ostrava + trest + rostejn + telc, CZ

we have spent our time in CZ (czech republic) almost completely in the eastern part called morava (moravia, mähren).

• former baroque storage (barokni spejchar, barocker speicher) from 1646, today a guesthouse + restaurant in tlucna (close to plzen / pilsen)
• city of ostrava in upper silesia (also known as ostrau or till 1941 mährisch ostrau)
• castle trest (triesch) => franz kafka + josef alois schumpeter + phantasic swimming in flooded old stone quarry (steinbruch, kamenolom) in cenkov
• castle rostejn / rostyn / rosenstein (built 1339 for the brothers Meinhard + Ulrich IV. von Neuhaus)
• unesco heritage city of telc (teltsch)

castle trest (schloss triesch) => alois schumpeter, franz kafka, ... 

sweet water fishery + wine region southern moravia, ... 

... coming soon ...

ps: paul kuppelwieser, the austrian manager in rockefeller's steel works in vitkovice (ostrava) was the one who retired at age of 52 and in about 1860 bouhght the then austrian and today croatian brioni (brijun) islands in istria (malaria => robert koch => nix malaria, tito, zoo, cadillac, ZOO, arts, ...)

... barokni spejchar, lunch in tlucna, CZ ~ let's present my no. 1 non-alcoholic beer, bernard svestka aka bernard plum beer 🍺

more pictures (soon sorted / edited / censored) here.

our last trip via CZ in august 2023 with 4 nights in 2 different castles here.

sulislaw castle (schloss zülzhof) + kepno + lodz + piotrkow trybunalski + taraska + wisla mala, PL

what a wonderful time spent this summer in poland (polen, polska), PL💓

• sulislaw castle aka schloß zülzhof in lower silesia (slask, schlesien) => beautiful 😍
• the wooden church in michalice + the shallow lake jezioro michalickie close to namyslow
• city of kepno (kempen, langenvort, lagenfurt)
• lodz - looks nicer and nicer with every our visit 😇
• piotrkow trybunalski (1217 - 2017 - 2024) ~ the city of churches
• art of living's ashram in taraska
• swimming in the pilica river (taraska) 
• cistercian abbey in sulejow (podklasztorze) founded in 1176
• swimming in the pilica river again (sulejow, podklasztorze)
• artificial lake jezioro goczalkowicke at the wisla river (vistula, weichsel) in the village wisla mala (deutsch weichsel) + a wooden church from 1775
• industrial upper silesia with black coal mines + electric power plants + iron & steel works + really bad highways => not nice at all if you asked me

castle sulislaw aka schloß zülzhof ... 

... COMING SOON ... 

(to do: insert picture from my google photos album .... btw, inserting pictures via mobile phone would be fine, on the computer via chrome or edge not possible yet 😟)

... unfortunately, i need some help when creating a blog post: i can't insert my google photos to my blogger blogs (and i've already deleted cache, cookies ... and allowed blogger.com all popups)

sulislaw

cistercian abbey in sulejow (podklasztorze)

coming soon ... 

... a wooden church from 1775 in wisla mala (deutsch weichsel), upper silesia, PL ...

.. town hall (?) in the city of brzeg, PL

bridge over the odra river (oder) in the city of brzeg, PL

a wooden church in michalice, close to the city of namyslow

till then, enjoy our insights + pictures from (last) summer 2023 in PL😄

more pictures are in my google photos album HERE

zug, switzerland, CH

our youngest daughter works for 5 months in zurich, switzerland. thus we've enjoyed the opportunity to visit her for few days. 

btw, my last visit to switzerland was in 2013 (=> pilatus, lucerne - luzern, rheinfall, schaffhausen). no wonder my CHF notes 💸 were outdated today ... and the waiter who didnt acceppt them, told me friendly i should try to exchange them in the swiss national bank (SNB). btw, the coins are still fine & valid. why? maybe because they have some inner value which paper has not? e.g. the (partly) silver 2 CHF coins from 1967 (and older) contain silver valued 7 CHF today ... of course, you will hardly ever find any of them in your pocket as everyone keeps them out of circulation 😂

enjoy here the historical city of zug + the lake zuger see => extremely low taxes, many millionaires, even more expensive than zurich. a beer 🍻 in a pizzeria costs 9 CHF vs. 7 to 8 CHF in zurich vs. 4 to 5 CHF in germany. okay, the swiss didnt take part in WWI & WWII, so none of their cities was destroyed in the last century by war and thus so most of them have nice historical centers, you know?

unlike zurich, we've had nice sunny weather today. we've enjoyed to swim in the lake and also the pictures turned out well. as all my insights are written in the blog post about zurich, here you'll find pictures. to be honest, we have spent the most time in the public bath seebad seeliken 🏊

the western part of the lake zuger see

a staircase takes you under the surface of the lake 😄

a tower gate ...

