hallstatt (unesco heritage)

well, i was quite disappointed after visiting hallstatt, the unesco cultural heritage and city which was copied and re-built by one chinese mining company as an 1 : 1 replica somewhere in china. even when we have had a bad weather it still was interesting to see the old houses + 2 or 3 churches squashed between the lake hallstätter see and the rocks of the dachstein massif, but i've expected something more, to be honest from this heritage (weltkulturerbe) in the salzkammergut region of austria

enjoy few pictures anyway

 2nd church

 

 view from the 2nd church down to the lake and the 1st church ...

 skulls and bones

 

good-bye dachstein

just in case you want to read about the history of hallstatt: salt (world's first known salt mine is located just above the city), bronze, other metals, ... and probably also fishing + hunting + forestry and today tourism, of course :-)

more pictures in my google album

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zwölferhorn, 1521m (st. gilgen, wolfgangsee, austria)

we are still at lake wolfgngsee in st. gilgen, you know? today we have had great great time and beautiful weather at zwoelferhorn (zwölferhorn), the 1521 meter high hill above st. gilgen ...

crazy bavarian tourists in the austrian hills aka going down hill the bavarian style ~ so easy :o)

panorama to the south ...

... the dachstein massif (up to 2995 m)

 

 zwölferhorn, 1521m

 lake wolfgangsee

 two of us

 a very small rock made big by zooming :-)

 schafberg, 1782 m

cable car zwölferhornbahn to the hill

franzl's hütte, here we had our coffee break

good-bye, dachstein

more pictures here

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2013 ~ my life as seen by google ;o)

omg, #google highlighted few issues from my life in #2013. i think, it is nice + crazy :-)

what is your opinion? btw, my 2013 motto was 'mehr leben' = to live more ... and i still have no motto for 2014++ ... anyway, thx, dear google ;)

jaro gruber 2013 ~ link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkLIs54S3Y4

~~~
either in germany or in a RestOfWorld (country):
neuaubing, munich, christlum (austria), hanoi + hue + hoi an (vietnam), munich, pappenheim, munich, lucerne + zurich + schaffhausen (switzerland), munich, ehrwalder alm (austria), herzogstand + walchensee, petra (jordan), bethlehem (israel), neuschwanstein, new york (usa), luxemburg (luxemburg), herzogstand + kochelsee, munich, tegernseer hütte = 2013
~~~

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silvester at lake wolfgangsee (austria)

well, our children are big enough and prefer to spend sylvester with their friend, so the best of all wives + me decided to spend few days at the beautiful lake wolfgangsee in the salzkammergut region of austria. we haven't been here before and just knew the former german chancellor helmut kohl used to spend here his summer holidays every year, so let's give the area a try :-)

even if i was booking very late, we've got a small nice hotel in st. gilgen (sankt gilgen). it looks both from outside and from inside like a gingerbread house, so we feel like hansel and gretel :-)

lake wolfgangsee from the west side

our gingerbread house

hansel

lake wolfgangsee

lake wolfgangsee, the schafberg mountain (1782 m) behind

as seen from zwölferhorn 1521m

schafberg 1782 m (sheep hill). looks like UFO landing strip, 

if you asked me  ... with many many sheople?

st. gilgen

hansel and gretel. what a decoration at the christmas markets in austria :-)

just bought my first traditional costume for the oktoberfest. the bavarians will not recognize that it is tyrolean, will they? lol

more pictures in my g+ album, i will sort / comment / delete few of them later and maybe change few if i should be able to see more sun tomorrow ...

my performance in the financial markets in 2013

what about my performance in the financial markets in 2013? let's forget (=burn) 2013 and let's hope for (=create) a better 2014, my dears ...

source: event concerning jörg bergstedt's workshop about activism against monsanto, GMO & Co.

