24 September – Halsl the other way around
Two good to be true?
25 September – 3 churches again
Nice clouds this morning.
How do you like Vilnößtal?.
Popped into St. Peter’s church for a quick peek, having listened to its bells every 15 minutes since we’ve been here, and vainly tried to read the clock in its tower.
Kim finished reading his first ever Stephen King novel. It‘s a bit strange with invented „horror“ creatures as the author can invent the rules as he goes along. Not exactly a Sherlock Holmes story where things have a logic to them.
Gerhild finished „The little shop on the corner“ and she liked it a lot – just the right thing for a holiday.
26 September – Dusler Alm
On the way to Dusler Alm.
Just cast in bronze and sell for a fortune!
Why do we climb mountains?
A rare find – Boris Johnsonus Idioticus.
27 September – Early start in Teis
Breakfast with some Kamut rolls.
Ancient Tyrolean fence-making craft.
What is Gerhild taking a picture of?
Vilnößtal, what else.
28 September – Teddy comes for a walk
For our 2 favourite girls in Berlin.
Music for this walk
Hey Teddy, do you want to come for a walk?
Which way, which way?
Wow, what’s that?
Apples! Just lying on the grass!
Found me, found me.
Where is Teddy?
Just my size and I love the colour.
Hey! I‘m hungry too.
Mmmm. Cheese roll.
What‘s that?
It’s very pretty.
Gerhild found me a necklace under a mushroom. Maybe it’s magic?
Peek a boo.
Bet you can‘t see me!
Huh. There‘s nothing under this mushroom.
This way home.
29 September Travel
260 km 3h 5 m von Kabishof nach München
Bahnfahrt
Corsica – plan
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- Corsica – plan
- Friday 7 Feb – Calvi
- Saturday 8 Feb – Piana
- Sunday 9 Feb – Piana
- Monday 10 Feb – Ajaccio
- Tuesday 11 Feb – Ajaccio, pointe de la parata
- Wednesday 12 Feb – Corte
- Thursday 13 Feb – Corte
- Friday 14 Feb – Montemaggiore
- Saturday 15 Feb – Plage de l’Arinella
- Sunday 16 Feb – Vallée du Fango
- Monday 17 Feb – l’île rousse
- Tuesday 18 Feb – Cassano Monte Zingu
- Wednesday 19 Feb – La Revellata
- Thursday 20 Feb – Notre Dame de la Serra
- Friday 21 Feb
Norway
11.05.2020 bis 22.06.2020
https://thomasdambo.com/works/forgotten-giants/
https://trollmap.com/#/@54.2891×12.0375z6.13
Uta recommended Lofoten
Norwegens Nationalfeiertag 15 Mai
https://www.nasjonaleturistveger.no/en/
Internationale Festival in Bergen from 20 May for 15 days program.
Mandaljazz 2020 20 -29 June – very southern tip of Norway.
Friday 7 Feb – Calvi
06:25 Berlin (Tegel) AF 1135 to Paris (CDG) arrive 08:15
The bus to Orly takes about 90 minutes.
15:55 Paris (Orly – Terminal 3) AF4468 to Calvi, arrive 16:25
Hotel Calvi Marina https://www.hotel-mariana.com/en/ Hôtel Mariana, Avenue Santa Maria, 20260 CALVI
First impressions – Calvi airport is enjoyably tiny. Starlings deafening in the palm trees by the seafront. Fish & chips / salad in one of the few open restaurants for an expensive €70 (with 500 ml of Sicilian red). Snow on the mountain tops.
Saturday 8 Feb – Piana
The sun rose over the mountains at quarter past eight.
Calvi beach
Stock up at Spar Supermarket – Route de Calenzana, 20260 Calvi
Drive to Piana 2 h
Look who we bumped into on top of a hill!
This fellow wasn‘t very talkative.
Les calanches de Piana porto korsika unesco
Résidence de la Tour, Piana https://www.booking.com
Sunday 9 Feb – Piana
Walk 13 – 7 km 3 h
The walk goes to the tower on the hill at the end.