.. the upper floor

... the ground floor

the town hall (rathaus) with a a war scene from 1422

(johann landtwing rettet das banner von zug) 

seebad seeliken 🏊

more CH pictures here.

zurich, switzerland, CH

our youngest daughter👶works for 5 months in zurich, switzerland. we've enjoyed the opportunity to visit her together with her boy-friend for few days. zürich is just 3 hours away from munich, you know? enjoy pictures from zug, CH + pictures & insights from zürich in this blog post below:

btw, my last visit to switzerland was in 2013 (=> pilatus, lucerne - luzern, rheinfall, schaffhausen). no wonder my CHF notes 💸 were outdated today ... and the waiter who didnt acceppt them, told me friendly i should try to exchange them in the swiss national bank (SNB). btw, the coins are still fine & valid. why? maybe because they have some inner value which paper has not? e.g. the (partly) silver 2 CHF coins from 1967 (and older) contain silver valued 7 CHF today ... of course, you will hardly ever find any of them in your pocket as everyone keeps them out of circulation 😂

zürich, the city of the rich, beautiful, self-confident, money-oriented folks? yes, but not only that. i've been by accident also in one another world ... at a punk / LGBTQ / refugees party in our neighborhood in an occupied house waiting to be torn down and replaced by s.th. bigger soon ... as i didnt had enough current swiss money at that time, there was a unknown lady who has paid the entry fee of 20 CHF for me at that club like / half private party without knowing me. she even refused to take any euros instead. maybe she loved my soccer-like dress 'team world peace 01'? or me? or was that really a community where the people believe it isnt nice to not let someone in only because he/she doesnt have any money? what do you think? 💚😇🍀

unlike germany and eastern europe, in switzerland there is an active + noticeable jewish community.

did we left s.th. for our next visit? yes, of course. we plan to go to the top of the (small) uetliberg hill (870m) to enjoy the view over zurich and all the surrounding lands & lakes. next to the landesmuseum castle & museum close to the main train station. and i will personally try to find out if the swiss earned their conspicuous wealth after WW II by stealing some of the the deposited and never recalled money from european jews, german nazis, oligarchs & dictators and the like? or did they reach it more likely in some honest way by making business instead of wars and huge military spendings? who could help me with any reliable opinion?😇

btw, we didnt have had a nice weather, so all the pictures are somehow rainy & grey, you know? and we didnt swum in the lake züricher see either as both of us were a little bit sick and suffering some slight flu infection ...

the north-western part of the lake züricher see in zürich, CH

entering 'our' part of zürich, die enge (= the tightness) ~

bridge quaibrücke over the lake / limmat river

the train station zürich enge

me, having a drink with my daughter on the way from our place to hers 💖

me, exploring the neighborhood by night

the train station zürich-giesshübel and the occupied small white house over there

alternative (half-private) (heavy smokers) party ...

optimum + vision appartments from outside. not any nice, is it?

... and from inside 😱

the best of all wives 💕

arts? mind control? both?

arts? fear? both? our stay was the optimum (or vision?) appartmnent house. modern but not

any nice. anyway, it is just a 10 minutes walk in the direction lake zürichsee to our daughter 🕙

the active + noticeable jewish community in front of our windows ...

in germany we mostly have foreign muslim communities

a rabbi?

district enge: nice houses, lake side, beach bars ...

our daughter's back yard ...

district enge, villa schönberg in the park rieterpark

district enge, a sphinx in front of the museum rietberg in the rieterpark

villa & museum rietberg

district enge

headquarters of Swiss Re re-insurance company.

my youngest daugther + my youngest brother work for them currently

headqarters of the zurich Z insurance company

district enge, the lake side

swimming in the lake? maybe next time ...

lake side park in the enge district

still the lake side ...

switzerland is famous for its clocks, isnt it?

entering the old city: the street fraumünsterstrasse is parallel to the

 bahnhofstrasse and much nicer, if you asked me

the street bahnhofstr with the headquarters of UBS & credit suisse 

is s.th. i still remember from a former visit some 20-25 years ago

some youth folk music festival at the old city town square.

a beer in a plastic cup costs 6 CFH ...

the limmat river?

we are still in the old city district

district oerlikon?

leaving the old city district for 'our' beloved enge ...

... here we go 🍔🍹🍻

district enge, the north-western part of the lake züricher see

'our' river sihl is overshadowed by a highway => sooo saaad 😓

a rolls-royce RR in our street ...

the train station zürich-giesshübel, the old zitt motor company

 is most likely bankrupt today ...

huge appartment houses are strange, you know?

... maybe s.th. from one of my ukraine / russia telgram channels?

more pictures here.

tags: zurich, zürich, züricher see, zürichsee, switzerland, schweiz, swiss, CH, CHF

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