sachsenklemme, südtirol, IT

as every august in the last few years, my wife taught a seminar for teachers in the neustift abbey in south tirol. this time i was quite sick after my journey to peru, so i just drove her there on sunday and came back after 1 week for only 2 more days ... anyway, i could visit some well known and beloved places like the lake völser weiher below the schlern mountain, the beergarden + restaurant brückenwirt in neustift, the silence area at the small hill in natz .... and yes, i#ve had a lot time out there. i've even got a sunburn as i've waited 3 or 4 hours for my wife meanwhile in shadow and in sun listening to a martin armstrong interview about geopolitics + financial markets in natz ...

before our 3h drive home we have stopped for lunch at the hotel & restaurant sachsenklemme in their  new and modern AH brewery (andreas hofer brewery) in the village franzenfeste located directly at the highway +  the eisack river (isarco), so lets show ya few pictures from there, okay? 😉

hotel & restaurant sachsenklemme in franzenfeste (fortezza), IT

btw, why sachsenklemme (saxons wedge)? well, for some strange reason, the saxons fought against the tiroleans thousand miles from home and yes, the tiroleans locked the saxons in the slim valley at the eisack river and throve huge stones from the hill on them. not nice at all, is it?

kloster neustift ~ neustift abbey, south tirol, IT

the beautiful library in the monastery

basilica

bible hall ~ an intuition seminar by the best of all wives 😃

castle engelsburg, neustift abbey

kloster neustift ~ neustift abbey, south tirol, IT

lake völser weiher below the schlern mountain

there is some silence  / rest area at the end of village natz

here i've got that sunburn, my dears 🌞

we were visiting friends in natz

denken ist wie googeln, nur krasser 😂

hotel & restaurant sachsenklemme in franzenfeste (fortezza), IT

on the road home somewhere in tirol, austria, AT

very few more pictures here

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.