trencin + spa trencianske teplice, SK

western slovakia: city of trencin + spa trencianske teplice were our destinations for a family celebration this time. well there was an 100 years birthday party of my twin cousins, so we enjoyed the possibility to hike in the nearby mountains, to see all the family at one place and to visit my ailing mother in bratislava on the way back home.

hiking to omsenska baba, a mountain 669m above sea ground

spa trencianske teplice

 hamam from 1888

birthday party

trencin is most famous for its castle, its roman inscription from 179 A.D: mentioned the place as laugaricio. you still remember our lauriacum experience in austria yesterday, don't you? anyway, laugaricio greets lauriacum and yes, they will keep the northern border of former roman empire safe, didn't they? not for too long as empires cannot last forever. the american empire will also break apart, if you asked me :-)

 trencin castle

R.I.P ~ slovaks against corruption

 synagogue in trencin

more pictures here.

my last visit to slovakia in february here.

enns = the eldest town in austria

at our way to slovakia we have visited the small city of enns, the probably eldest city in austria.

we just wanted to make break for dinner somewhere away from the highway, so we decided to explore something new for us today. as we already knew the advertisement beside the highway about enns' 60m high tower and about the long history of the city for quite some time, we were curious how does the eldest austrian city look like. well, it was not much different then many others small medieval cities in austria or bavaria. there were few historic elements and we have learned that enns got its town privileges in 1212. but its old age comes from a different era - from a former roman military camp called lauriacum and a city which got its city right in 212.

the 60m high city tower (stadtturm)

by accident was also our next destination trencin in slovakia a place with roman history, as there is a roman inscription from 179 AD on the rock below the trencin castle mentioned that place as laugaricio. well, lauriacum greets laugaricio, doesn't it? anyway, the rivers danube, enns and vah in trencin were probably parts of or close to the borders of the roman empire and places where the original celtic and germanic population fought against the romans ...

 zeit fürs leben? = time for life? fine, why not? :-)

lauriacum enns

 let's climb up all these (approx. 155) steps

more pictures here.

my last visit to slovakia in february here.

zugspitze

what a nice skiing on the top of germany 😄

even if i like the garmisch classic ski area more, the zugspitze 2962 m (or 2963m ?) is the save place when you will avoid rain few hundred meters deeper in garmisch-partenkirchen (GaPa)...

the were TWO lessons learned yesterday:

1. how fast can the weather change in the mountains
2. how stupid i was to go whole day skiing when not 100% healthy. i went skiing with sore throat. i came back with fever, coughing, sniffles and spent whole next day sick in bed :-(

sonnenkar = sun cirque = sonnekessel :-)

and this was our visit here in january:

chemtrails over zugspitze?

more pictures here

pictures from our last years visit here
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slovaks against corruption

enough is enough - slovaks against corruption, finally :-). 

well, after the murder of the young slovak journalist jan kuciak and his girlfriend martina kusnirova (february 22th - 25th, they were found death in their house after few days), the masses are waking up and not longer willing to tolerate the overwhelming corruption in slovakia. jan was investigating on connection between highest slovak politicians and italian mafia who together robbed the funds from EU for slovakia.

the corruption is a real problem in slovakia, you know? the top politicians robert fico, robert kalinak and many others are connected to fraud, infidelity, lies and even if the specific cases are proven by media, the responsible state authorities like police & courts stop investigations or discharge the cheaters. no wonder the behave like gods if there are no consequences whatever they do ...
the recent murder was probably the last threshold which broke apart.

we were about 200 people in munich

jan + martina, R.I.P

munich for honest slovakia

in many cities in slovakia and abroad remembered the slovaks jan kucian + martina kusnirova and stand-up against corruption. source of the picture: the facebook protest event in munich https://www.facebook.com/events/354911111692315/

the most attendees came together in slovak capital bratislava with about 50,000 people and world wide maybe 120,000. this is a lot as slovakia is a quite small country with only 5 million inhabitants.

source of the picture: http://www.epa.eu/politics-photos/crime-citizens-initiative-recall-photos/anti-government-and-anti-corruption-protest-in-slovakia-photos-54185511 

what the people want: to see the premier robert fico and other corrupt top politicians (mostly from the leading smer party) in jail, source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/imagetaggy/s640x640/28754452_295603607637123_5980388655670231040_n.jpg

after the event we went to the nearby orlando cellar (celebrity cook alfons schubeck's restaurant) and discussed politics + society topics with friends

(very few) more pictures here
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addendum march 14th: it is so nice if an action leads to an intended change: on monday stepped back the slovak minister of interior kalinak and today even the head of government fico => sometimes works a protest of the masses so great :-)

garmisch ~ skiing with children

what a beautiful day with my adult children in the mountains today 😄☃🌞

 -> skiing with children in the garmisch classic ski area in garmisch-partenkirchen, bavaria.

our highest point today was the resraurant at the osterfelderkopf in 2,033 m

above sea level, just below the alpspitze (2628 m).

BMW race track with posssibility to win a BW x1 car

more pictures here.

garmisch is quite close to munich, so we are quite often here. we have made completely different opinion two years ago

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