jaro gruber ;-): 7/1/25

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 ...