Sunday, 4th of May 2008 at 08:03:09 PM

Biking Season Opening 2008

On Saturday we did our traditional Bike tour around the Lake Starnberg. A 50 km bike tour to start the season 2008. Sunday again a sunny day we used the enthusiasm for another small bike tour around Lake Staffelsee in Murnau. Here the first biking photos.

Christiane at the car parking where we started the tour.

We both in front of the Staffelsse with view to still snowy Alps.

A Blind-Backward-Bike-Photo with my head and my sunglasses. 

At the end of the tour, tired !

 

 

 

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Sunday, 18th of May 2008 at 11:35:50 AM

Tschüss Olli!

Oliver Kahn yesterday in the Allianz arena

Olliver Kahn: Yesterday, after his last Bundeslaga game.

… and 2h later at the championchip parade on Munichs  Leopoldstreet.

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Friday, 11th of July 2008 at 03:29:17 PM

Just returned from the Basque country

Ah oui! Nous sommes bien retournèes des nos vacances! I have talked a lot of french and I am fluent now. We have been for 20 days in the basque country located in Biarritz on the French site. It was planned as a sea and beach vacation but due to the often cloudy and mild temperatures we prefered travelling around. Bilbao, San Sebastian, Hodarribia, Irun, Hendaye, St. Jean de Lutz, Biarritz. Basque country was  a very nice experience.

 Of course I have shot a lot of photos which I need to screen in the next days.

Christiane with basque hat

Christiane and me with traditional Basque beret.

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Sunday, 20th of July 2008 at 09:22:11 PM

Photos from our Biarritz 2008 vacation now online

As usual you can find them on my homepage under the following link: Biarritz vacation 2008

On our flight home from Bilbao I made this nice photo showing our major vacation places. We were located in a beach village in Ondres.

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Sunday, 27th of July 2008 at 10:50:44 AM

Herzogstand-Heimgarten 2008

In 2007 as a preparation for my 220 km hike on the Camino de Santiago I had done the Hike to the Herzogstand (1730m). I was  in good shape then and it had took me 6 hours of quick hiking for the whole roundtrip. This year I am little bit fatty and not in good shape but I wanted to recheck if I can still do that hike in 6 hours. The hike starts in Urfeld upper forest parking lot at around 850m and in 1 h 30 min of steep nonstop climbing along a forest road I reached (totally wet from sweating) the Herzogstandhaus (1575 m). Another half hour later I reached the peak of the Herzogstand (1730 m) were I had a 10 min break with a Brezel and lot of water. I already knew that I am slower this time then the year before.

View from Herzogstand Peak (1730m) along the ridge to the Heimgarten Peak (1790m)  in the background.

The most beautiful part of the Hike is the ridge between the Peaks of the Herzogstand to the 60m higher elevated Heimgarten (1790 m). You have nice views to the Kochel Lake and the Lake Walchensee. Its always adventurous to do a ridge hike and here you have always these nice views down to the Kochel- and Walchen- Lakes, and to the Alps and you can see also very good to Lake Starnberg in the distance. Another Break at the Heimgarten where I stayed a little bit longer to enjoy the views and to relax, cause meantime I was really tired.

View back from Heimgarten to the Herzogstand peak with Lake Walchensee on the right.

Finally the easy part, another 2 hours walk down the Heimgarten from 1790m down to 850m at the small village of Walchensee directly at the same named Lake. The last part then the 4 km back to the car parking in urfeld  along the Lake  took me another 45 minutes. This year the whole trip took me 6h 30.

Down at the Walchensee Lake, view to the Jochberg (1570m).

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