Evening and morning in the Alps

Our evening view before slipping in the bivy (bivouac sack) in the East Tyrol Alps, Austria January 2015

Sky Watch Friday 

Sleeping bags drying on the fence from a alpin cottage the next morning 

The bivy, without our sleeping bags

Alps

ABC Wednesdays letter this week is A.

Trekking with snowshoes in the Alps

Walking through fresh snow in East Tyrol 

Home is where you pitch the tent

Breakfast

Our bedroom

Our World Tuesday

Reflections

Reflections on a alpin cabin high up in the alps. This cabin is used in summer for seasonal mountain pasture. we pitched our tent beside the cabin.
Weekend Reflections

This is the beginning

The beginning of a new day, of a new year in the Alps in East Tyrol. We had a wonderful time here when we did some trekking with snowshoes. While staying high in the mountains in our tent or in the bivouac we enjoyed awesome sunsets and sunrises.
You know we aren't mad, we only do things a bit different, sometimes.

Sky Watch Friday

Tree in the Danube-Auen

Andreas exploring the roots, 2008, Austria

ABC Wednesday - G is for ...

Hainburg, Austria

Linked to ABC Wednesday. G is for Gate.

ABC Wednesday - F

People and bike ferry across the Danube in Au, Austria

Crossing the wide Danube river from Ram to Stara Palanka in Serbia, (Andreas with the bike)



The tuck boat is pulling the ferry




On the big ferry crossing the Kootenay Lake in BC, Canada



My ABC Wednesday for this week is ferry.

Danube reflection #2 in black and white

On the Danube river in Vienna, Austria

Linked to The Weekend in Black and White. The version in color here.

Danube reflection #2

On the Danube river in Vienna, Austria

Linked to Weekend Reflections. A version in black and white here.

Danube River

the sign post for the bike trail along the Danube

in Austria near Hainburg, close to the border to Slovakia



River cruise ship in Novi Sad, Serbia



In Romania, a fantastic place for our tent

Linked to signs, signs

Danube-Auen National Park

From Wikipedia:
The Danube-Auen National Park (German: Nationalpark Donau-Auen) covers 93 square kilometres in Vienna and Lower Austria and is one of the largest remaining floodplains of the Danube in Middle Europe.


The park was designated an IUCN category II national park and spans the areas of Vienna (Lobau), Groß-Enzersdorf, Orth an der Donau, Eckartsau, Engelhartstetten, Hainburg, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Petronell-Carnuntum, Regelsbrunn, Haslau-Maria Ellend, Fischamend and Schwechat.

Danube River, near Hainburg, Austria, 2008

Linked to Our World Tuesday

Vienna

At the Hofburg Palace, Vienna 2008

Linked to Straight Out of the Camera Sunday

A is for Austria



Abbey Melk, Austria 2008




Braunvieh (German: Brown cattle), typical for Austria

 This is for the new round of ABC Wednesday. I don't know if I'll stick to geographical words. This is the beginning.
I spend my childhood holidays in our neighboring country.

Shipping signs at the Danube



Every hundred meters, in Austria near Tulln, August 2008



Kilometric sign in Oltenita, Romania, Oktober 2008



The hecto metric signs are the red numbers on the white ground along the Danube. That's a  lot of work to paint the stones. Kilometric signs are white on black boards.

Linked to signs, signs





Someone is watching

On a permanent camp site in Austria. August 2008.

I like the way how this permanent camper is playing with the
prejudice. While waking along the Danube we stayed in our tent on camp sites. Often there is a big gab between the people who stay there and the people who move on (mostly by bike) and only carry light. Permanent campers keep an eye on their exactly trimmed lawn and hedge.