kitzbühel, tirol, AT

kitzbühel (kitzbichi) was many, many hundreds years a bavarian city + region. today belongs this famous ski resort to tirol, austria, you know?

well, for us was kitzbühl the last stop-over (it was the #5) after izola, slovenia + udine, italy + plöckenpass IT-AT border + lienz, austria at our way home from istria, croatia. the countries in central europe are quite small and so are the distancies between different regions. on the way back from premantura to munich we have decided to try the shorter but slower way (566 km in 7.5 hours) through HR-IT-AT-DE in two days with a night in udine, IT. the way via ljubljana, slovenia through HR-IT-SI-AT-DE is 626 km long, but takes almost 1 hour less to drive to munich (i.e. 6 h 48 min according to google maps right now) and it is also more expensive as there are more toll roads on the way. 🚙

kitzbühel, österreich, AT

the main street in the city center

the first hospital (= spital in austrian german 😂; in germany we say krankenhaus = sick people house) in the medieval city operated 1412 - 1966. it was open because of some public facilities (a canteen for city's cleaning / machinery / service employees? or some similar public service?) 

hotel goldener greif, kitzbühel

the town hall (rathaus)

kitzbühl, munich, landshut + ingolstadt = a former alliance of 4 bavarian cities

wilder kaiser massif, alps (alpen)

even after a nice vacation we're to come back home 😇

more pictures here.

vorderkaiserfeldenhütte 1388m, kufstein AT

what a nice hiking tour in austria with my eldest daughter & my son-in-law. we have been at the cottage vorderkaiserfeldenhütte 1388m, which we arrived after a steep ascent from kufstein (tirol, AT) in 3 hours. we have been lucky that the thunderstorm ☈🌁 came after we arrived at the cottage. but yes, we planned the tour that way and started early 😄

enjoy few pictures, especially:

• the sunset view to wilder kaiser massif as seen from the cottage in the evening
• the wonderful inversion with the clouds over the inn river
• my nice tour to the nearby naunspitze 1633m next morning

all in one

kufstein castle

the pendling hill

finally arrived at the vorderkaiserfeldenhütte 😃

3 of us?

vorderkaiserfeldenhütte 1388m

the naunspitze 1633m (and the vorderkaiserfeldenhütte) are part of the

zahmer kaiser massif in the kaisergebirge

what a nice inversion in the early morning with the clouds over the inn river 😄

the lower naunspitze + the higher petersköpfl above the cottage vorderkaiserfeldenhütte

wilder kaiser

more pictures here.