Oak-Tree-Imbroglio
Fungi
Memento Mori
Rootstock
Wall, Door, Windows
Towards full Moon
Fitzcarraldo’s Dream (not seabound any more)
Urban Rainforest (with Wall)
Reaching out
Epiphytes
Rocky Mountains of Munich
Skywards
X-Alp 2024 to Grado. Day 8: The End
Trieste certainly is Italy’s number one city of coffee, so for me it was almost paradise… The bike trip coming from Grado was unspectacular but unexpectedly dangerous: Cyclists on main roads are – as in most places – second class citizens. We had avoided such roads on the biggest part of our trip, but on…
X-Alp 2024 to Grado. Day 7
Finally, the Mediterranean Sea! The plan was, that our bicycle trip would end here and we go by boat to Trieste to return by train back home. But the best laid plans… It turned out that the ferry boat had almost sunk in June this year and was not operating any more. Means that we…
X-Alp 2024 to Grado. Day 6
The wettest day of our adventure started with an inconspicuous drizzle in the morning, which slowly increased to a thunderstorm when passing through Udine, desperately trying to follow the routing indication on smartphone and Garmin watch. By the time we reached Palmanova, we were thorougly wet. But when we had showered, changed into dry clothes,…
X-Alp 2024 to Grado. Day 5
The day started with fair weather and a soft downhill bikepath on a former railway line, including many tunnels and underpasses to cross the highway – most of the time far away enough not to molest us with the ceaseless noise of cars and trucks. For coffee drinkers like me, Italy comes next to Paradise…
X-Alp 2024 to Grado. Day 4
On day 4 the weather was fine once again as we had proceeded far enough to the South, reaching the Italian border in the evening. Thanks to the Schengen treaty, nobody bothered with border control in any form. The morning had begun with fetching the bikes from the hotel’s bike garage, matchingly equipped with a…
X-Alp 2024 to Grado. Day 3 Rest
Writing WordPress-posts with the iphone proved to be overly difficult due to the small screen – and admittedly in the evening I was simply too tired to spend a lot of time with it after several hours of cycling. The third day started rainy, with a walk through Bad Gastein as we were scheduled for…
X-Alp 2024 to Grado. Day 2-3
Leaving Saalfelden Rain in Bad Gastein The wrong Path Rural Disco
X-Alp 2024 to Grado. Day 1
A father-daughter tour, me on a bike that’s older than my daughter. Mind you, this is not going to be a super sport event, more likely an age and working situation adapted thing. So today we did 54km, climbed 520m and were sweating like pigs under a clear sky, with temperatures reaching 30 deg. Celsius.…
Summer Heat
Pas de Deux
Three Trees (among others)
Away from the City
Berchtesgaden Peek-a-Boo