The link for the guys with a drone Youtube channel
Picnic looking down into Cala di Palu.
Corsican colours
Friar‘s Cowl
Corsican steps
Kim thinking lofty thoughts
The view from our balcony – Residence de la Tour Piana
Monday 10 Feb – Ajaccio
Last look around Piana
The house where we stayed.
Bits of the village not yet done up.
Drive to Ajaccio 1.5 h
Ajaccio apartment https://www.booking.com €500 cash deposit required.
Evening walk along new EU-sponsored footpath (narrowing the road!).
Tuesday 11 Feb – Ajaccio, pointe de la parata
Walk 27 – Sentier des Douaniers
There was so much to enjoy on this walk, we only did half of it.
Shadow selfie
Our picnic spot
Wednesday 12 Feb – Corte
Quick look at Ajaccio (pronounced Adjgaksio) after discovering that Napo-Rama is closed for the winter.
Window in Ajaccio.
Drive to Corte 1h 25 m
Well-aged entrance to the apartment.
Corte apartment https://www.booking.com
First impressions can be deceptive. Great apartment! Check out the wash-basin.
On the way up through the village.
View from the belvedere up to the old castle.
From one mountain goat to the next.
Small, free contemporary art museum in Corte https://www.frac.corsica
Gerhild shows solidarity with the Corsican women.
Kim is trying to understand the Corsican man.
The motto over our fireplace –
Friends are silent angels who put us back on our feet when our wings no longer know how to fly.
Thursday 13 Feb – Corte
Walk 20 with a picnic today and a nice blue February sky.
Peekaboo
Kim‘s Corsican Cone hat
That‘s Corte castle down there.
Stony steps keep you on your toes.
Mirror, mirror on the wall…
Friday 14 Feb – Montemaggiore
Cassano
Beautiful walk to Montemaggiore on Valentine’s day.
Eglise de Montegrosso
What is Fiona photographing?
Saturday 15 Feb – Plage de l’Arinella
The living room in the morning
The view from the balcony
Coffee at Spar
Swinging time on the beach
Biggles on the beach
Corsican February
Sunday 16 Feb – Vallée du Fango
Another beautiful day.
Fango river
Having a little rest.
The world famous zebra stone.
Concert of Corsican songs
Monday 17 Feb – l’île rousse
Kim tangled with a Triffid.
This pair really sock it to them.
Have you heard the one about …
Look at the wild asparagus which Fiona & Andy collected – yum!
Played Keith Haring cards in the evening – Black Lady aka Hearts
Tuesday 18 Feb – Cassano Monte Zingu
Kite flying into the sun to confuse the mice.
Almond blossom
The Asphodel
People used them to make crosses in order to protect the harvest and with the dry leaves they filled mattresses. Its popular names is fiori di morti – “flower of the dead”. The official name of the variety found in Corsica is in fact Asphodelus ramosus.
When heated its bulbs explode like fireworks, on the feast day for Saint John the Baptist children hold them in the fire built in the village square and then knock them against stones to make them bang.
For centuries it was planted near tombs to nourish the dead. It also fed the living.
The asphodel is edible: its bulb can be made into a kind of bread. It lost its importance as food after the introduction of the potato in the 18th century. The asphodel became known as “the bread of the poor”. It continued to be appreciated for its medicinal properties in treating ailments such as indigestion, coughs, inflammations, ulcers, toothache, as well as tuberculosis…
Source: https://www.terracorsa.info/aspho.html
Thursday 20 Feb – Notre Dame de la Serra
Walk to the cemetery and back. Andy photographing us photographing him.
Corsican curiosity.
Notre dame de la Serra
Picnic under the church.
As the sun sets on our last full day on Corsica…
Friday 21 Feb
Drive from Cassano to Bastia airport (Googlemaps link) takes at least 1 hour 50 minutes.
14:15 Bastia AF4460 to Paris (Orly), arrive 15:50
20:40 Paris (CDG) to Berlin (Tegel), arrive 22:25