komotau, brüx, erzgebirge ~ chomutov, most, krusne hory ~ CZ

what a nice weekend in erzgebirge (ore mountains, krusne hory) in the czech republic: brüx (most), komotau (chomutov) ... i've visited good friends with whom i lived close together as a refugee 30 years ago in munich. well, they have moved to czech republic last year 😄

castle landeswarte (zamek hnevin) above the city of brüx (most)

i was happy to visit this interesting formerly german settled region in the erzgebirge mountains and to have local guides all over the area, which is unfortunately essentially affected by open pit brown coal mining. please enjoy few pictures and insights in the following blog post ....

in the nearby thermal baths area of karlsbad and marienbad is the nature still fine ... not so in the brown coal open pit mining area of  brüx (most) & komotau (chomutov)

a scene from the moon or just dust over the open pit coal mines?

 

view from my window in hohenofen (vysoka pec), CZ

erzgebirge (ore mountains, krusne hory)

castle eisenberg (zamek jezeri) is currently renovated, bur looks still like a ruin, doesn't it?

lunch in brüx (most) in a 'good soldier svejk (schweik)' restaurant,

called after the satirical anti-military roman by jaroslav hasek

black&white view at castle landeswarte (zamek hnevin) above the city of brüx (most)

observatory at the castle landeswarte (hnevin)

 

remaining of old brüx (most): the church that was moved 800m and rescued

ten or eleven years ago, after approximately 30 years of open pit mining, all the coal below old city of brüx (most) was mined. today there is an artificial lake and the nature seems to take the destroyed industrial site back under its control. if we only let everywhere the nature restore our sins 😇. on the left side are the chimneys of leutensdorf (litvinov), the chemical industry center

short visit to marienberg, erzgebirge (ore mountains), saxony, DE. marienberg is also a former mining area, but unlike komotau & brüx all the mining (of metals) in marienberg took place underground

back to komotau: castle rothenhaus (cerveny hradek) in borough görkau (jirkov) is a hotel today

 all of us

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city center of komotau (chomutov):

 coat of arms

 main old town square in komotau

 
 

train station komotau (chomutov)

good-bye, my loved center of komotau

my dears, there is at least one other really interesting thing in komotau. have you ever heard about an alum lake (alaunsee ~ kamencove jezero)? well, they have flooded the 18th century alum mine and there is a lake today => a lake where no plants and no animals live, but good for swimming 🏊

 
 

more pictures here.

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#jarosells oil => pays taxes => #jarobuys vale + bhp billiton + rio tinto

what's the advantage of long blog titles? there is not much to add later on :-)

folks, please don't think the oil price is gonna collapse ... i would rather hold my trade till the end of january, but i couldn't ... well, my call option (call warrant) expired yesterday, so the goldman sachs guys sold it close to the daily low @ 3.50 €uros i think (brent oil was $113 per barrel yesterday) ... it is nice to be an emitter & market maker at one time, isn't it?

anyway, my trade from late march 2009 on brent oil and strike price $90 is 2.6 times the initial amount, so i've managed to make 160% profit on that thinny position ... unfortunately, the all-time-high for that paper was 4.82 €uros (probably when the oil price was $125 in april), so there could be even more money made, but i've somehow waited for a temporary (news driven) price spike which didn't come in the last 2 years  ... my dear, don't worry, i've one more open oil option, my bigger and less aggressive paper oil which runs one more year (till 11/12/2012) and has a strike price of only $70 (currently +117%) ...

why did i buy all these 3 major commodity producers and not any pennystocks this time? well, i just thought my always underfunded account will enjoy their fat dividends ;-)

• vale (Companhia Vale do Rio Doce) ~ brasilian iron ore producer
• bhp billiton ~ british/australian iron ore, coal, oil, base metals, potash etc producer
• rio tinto ~ british/australian aluminium, copper, iron ore etc producer

as u can easily see, i've stolen (=source) that picture from my canadian oil explorer donnybrook