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Back from Euromeet 09!!! | Sh;tball roller beetle, Southwest of Portugal, PT |
Intensive upload started of my photos from trip to Portugal! Text and tips are coming afterwards...
Name of the beetle in English?
Hi everybody!
Such a great time I have passed in Portugal. Travelling through the South of the country and then as the creme on the cake meeting the VT-community for the Euromeet in beautiful Cascais.
Latest changes:
I have started to add stuff from my Portugal trip. It goes slow, but hopefully steadily. So keep looking for changes. You will notice by the amount of new places that I have done much in the 2,5 weeks travelling... :)
Don't forget to check the rest of my pages.... :)))
Check out BBCs container box travelling around the world tracked with GPS!
Interesting links for travellers:
+ Weatherwarnings in Europe
+ Country profiles on BBC News Webpage
+ Youth hostels in Germany
+Interactive Bikemap Unterallgaeu (Kaufbeuren, Memmingen, Mindelheim) german only, just play you'll manage
+Interactive Bikemap Oberallgaeu (Füssen, Neuschwanstein, Kaufbeuren) german only, just play you'll manage
+Check the emergency numbers for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
+In case you are interested in how it looks like in places around Europe, check out this page with european or worldwide webcams.
+Maps (city maps) of Europe and US.
+Have a look at Wikipedia, it is an Online-Encyclopedia and contains beside general knowledge also infos on all different countries. It is available in a lot of languages...
+Here you can find tour files for GPS-devices. The files are sorted by country. It is also available in English.
+Listen to Radiostations from all over the world via the web.
Found them on the web and thought they might be interesting for you. Of course I have no responsibility for the contents of the linked pages, which I haven't created... :)
If it is against any law to place screen shots of Google Earth, please let me know. I will take them away then!
Have fun on my pages!!!
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German hiking:
Here I will add direct links to show hiking tours I did in the years I live in Kempten. All starting points for the trips are reachable by car within a maximum of 45 minutes. These great possibilities to do hiking in all skill levels is maybe the heaviest reason, why people love the Allgaeu as the perfect holiday region. Sooner or later I hope to find time to give some details about the tours and suggestions for you in the tipps area...
+Oytal-tour, which ended in thunder and lightning.
+Mittag from Immenstadt
+Nagelfluh from Gunzesried
+Hiking to an island on Oceans ground. Germans North Sea Coast
+Riedberger Horn
International hiking:
+Canyoning (Silz, Austria)
+Hiking above Nesselwaengle (Tannheimer Tal, Austria)
+From Ravello to Amalfi, Italy.
+Down to Positano, Italy
+Pisciotta, Italy
+Arkadi, Greece (Crete)
+Pinnacles National Monument, California, US
+Henry W. Coe State Park, California, US
+Big Basin Redwoods, California, US
+Bryce Canyon NP, Utah, US
+Pilpasuon Luontopolku, Oulu, FI
+Utakleiv, Lofoten, NO
+Ballstad, Lofoten, NO |
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| Harbour area G?tariver, G?teborg |
Neu-Anspach
My origin is located about 40 km north of Francfort close to the beautiful hills of the Taunus. There you can have nice walks in the forests. If you are there don't miss to check out the Hessenpark, with rebuilt timber-framed houses, and the Saalburg, a reconstructed roman fortress. It is located at the Limes, the former northern border of the roman empire.
Infopages:
Hessenpark (german and english)
Roman Fortress Saalburg (german, french and english)
Also check out my Travelogue in the Neu-Anspach section!
Sweden
An extremely nice time I spent in Sweden for in whole 2 and a half years, between '96 and '00. I studied at the Chalmers Tekniska Högskola and enjoyed being part of Göteborg, which was made really easy by the people I met. Tack saa jätte mycket till alla Svenskarna and of course also to my other friends who have been in the same situation at the beginning as me! I felt how important it is to give people support to start a new part in their life, namely a stay in a country whose language they do not understand. The great thing is, that you always get something back! It is the same thing these pages are base upon.... So keep on being (virtual-)tourist!!!!!
Crete, Greece
With a trip to Crete I discovered a great place to enjoy the sun and have a relaxing time from daily life by biking and hiking. Despite to get ill there, this trip stays very present in my memories. So many nice people and such a great nature. |
| Vulcano Stromboli (Italy) |
Sicilia
The holiday on Sicilia gave me the possiblility to experience the most impressive event of all my travels... a night hike to the top of Stromboli.Stromboli is really busy vulcano on the island with the same name. It is located north east of Sicilia. You HAVE to take a guided tour, otherwise it is too dangerous. I don't
know if it is possible anymore, after a large eruption quarter a year after my visit there ( It is not my fault... :) ).
