zugspitze, top of germany

what a nice skiing at the zugspitze, the top of germany, today. just 1 day before the winter saison ends (1st of may), you know? ⛄🌞

we have had fantastic light + clouds conditions today, so the hills looked different every few minutes => enjoy few pictures. later below you will find also pictures from my visit here with my youngest daughter and her boyfriend in early february.

here is my face still quite fine. in the evening at home i was red like a soviet flag. now i

try to save what's still possible by aloe vera + kefir face masks. next tim SUN CREAM 🌞

this was my favorite view today 😄

now few views from early febraury (05.02.2023) with not much snow out there. just check the last picture from the cable car down to the frozen lake eibsee. do you see any significant white areas in the valley? my dears, it wasfebruary, the 5th .... even my beloved ski track brunntal at the zugspitze was closed as there were rocks all over the area. well, we have had to ride only in the area weisses tal / sonnenkar in the region 2,300 - 2,600m. it was a fantastic day anyway 😄

there was not much snow in february, you see?

view to the top from the parking place at frozen lake eibsee.

more pictures here.

last time so close to the gods up here i was before the corona lockdowns in 2018.

searching for a grave in eastern slovakia, SK

well, it was a sad reason for my visit in slovakia this early april .... my youngest brother + me went to einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom) to find a place for my mother's grave ... but yes, it is the traditional cycle of life, isnt it? young people come, old people  go ...

the cold + rainy + snowy weather and my sad mood somehow directed my focus on ugly / destroyed / industrial stuff / ruins / death / false values (like the nasty communist propaganda in my old 1st class schoolbook) and the like ... a strange different perspective, isn't it? anyway, it did not last forever 😇

on the road. we've just crossed the hill over the stoss spa to enter 'our' göllnitz river valley

schmöllnitz (smolnik) as seen from the chapel. 

small orthodox church built by ukrainian chernobyl nuclear catastrophy refugees

the old tobacco factory 'tabacka' from 1872 is empty today ~ schmöllnitz

the former guest house pauker between schmöllnitz and einsiedel

the evangelic church in einsiedel an der göllnitz

the forest cemetery (called totengarten by the locals) bellow the spitzberg mountain

the catholic church in einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom)

cout of arms of the zips region

beergarden in göllnitz

the yellow church is in schmöllnitz (smolnik) from the northern snowy side of the stoss mountain,

the white one in metzenseifen (medzev).

gypsy colony in jasov

gypsies in jasov

the krasna horka castle from the south side of the hill over stoss

zvolen (= altsohl in german), central slovakia

the altsohl castle in zvolen was build by the hungarian king 

lajos I. nagy (louis I. of hungary / ludwig der große) in the years 1370–1382

castle in bratislava (pressburg was the original german name) in western slovakia

two of us, my father and me 🍻

it's easter time, you know?

my almost 50 years old 1st class schoolbook 💾

my no. 1 poem about a violet (veilchen / fialka) i still remember today meets communist propaganda

communist propaganda ...

the karpatenblatt is the german minority's publication in slovakia

all of us, maybe xmas 2016? or 2016?

more sad pictures here.