winter hiking tour in wallgau, BY

what a wonderful winter hiking tour at the isar river in wallgau, southern bavaria. we walked just for 1,5 hours to the maxhütte cottage at the fahrenberg hill. the cottage was open, so we could enjoy a dinner and than come fast back to our car. why only such a short distance? we have been 4 people: my daughter, her husband, my TWO MONTHS OLD GRANDSON tibsi tibor leon .. yes, it was the first real outdoor activity for this small man, my dears 😄⛄🍀🌞

just to make the chrandchild story complety, all of us have been cross country skiing in winter 2022, too ... at a time my daughter did not know she is already pregnant. our small grandson will probably become a winter sportsman genius, won't he? ⛄

there is not much snow in munich + bavaria the last few years, thus we've really enjoeyd this cold winter day, not only our small one who was carried by his father all way up 😉

isar river

maxhütte cottage, 1022m, at the fahrenberg hill

view down to wallgau from the maxhütte cottage

there are few tables in honor of magdalena neuner, the famous german biathlon champion from the nearby garmisch-partenkirchen. she won many, many competitions between 2006 and 2012, especially 2 golden winter olympics medals in vancouver / canada 2010 and 4 golden world championship medals.

back to wallgau

the small hill is the fahrenberg, where the maxhütte feasted us so well

our day in the hills is over, lets go back to munich 🚙

few more pictures here.

fischbach castle (zamek karpniki), silesia, PL

wonderful 3 nights stay in hotel schloss fischbach castle (zamek karpniki), lower silesia, PL 😄

this small castle hotel was recommended to me by a colleague because of its really exceptional cousine. i liked not only the food, but also its corridors full of nooks and crannies where we have lost our way so many times, its mini spa with toxic thermal water (do not drink!) + a huge wooden outdoor bath tube + especially the possibillity to use the 3 knight rooms on the 1st floor at night 👾 for games, drinking or working on computer after the restaurant closed its doors at about 10 p.m. 

the nearby city of hirschberg (jelenia gora) and the nice falkenberge hills + hiking paths were also interesting to explore, even if it is a little bit cold outside in january ⛄

medieval place, huge rooms, tasty food

what a room 😄

there was a restaurant in castle fischbach, too

my internet cafe @night 😄

there was a small spa, too

the carp pond in karpniki / fischbach

good-bye, fischbach castle

pałac dębowy (=oak palace), karpniky ~ villa of anna aichinger, fischbach.

author of the nice picture: Innalna. source: wikipedia creative commons here

catholic st. hedwig church + ruins of the evangelic church, fischbach

rainbow in lower silesia 🌈

ruins of castle bolczow (bolzenschloss, bolkoschloss, bolzenstein) from 1374

hiking in the falkenberge mountains

view to the cloudy karkonosze (riesengebirge) mountains

at the top of kreuzberg (krzyzna gora 654m)

swiss chalet (szwajcarka) in the falkenberge mountains (gory sokole)

falkenberg (sokolnik)

city of hirschberg (jelenia gora) => more pictures here

paulinum palace is named after my dorm in munich 😇 => more hirschberg pictures here

beautiful sunset in lower silesia / schlesien / slask

last chapter of this blog? polish for the advanced speakers 😇

if man would be better, it would be better

more pictures here.