south tirol ~ peitlerkofel 2875m + neustift abbey, IT

as every august for 6 or 7 years, my wife provides a seminar for teachers in neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella) in south tirol (südtirol), italy, IT. my highlight this year was the hiking tour around the peitlerkofel mountain (2875m) in the dolomiti area of the italian alps ... thus neustift was the last stage at our central europe journey this august. you still remember the previous stops?

• poland (schloss braunau / castle brunow)
• czech republic (schloss plumau / castle plumlov)
• austria (ebensee)
• germany (höglwörther kloster + see)

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

early morning at peitlerkofel 2875m

after 5 houtrs we've reached the end of our walk around the peitlerkofel

neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella)

the engelsburg (angels' castle) at the neustift monastery

more pictures here.

traunsee, ebensee, langbathsee, wolfgangsee - AT

traunsee + ebensee, langbathsee, wolfgangsee ~ oberösterreich (= upper austria), AT. 

btw, which of these four 'lakes' (see) is not a lake? ... got it? well, ebensee is just a name of the village at the southernmost point of lake traunsee and means here is everything flat ('eben') 😆

btw, the lake traunsee build by the traun river is the deepest lake (completely located) in austria with 191m. just the lake bodensee between austria & switzerland & germany is with its 251m even deeper.

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

lake langbathsee

village ebensee

view in the direction to feuerkogel from our plain & fine 

guesthouse 'gasthof roitner' in ebensee

the village / small city of ebensee

picture of castle ort on an island in the lake traunsee in our hotel

picture from google maps (or wiki?) by florian pollak

lake traunsee as seen from ebensee

lake wolfgangsee, view to the north

lake wolfgangsee, view to the south

(very) few more pictures here.

castle plumlov, CZ

what a nice stop over between poland and austria in plumlov (plumenau, plumau, blumenau) a historical hotel villa at an artificial lake plumlov in moravia (morava, mähren), czech republic, CZ ... we've met a friend of mine petr who lives in nearby mohelnice (müglitz) and he prepared such a romantic dinner at the lake side terrace for all 3 of us in our almost empty hotel (the weather was not good enough for swimming). 

the next day we have had lunch in the beautiful city of mikulov (nikolsburg) close before the austrian border. we couldnt get any reasonable parking place in the city center even when we circled twice around it and there was so much beauty to see that we've decided just to eat a fast lunch in a street leading to the historical center and to visit this city + wineyards region for a longer period of time some other day 😇

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later, much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

castle plumlov above the fishpond

sandokan, the pirate of the malayan seas = TV series in the socialist 

era czechoslovakia we as kids couldnt wait to see the next chapter 😃

pirates at the fishpond 😄

castle plumlov

castle plumlov

zamek plumlov

the village of plumlov

still plumlov or is it already prostejov? who knows?

our hotel plumlov directly at the lake / dam

our friend petr

three of us / 3 of us

romantic dinner even if there was really cold outside

two of us

hotel plumlov

hotel plumlov at the reservoir dam

city of mikulov (nikolsburg), CZ, close before the austrian border

good-bye mikulov, good-bye czech republic

(very few) more pictures here.