funeral in poland + schloß leopoldshain aka lagow castle

funerals are sad. especially funerals of young people ... 46 .... without any previous signals for some illness ... soooo heartbreaking saaaad .... anyway, it was important to say good-bye, dear friend 🙏 and in some way even nice to meet all our polish family at this mourning ceremony ... and it was also really valuable to spend some time with our closest family in ruda bugaj in the outskirts of lodz & alexandrow lodzki in central poland.

we had to come to lodz in 1 day and we did. it is 950 km one way from munich, thus not easy at all. despite heavy rain and bad sight during the journey we were lucky to arrive after 11 hours short after 9 pm in lodz. that is perfect as we could extensively talk to my mother-in-law the very 1st day. at least at the way back we could sleep 1 night somewhere in the middle of our way. it was a nice castle hotel from 1581 called palac lagow aka lagow castle aka schloss leopoldshain just 5 km away from the polish-german-border at zgorzelec aka görlitz ....

palac lagow aka lagow castle aka schloss leopoldshain, 1581

enjoy few pictures 😄

on the road

a short break for lunch in saxony

RIP dear friend

what a beautiful cemetery in lodz ... like a park, isnt it?

the chapel of the scheibler family in the evangelic part of the central 

city cemetery (2017). there are catholic + ortodox sections, too.

just the jewish cemetery (2018) is outside the old city's center.

26 years 😥

the most old graves in the evangelic section of the cemetery are german

ruda bugaj

walking in the nature ...

flowers are the smile of the world, arent they? ... 

and maybe they even reduce the pain on funerals a little bit

czarny staw, a restaurant + event location in adamow nowy,

some 5 km behind alexandrow lodzki

schloß leopoldshain aka lagow castle close to görlitz aka zgorzelec

holba. what a tasty czech beer made from rice!

back home 🚗🕖🍀

more pictures here.

ravensburg + spa bad waldsee

ravensburg in baden-württemberg (germany) is a beautiful city of many many towers and many timber framed houses just 15-20 km away from lake bodensee. we have visited it on our way back home to munich. why also bad waldsee? well, in ravensburg it was too early for a lunch, so we've looked for the next hot spot down the road and found this nice spa. we bloggers generally love travelling, because we can find a lot of stuff to blog about, you see? 😄

ravensburg

wilder mann, the wild man restaurant / pub

some pancake company

arts? a road to hell? who knows?

street arts 😄

this old city gate of ravensburg in front of me ...

... i've just left the gate behind me

part of the old city walls in ravensburg from outside

good-bye, ravensburg

hello in the spa bad waldsee, my dears 😄

what a place! what a waitress! weinstube zum hasen. since 1663

back to the city center in bad waldsee

good-bye, bad waldsee. good-bye, baden-württemberg

even more pictures here.