bayrischer wald, BY

bavaria is beautiful, you know? bayrischer wald, BY, böhmerwald, arber, großer arber, the still frozen glacier lake arbersee bellow the highest mountain of the böhmerwald massiv - großer arber 1455m (velky javor aka big maple tree aka großer ahorn is its czech name), kollnburg (there is a castle hotel with a nice restaurant we have been in twice), mühlbach, today's hipster + big city cowboys + yoga mood glamping aka camping schnitzmühle, schwarzer regen river, castle ruin altnussberg (burgruine altnussberg)

... more coming soon ... 

the historical mini city of kollnburg with its castle on the hill

the partly frozen glacier lake arbersee. more bavarian lakes here

more pictures here

sumava, böhmerwald, CZ

sumava, eisenstein, spitzberg - böhmerwald, CZ, glacier lakes cerne jezero (black lake, the biggest natural lake in czech republic), certovo jezero (devils lake), ski resort hotel karl in the village of spicak (spitzberg bei zelezna ruda aka eisenstein)

... coming soon  ....

certovo jezero = devils lake, sumava, CZ

more pictures here

lake rachelsee + strange beings in lower bavaria

we are quite often in lower bavaria, you know? in june, i hiked to the top of the grosser rachel mountain (1,453m above sea level) in the NP bavarian forest (aka bayerischer wald, böhmerwald, sumava). unfortunately, i could not see the lake rachelsee. why not? well, the lake was from the opposite site of the mountain as my parked car and i did not have had time (and neither the power) for and additional walk for 1 hour to the lake and next hour back .... this time i knew better from which site to access the gr. rachel area 😃

in the uckermark, they have ostriches + kangaroos, but in the bavarian forests there are strange beings too, my dears! deer, ferrets, galloways and other cows, koi carps, humans, unicorns, ducks ... much nicer and much more interesting than a zoo, wouldn't you say?

all in one ~ lake rachelsee + grosser rachel

enjoy few pictures:

moo, ecological apples consuming lawnmowers in voglöd 😄

deer

koi carps

hello ms. ferret 😉

moo again, ms. galloway

think global, act local. we have visited the nearby garnecker galloways ranch in reut (+ shop + beer garden) with friends and learned a lot about the upsides and downsides of small local alpine animal farming by talking to the owner.

humans + unicorns   &&   humans + cows

good-bye, galloways ranch

the ferienhof gruber in voglöd have probabaly seen better times before ....

lake waldsee, julbach

i know, you are waiting for lake rachelsee pictures, aren't you?

NP bavarian forest (bayerischer wald / böhmerwald, niederbayern)

medieval gold mining in the bavarian hills

grosser rachel mountain (1,453m above sea level) 

lake rachelsee

rachel chapel ~ rachelkappele ~ source of the picture is wikipedia (author Horacio36) and can be used by creative commons copyright

bavarian forest is a rainy place, you know?

a good address for regional lunch/dinner close to the inn river is the gasthof loher in hartkirchen

more pictures here.

more bavarian lakes here

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trijunction DE / AT / CZ

we are quite often in the trijunction DE / AT / CZ, you know? we usually sleep in the hotel alte innbrücke (old river inn bridge) in neuhaus am inn because it is close to our final destination, cheap and they have a very good wlan connection so that i can work mobile while my wife is busy with other stuff. even if the breakfast could be much better, i feel there meanwhile so familiar that this time i even went for breakfast in my pyjama, only completed by a sweater 😄

DE / AT / CZ = germany / austria / czech republic

of course, it is for us always more and more difficult to discover new things in the area .... this time we were lucky and could visit the vornbach castle which was the former vornbach abbey till 1803, the year where bavaria confiscated clerical property. how did we find it? easy, last time i could recognize a nice old building at the flyer of the inn river cruises, so my plan was ready to become reality today.

view from our hotel room's balcony (DE) to schärding (AT)

 mobile work paradox => the car stands still and i work on my laptop in the hotel room 😄. there are not many mobile workers out there, are they?

church of the former vornbach abbey (kloster vornbach)

 vornbach castle

fire department, vornbach (DE)

 restaurant gasthof resch, vornbach

inn river used to be an important transport vein for many hundred years, today it is not. they'e have built 6 - 8 power plants in its last section before it enters the danube river in nearby passau.

 lunch in schärding, austria (AT)

bums'n? bumsn? bumsen?

schärding (AT)

skiing in the bohemian forest: schwarzenberg (AT) + reischlberg (AT) + klaffer am hochficht (AT):

ski area hochficht (AT)

reischlberg + hochficht, 1338 m

 the czech border

 zwieselberg (AT)

me (DE / CZ / SK / AT / universe 😍)

hiking tour at the moldau river (vltava) in bohemian forest (sumava) in horni vltavice (CZ):

 tepla vltava ~ warm vltava river

 horni vltavice (CZ)

a fast dinner on the way home in vilshofen (DE). we liked the city a lot and decided to visit it at some other occasion (=> enjoy more pictures & insights about vilshofen from may 2020 here)

more pictures here.