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 ... btw, 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)
• italy (neustift abbey)

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... probably in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay? .... i love hills + hiking in the hills, so possibly there will be too many mountain pictures below. you dont mind, do you? 😇🌋🌞🌲

early morning at peitlerkofel (sass de putia) 2875m

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

two of us

do not ask me today how was this cottage 'behind the hill' called

starting and ending point is the würzjoch pass (passo delle erbe) at 1982m

parking at würzjoch right below the ütia de börz cottage at 2006m

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neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella)

the engelsburg (angels' castle) at the neustift monastery

two of us

our room in the monastery and my mobile office for 2 days

few pictures were taken by my wife. can you tell the difference? 😂

brückenwirt = our favorite restaurant in neustift, südtirol

few 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.