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Monday, April 1, 2013

On the Roof of Europe - the Alps.

The Alps - the highest mountains of Europe formed over hundreds of millions of years during the African and Eurasian tectonic plates' collision are one of the most interesting and beautiful mountains on the Continent.  The Alps run through eight countries: Slovenia, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France and Monaco. Their highest is Mont Blanc, its height is 4,810 m above sea level and is on the Italian-French border.
  But in that post I will write about the Austrian and German Alps. Our journey begin in the Alpine foreland in the eastern part of Austria, quite close to Vienna.




Thursday, March 21, 2013

Neuschwanstein Castle - in the German Wonderland

Neuschwanstein Castle - The 19th-century Romanesque Revival building is one of the most known castles in the World. It was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria who was probably mentally incompetent and wanted to escape to his own world. The king was murdered in a Bavarian lake not far from Munich before the castle had been completed.
  Now the castle is visited by over one million tourists a year what makes it the most often visted castle in Germany. Unfortunately taking photographs inside is forbidden there so I have only outside-looking photos.


Neuschwanstein Castle is situated in the Alps in the Southern Bavaria close to the German boder with Austria.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

The Polish Jurassic Highland - Winter 2013

The Polish Jura is an upland which runs from Częstochowa to Kraków. This is one of the most beautiful places in Poland because of its monadnocks which occurate there, creating various figures. When someone like climbing this place is for him.
 





Sunday, January 13, 2013

Let It Snow, let it snow...

Snowing outside the window, everything looks different, so it would have been a shame if I hadn't taken some photos of the Winter landscape in my favourite forest.

The forest in Winter looks very mysterious.



Tuesday, January 1, 2013

New Year's Eve 2013 Fireworks

In spite of the cold weather, I tried to take some photos of fireworks which were let in my neighbourhood on New Year's Eve 2012/2013.
Here they are: