jaro gruber ;-): 2025

Saturday, August 2, 2025

paulinum ~ walking back in time

how crazy is that? three of us met some 30+ years after we left our student dorm paulinum again just to visit our old well known places 😀~ the LMU university, the surrounding streets, the nearby bars + restaurants which changed most over the time ... our student home still exists and functions as a refugee accommodation awaiting massive reconstruction today.

one of the back entries to the LMU university

= ludwig-maximilians-universität in munich

like a student again ...

audimax, auditorium maximum, the biggest lecture hall at the LMU

paulinum, our old students home, rambergstr. 6, close

to the LMU university witnessed better times before ⏰

3 of us 🍀😊🍀

the bavarian atzinger guesthouse close to the LMU university

could keep its student character over the years 🍻🍻🍻

highly NOT recommended aka do not visit the place where my munich pictures are stored. it is my still growing 'walking in munich album' with 1,000+ pictures. the sheer number of pictures + years covered would make you feel sick 😱

eof

Saturday, July 26, 2025

pressburg aka bratislava, SK

my next visit to pressburg (= bratislava, the capital of slovakia / slovensko / slowakei / SK) was quite a short one. the main reason was to visit my father, which is getting older and thx goodness he is still robust, optimistic and fine 😀

bratislava castle, SK

bratislava, slovakia, SK

not the best weather out there, is it? ☁

... improving 😀

seabuckthorn (= sanddorn = rakytnik) is sour, very rich

on vitamin C and a nice tree in a garden as well 😉

slavin, monument for the fallen soviet soldiers in WW II

liberated from the nazis by the soviet army ...

the dukla pass in the eastern SK ~ 06.10.1944

my home town kosice / kassa / kaschau ~ 20.01.1945

bratislava 04.04.1945 (april) ... berlin 08.05.1945 (may)

vienna (wien) - marx - edberg, austria, AT

vienna

on the road in austria, AT

what a nice colors in austria 😉

on the road in austria, AT - lake mondsee

the DE-AT border in (hitler's) braunau, austria, AT

on the road in bavaria, germany, DE

as i've not made many pictures this time, so there is no new album => i've just reused my last SK album from march-2025 😇

Thursday, July 24, 2025

braunau am inn, austria, AT

after the highway from the german side was drawn from munich almost to the austrian border at the inn river at braunau few years ago, i usually use this shortest way to pressburg, slovakia even if there is a huge part from the austrian side without a highway. and yes, especially the border control at braunau is faster than the border control when coming back from SK + AT to DE via salzburg

yesterday i just wanted to look up few old pictures abt braunau, but i couldnt find that pictures i was thinking of ... well, i've had to go back in time and found a trace about our short trip for dinner in braunau at our way back from all hollows in slovakia in november 2022. .,,, so i've uploaded the braunau pictures from november, 2nd 2022 today😄

enjoy few views of (hitler's birth city) braunau am inn in austria (AT) below. well, i remember a yellow picture from his birth house with a huge stone from the concentration camp mauthausen in front of it my parents made some 30 years ago. i'm not going to search for it in my albums with paper photographs before the digital era begun ... as far as i know his birth house was later destroyed and the rock removed in order not to support any kind of nazi tourism. if interested, you'll find such pictures on the internet if you asked me ...