componist frederik chopin)
• santa maria del cami (nothing special out there. we have just visited a weekly market, i liked more its church)
• aristocratic family's rural house / castle
• (there was the rafael 'rafa' nadal's tennis academy in manacor, but we've just drove beside it)
• porto cristo caves
• palma, the capital of mallorca & the baleares islands. btw, that name comes from the sligshot weapon as the mallorquines were masters of throwing small stones with their ropes at their enemies ...
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hotel cala fornells 

more pictures (soon) here 😀

peitlerkofel 2875m + neustift abbey, IT

as every august for 6 or 7 years, my wife provides a seminar for teachers in neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella) in south tirol (südtirol), italy, IT. my highlight this year was the hiking tour around the peitlerkofel mountain (2875m) in the dolomiti area of the italian alps.

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

early morning at peitlerkofel 2875m

after 5 houtrs we've reached the end of our walk around the peitlerkofel

neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella)

the engelsburg (angels' castle) at the neustift monastery

more pictures later here.

traunsee, ebensee, langbathsee, wolfgangsee - AT

traunsee, ebensee, langbathsee, wolfgangsee ~ oberösterreich (upper austria), AT. 

btw, which of these four 'lakes' (see) is not a lake? ... got it? well, ebensee is just a name of the village at in southernmost part of lake traunsee that means here is everything flat ('eben') 😆

btw, the lake traunsee build by the traun river is the deepest lake (completely located) in austria with 191m.

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

lake langbathsee

view from our plain & fine guesthouse 'gasthof roitner' in ebensee

the village / small city of ebensee

lake traunsee as seen from ebensee

lake wolfgangsee, view to the north

lake wolfgangsee, view to the south

more pictures later here.

castle plumlov, CZ

what a nice stop over in plumlov (plumenau, plumau, blumenau) a historical hotel villa at an artificial lake plumlov in moravia, czech republic, CZ ... we've met a friend of mine petr who lives in nearby mohelnice (müglitz), we've had a romantic dinner at the lake side terrace in our almost empty hotel (the weather was not good enough for swimming) ... .

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

castle plumlov above the fishpond

pirates at the fishpond 😄

castle plumlov

hotel plumlov at the reservoir dam

city of mikulov (nikolsburg), moravia, CZ

more pictures later here.

castle brunow (schloss braunau) + lodz + taraska, PL

... there are more braunaus in the world than just hitler's birth city braunau in today's austria, you know? where? 

• in the czech republic (called broumov today. we have just visited the nearby rock formations in adersbach) 
• in poland. we've spent 2 nights in castle hotel brunow, silesia ~ schloss braunau, schlesien, PL. well, in lower silesia (niederslesien, slask dolny) we have also visited:
• small city lwowek slaski (löwenberg)
• the castle grodziec (gröditzburg) in grodziec (gröditzberg)
• city of boleslawiec (bunzlau)
• later in central poland:
• lodz
• ruda bugaj
• the art of living's ashram in taraska. 

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights from poland later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay? our stops 

 

 castle hotel brunow, silesia ~ schloss braunau, schlesien, PL

castle hotel brunow, silesia ~ schloss braunau, schlesien, PL

castle grodziec (gröditzburg)

a historical show fight between knights out there

town hall + market place in lwowek slaski (löwenberg)

town hall restaurant in lwowek slaski (löwenberg)

a local beer from the just few meters distant brewery

town hall restaurant in lwowek slaski (löwenberg)

real or AI generated? who knows?

real or AI generated? who knows?

more pictures (much later) here.