you probably remember that already 2012 was a disaster, but 2013 was a nightmare, you know? it looks like my mostly gold + silver + other commodities stocks in my investmen account declined by 212,000 euros in 2013 and in my trading account i've lost about 3,300 euros. omg, omg, omg :-((
i will collect the proper data next week when i'll get the yearly reports from my brokers. i think it will be worse than that because i've put also a lot of new money into my investment account this year which isn't considered in plain comparison of the year-end-values 2012 vs. 2013 ... and yes, let's hope 2013 has thought me something valuable ... 

well, all the losses happened (as in 2012) mainly because the real world out there did not fit to my believes about the world, economy, markets and i was not able to trade what i have seen instead of what i have believed :-(

just my trading account issues were a little bit different this year. because of too much work in my office job i simply had no time to think about the markets or to follow them, so i just bought some commodity CFDs (mostly oil) when i had a free second and immediately placed a stop-loss-order. the next time i had some time i visited my trading platform again and looked up what happened to my position(s). sometimes i had luck and my item was up, so i could move my stop-loss-order to protect the gain. unfortunately, mostly was my position down and the trade was cancelled as the stop-loss-level was hit. but there was not much trading in 2013 and the amounts risked were not high. if you asked me, it was just to satisfy my gambler's mood :-)

what about my outlook for 2014? again not much different than a year ago, i simply can't imagine the system out of governments, central banks, rating agencies and the like can manipulate the money supply, interest rates, inflation rates, value of currencies and markets (especially forex + bonds which are manipulated directly, the others like equities + gold + ... rather indirectly) any longer ... but you know what, let the famous trend forecaster gerald celente tell you his 2014 predictions:

good-bye 2013

source: again the sad 2012 performance overview

dilemma: i have no motto for 2014 yet. should i use the old one further (mehr leben 2013 = to live more in 2013) or look for a new one? any ideas out there? any comments on my investment / trading strategies?

society model: open access + open source

friend, i still think about the small hobby village i've seen at our walk around the lakes in langwied yesterday. for more than 20 years it is this always open to all, there is some food, shelter, wood to make a bonfire, a library inside one of the always open tents? yes. if you asked me, it is a working society model, you know? open access + open source, it means everything belongs to all, also all of us care about it and share it wisely. something like linux, mozilla firefox, wikipedia ... it works, you know?

 
anarchists' tipiplatz / tipi-platz / tipi :-)

 

library

 

exchange of ideas

here is the official link to the open access + open source indio village tipi-platz in the western munich (langwied) and here are few more of my pictures taken yesterday

few more good societiy models or few nice examples?

• think global, act local
• learn from others (the right way)
• free of domination (in german language: jörg bergstedt: freie menschen in freien vereinbarungen)
• resource based economy by jacque fresco
• save the world ~ link library
• etc

more comes soon or never :)

our 3 langwieder lakes ~ langwieder see, lusssee, birkensee

what a nice walk with the best of all wives today in the western part of munich (langwied + obermenzing close to münchen-pasing-aubing) and out of the city .... it was like a summer walk, but we have end of december in munich now ... what did we do to our climate, my dears? it was probably not so good idea to burn all that oil, gas, coal and the half of our forests in the last 100 years, was it? btw, here is my climate 2013 report (so sad) reprinted from truthout few days ago

langwieder see, summer 2019

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performing a handstand in (not frozen) lake langwieder see

a small indio tipi village with native inhabitants? nope. just big city cowboys 😄

walking inside ...

is this an always open library inside one of the always open tents? yes. community model? open access + open source, it means everything belongs to all and we care about it and share it wisely. something like linux, mozilla firefox, wikipedia ... it works, you know?

lake lusssee

lake birkensee

lake birkensee

back to lake langwieder see and to our car ...

lunch in bavarian pub 'alter wirt' in obermenzing, the 2nd oldest in munich as far as i know, since 1417

1417

more pictures from the 3 lakes + 1 indio village here in my google album => enjoy. btw, if you are interested in few summer pictures from langwieder see / lusssee / lußsee, here we go  :)