wedding anniversary :o)

a small celebration with just two of us during the corona lockdown in germany at lake starnberger see.

marriage 25.02.1993 💕

with the best of all wives 25.02.2021

1994-1995?

hotel schloss berg at lake starnberger see was clodsed during corona lockdown. the old castle is near there (but not really spectacular)

village berg at lake starnberger see

our celebration place during the corona lockdown in assenhausen at eastern strand of at lake starnberger see, germany😄

a short swimming excercise in still ice cold lake

assenhausen at eastern strand of the lake starnberger see

bismarckturm in assenhausen was built 1896-1899 in honor of the

1st german chancellor otto von bismarck (1815-1898)

good-bye, lake starnberger see

more pictures here.

for more pictures of lake starnberger see:

• seeburg castle 2022 + possenhofen castle 2018 => lake starnbergersee
• feldafing 2020 => the lake's west bank
• wedding day 2021 at berg castle + assenhausen close to seeburg => the lake's east bank
• seeseiten + st. heinrich 2020 at the very south side

more bavarian lakes here.

lodz, PL, 2018 and 1993

we have been already many, many, many, many times to lodz visiting my wife's family... look what an album created google automatically here

the former poznanski's factory site is the beautiful shopping & leisure center manufaktura 'manufa' today

this time we have dared to jump into the city's historical museum in the poznanski palace. yes, it was a really nice experience. it was so crazy to learn that in 1820 had lodz only 767 inhabitants and thanks to rapid development of the textile industry (especially under russian administration) in 1914 almost half a million and before WWII already 670,00 ... unbelievable. there were poles, germans, jews and russian folks (+ few french and english industrialists too) living close to each other and in peace ...
that was probably also the time when in germany arised the folk song 'theo, we go to lodz' (theo, wir fahren nach lodsch)

lodz 💓

our last (longer) visit to lodz was at all hollows, so have have concentrated our attention on the cemeteries. enjoy especially the pictures from the combined catholic / protestant / orthodox cemetery close to the manufactura site here. this time i've visited the jewish cemetery in the northern part of the lodz. beside really old graves there are also many commemorative plaques for the victims of the litzmannstadt ghetto from WWII. so sad :-((

the jewish cemetery ~ izrael poznanski's mausoleum

 city history musuem in the poznanski palace:

 the rooms inside the poznanski palace 

what about going 26 years back? well, the best of all wives and myself have been at the sylvester party 1993 in the poznanski palace :o)

1993 💕

 good-bye, poznanski's palace

back to 2018. poznanski's manufactura

plac wolnosci, the main city square and begin of the piotrkowska street

piotrkowska street 

looking for piece of land in alexandrow, a village next to lodz

wtf?

enjoy more pictures here.

what about the mosaic of our whole journey?

• lodz
• poznan
• tuczno 
• dziwnow at the baltic sea 
• kamien pomorski  
• oranienbaum-wörlitz

btw, enjoy our former winter visit to lodz with some snow here

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hue ~ unesco heritage ~ central vietnam

next stop on our round trip was the former capital hue in central vietnam. its citadel (=emperor's palaces incl. the forbidden city similar to those in peking) was declared unesco world cultural heritage in 1993.

if you asked me, hue was the nicest of all places we have seen in vietnam. my girls liked more our next stop, hoi an. why? because of its shopping streets. more hue pictures :o)

anything else? coming soon or never ...