Main part of my stay I have been to Cefalu, a nice town, from where it is good to go hiking in the close mountains of Madonie.
See more nightpics of the vulcano on the Stromboli pages.
La Gomera
Beside a trip to Toronto in '93 this trip was the most farest I did until now. The spanish LaGomera is part of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic close to the coast of Africa. I really enjoyed the great nature there. Influenced by African weather and its vulcanic origin a nice landscape has developed there. There are plants and animals which are just living on this island and nowhere else. |
Porto '03 & Cascais '09
Visiting a friend from my time in Sweden I got the chance to have a look at Porto and its surrounding. Porto is a great town with an interesting architecture. In the protected part (Unesco) the houses are really narrow standing side by side. Lots of houses are covered with ceramics, especially check out Porto's Central Station. The inside is amazing, see the photo which only shows a very small part of the walls.
I am really fond of the Port wine... ;)
The great VT meeting was a perfect opportunity to return to beautiful Portugal with its nice people. Before the come-together in Cascais I did a two weeks roadtrip through the south. Especially the border region to Spain with the small castle villages are very nice, but also the west coast with its landscape is a great destination! Hope to be back soon!
Lincoln
A result of my stay in Sweden is that I really like taking a ferry. So I didn't say no to the possibility to make a 'One-day-in-Lincoln-Trip'. Going by bus to Rotterdam, taking the ferry to Hull, proceeding to Lincoln and then the same thing back to Neu-Anspach. Sleeping on the ferry makes this an interesting trip. A great thing was, that we visited Amsterdam (I have already been there before) and Bruegge in Belgium. I didn't expect that it is such a nice place! |
| On oceans ground, Cuxhaven |
Cuxhaven
This year, 2005, was the first time ever I was at the Germans Northsea coast. Unfortunately so late in my life, as this place is a very special place on earth. Due to the moons gravitation force the earths water is moved on the surface of our planet. There is a sort of hill of water towards the moon. But on other places this water is missing. Therefore at some places the water level rises and falls twice a day. In many places (France or Canada) this difference of the level is much larger than here at the germans north sea, but due to the fact that the ground is very flat, it happens that the water completely disappears behind the horizont. So you can walk around for kilometers into the emptied ocean. But it has to be warned, cause people get trapped quite frequently and have to be rescued...
Also nice is a trip to Helgoland which is the only german island in international water. Therefore it is possible to buy taxfree there. But this is not the main reason to go there, it is the landscape! See the pages...
Campania
Another trip in 2005 brought me to Campania in bella italia. After my really nice holidays on Sicilia it was time again. Again I travelled with Frosch Sportreisen (sports travels), which offer a mixture of hiking, biking and cultural tours. This time I stayed about 2.5 hours south of Naples, just south of the Amalfi coast. It is a very beautiful area and of course the food didn't disappoint me!
Edmonton and Vancouver, Canada
A great experience in 2006 was to visit a class mate from Sweden in Canada after several years. I saw a lot of Edmonton and the surrounding. Also the very famous digging grounds for dinosaurs in the Badlands I could visit. The last week I spent in the beautiful and interesting town of Vancouver which I can highly recommend! |
California & Southwest
In 2007 three business trips with one extension for holidays allowed me to intensly explore the Bay-area as well as the whole Southwest of the States. With a lot of cultural places and scenic landscapes there is plenty to see. I was impressed and hope to be back there for some holidays.
Oulu, Finland
Up to very recently I was working temporarily in Finland and enjoyed the northern culture and landscape. Of course I collected a lot for my VT pages during my year there in Oulu.
Lofoten, Norway
Living in the 'southern' North of Finland made it possible to visit the stunning landscape of the Lofoten islands. These are among the most beautiful islands in the world. I am currently building up the pages and hope you will find some useful info and have fun visiting them. As I hiked there aswell, you will later find some entries in the hiking section above.
More to come...
Planned trips
Euromeet10 I am coming!!!
Roadtrip Finland/Sweden%L*
Anytime: Small trips in the region where I am ...
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evaanna Sat Jun 27, 2009 08:56 UTC
Hi Christian, you will be most welcome here. Hope you manage to explore other parts of Poland as well as Krakow. | portgrl Fri Jun 26, 2009 19:47 UTC
Hi Christian! It was nice to meet you too :) The lamp pic was taken in Foz, close to Matosinhos. Thanks for the comments :) | Fen Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:32 UTC
Hiya Christian, I'm good thanks. How are you..? Yes that was a good meeting in Portugal and I really liked Cascais. Such a lovely place..! | Nathalie_B Tue Jun 23, 2009 19:07 UTC
A kingdom for that rain, Christian!! Writing to you from HELL, 40 degrees tomorrow! Definitely missing the fun and the weather in Cascais :) |
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