south tirol, summer 2023

finally, i've got time to present few pictures + insights from august 2023 😇

why so late? i don't have that much time for blogging in summers, you know? why at all? well, especially my two hiking tours from sellajoch (passo sella) 2244m around the langkofel 3181m & plattkofel 2964m mountains and the 2nd one, directly up the hill from lake pragser see, were among my best tours ever 🌞. after that, i was so tired, that on the 3rd day i've decided to 'climb up' the plose massif by cable car up to 2055m and walked just 1-1.5h without any elevation gain to the next cottage ochsenalm (2088m). after some lunch & buttermilk i just went back down to brixen by that same cable car. btw, the highest peak in the plose massif is called gabler 2576m.

i was already at the langkofel in 2022. this time i managed to walk all the way around it and next time up probably to the top? of course, at least the neighboring plattkofel (platt = flat) mountain at 2964m would be possible to reach with my skills, condition & my attitude ... heaven & hell, 2964m? thats the same height as the top of germany = zugspitze. but for the the summit tour to plattkofel / langkofel i would need to stay somewhere close there for the night. why? well, from our traditional 'base camp' neustift monastery is the journey there and back too much for a 1 day tour, unless i would wake up at 4 or 5 o'clock 🕟

enjoy pictures from hypnosis seminar in kloster neustift (neustift abbey), hiking tours to pragser wildsee (lago di braies) + langkofel peak in dolomiti (dolomiten, dolomites) + plose + swimming in völser weiher + ...

hiking path & mountains above the lake pragser wildsee

lake pragser wildsee

kloster neustift ~ neustift abbey ~ abbazia novacella

basilica

education center

kloster neustift ~ neustift abbey ~ abbazia novacella

the bible hall ~ hypnosis seminar by the best of all wives 💖

lake völser weiher below the schlern massif

langkofelgruppe (saslonch, sassolungo) as seen from sellajoch (passo sella),

cianacei / canazei, IT

the sella massif. what about my skiing adventure sellaronda in winter?

hiking path @ langkofel with some snow left from the last winter

langkofel - fünffingerspitze

mountain cottage plattkofelhütte, 2300m

langkofelgruppe (saslonch, sassolungo) in winter as seen from the seiser alm.

This Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder ~ wiki commons license here

plose cable car, 2050m

plose, mountain cottage ochsenalm (2088m)

a faun? an angel? a devil? arts? WHO KNOWS?

engelsburg (angels' castle) + arts exhibition in neustift

lets listen to dante alighieri, will we?

brückenwirt, our favorite restaurant & beer garden in neustift (novacella) & vahrn (varna)

good-bye, kloster neustift, good-bye south tirol

even more pictures here.

our previous visit to south tyrol may 2023 here.

one of our our previous visits to neustift abbey in 2020 here.

eof

4 days in ashram ~ taraska, PL

finally, i've got time to present my pictures + insights from august 2023 😇

what a nice time in central poland. especially our 4 days in the art of living's ashram in taraska, in a forest close to the pilica river near piotrkow trybunalski (19 km) and lodz (61 km). we enjyoed not only the vegan food, swimming in the pilica river und clear air, but also the agenda at the yearly meeting of the spiritual education club 'art of good life' from lodz. there have been interesting presentations, workshops, some health supporting devices, my crazy wife hypnotised people at tea table in the evening & next day in the conference hall almost the whole audience at once😀, a yoga class each morning, a lot of time to speak to like-minded people + much more...

pilica river near taraska

the spiritual leader of this ashram is Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and his art of living foundation, so let's post at least 1 qoute first:

“difficulties do come in life, but to overcome difficulties, one needs to be strong, and strength comes only through knowledge and wisdom.”

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

summertime in lodz, PL

our stops in poland this time?

• konradow (konradswalde, lower silesia #1)
• zloty stok (reichenstein in schlesien), where we've visited a gold mine in 2014
• kamieniec ząbkowicki (lower silesia #2)
• lodz - baluty (central poland): there will be few pictures made by my wife in april as well. she focus at different issues & views than me, so it makes this album more interesting, if you asked me 😁
• aleksandrow lodzki - ruda bugaj
• trebaczew
• brzeziny
• sri gurudev's artofliving ashram in taraska (here in this blog post 😇)
• pilica river at nowe miasto nad pilica with the longest wooden bridge in PL + at taraska close to the artificial lake zaliw sulejowski
• spa jastrzebie-zdroj aka Jastrzębie-Zdrój (Bad Königsdorff) (lower silesia #3) at the czech border on our way to olmütz (olomoc)

enjoy a lot of pictures:

lodz

konradow

zloty stok

kamieniec zabkowicki

warsaw airport

lodz

lodz ZOO

aleksandrow lodzki

farmers in trebaczew

pilica river at nowe miasto nad pilica with the longest wooden bridge in PL

gluchow

jezow

brzeziny

lodz, palac poznanskich

lodz, manufaktura

lodz

TARASKA 💖

my wife after her workshop with romek, the main contributor to the whole 4-days-event

our yoga teacher, martyna.

almost all of us ...

fire clouds + swimming in the pilica river in taraska

two of us

arts? spa jastrzebie-zdroj aka Jastrzębie-Zdrój (Bad Königsdorff)

many more pictures here.