zagreb, HR

what is on the half way between bratislava, SK and southern dalmatia, HR? yes, you are right, it is zagreb, the capital of croatia, CRO. well, after the funeral of my mother we were happy to move forward, see s.th. new and leave most of the sad thoughts for some time behind us ....

our hotel dubrovnik was in the very city center in the lower old town, so it was a great starting point for the sightseeing. any insider hint? if planning to sleep there, book your stay directly at the hotel website. why? you can park for free then and otherwise you have to pay a quite high parking fee of about (10-)15-20 euro per night, you know?

zagreb (ZG) looks often somehow broken and destroyed, but really nice, if you asked me. enjoy few pictures 😄

the night life street with restaurants, bars, music. 'our' restaurant 'pivnica mali medo' aka 'cellar small bear' with croatian craft beer and live music from the 1st floor through an open window 😄

the old name of zagreb was AGRAM. author: Janez Vajkard Valvasor, 1689. source wikipedia

on the road: the drava river (drau) short after entering croatia from hungary

zagreb, old city center in the lower town

cathedral in kaptol in upper town (gornji grad)

many beautiful facades out there

this smelly passage is the shortcut from the parking place to our hotel dubrovnik

hotel dubrovnik in zagreb (ZG), hrvatska

there was a loooong tunnel between the lower and upper city center and a cable car, too

view down from the upper town

two of us inside an orthodox church in the upper town

the central church in the upper town

many. many prayers out there

old meets new in zagreb

the market in the downtown city center

leaving zagreb --> my worst ever rain while driving the car ⛈☁🚙 ... 

but the stupid man-made traffic jam at the highway toll station in direction ljubljana (slovenia) + the next jam only few minutes later at the croatian-slovenian border were worse than the rain 😇

do YOU see the road? 😇🚗🍀

more pictures here.

giesing - faith cure in unknown part of munich

what an interesting faith cure mass and what a nice singing in giesing today. well, the monks and nuns from the temple order (templerorden) sung sooo nice and prayed for the needy folks out of the small audience (15 people?) in their beautiful monastery in the riverside part of munich - giesing. i was so surprised about the location, about the event, about the peaceful mood all over the place ... and there was coffee & cake after the mass too, like in an another world ... well, the 13 monks and 13 nuns of the temple order are probably really different from every day people and their website is also different than i would expect. the most important issue at their website? to save the nature (god's creation) ... so clever, so nice :-)

birkenleiten 35 is the address of this beautiful monastery at the auer mühlbach creek built in 1880 originally as a villa by the jeweler karl winterhalter and bought by the order in 1968.

1880, the unknown part of giesing ... temple order (templerorden / templer) ... what about TSV 1860? that's soccer, of course :-)

the orthodox church

the monastery

good-bye, temple order / templerorden, see ya in october again :-)

temple order (source website)

kraemersche kunstmühle, 1863

giesing

that's how the most people in munich imagine giesing: blocks, blocks, blocks ...

the nearby district harlaching

more pictures here
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