day two: anton and i at the arlberg pass (1800 m)

going down on the other side of the mountain, we reached 60 km/h.
totally worth the way up!

i’ll be posting photos of our bike trip on a rough one-per-day basis (if time allows).

first up: teams A and B set off for spain on their bikes on july 12th.

teams A (mom&dad) and B (anton&markus) all packed up and ready to start

we shared exactly 69 meters of the route, and then turned in opposite directions at the next intersection.
mom and dad (team A) made for the brenner pass, which would lead them into italy, while anton and i went east, heading for the arlberg pass and switzerland.
great things were afoot. :)

today i jumped from europabrücke (europe’s 2nd highest bridge, and – apparently – one of the highest bungee-places in the world).
key data: 192 m (bridge height), 40 m (normal rope length), 170 m (maximum rope length when stretched), 120 km/h (maximum velocity)

i had completely forgotten i could actually release that much adrenaline. :)
 

big thanks to stefan for taking pictures.

when we got back from our quick tour through austria, a special event was already coming up: “almkirchtag” in the museum of tyrolean farms.
almkirchtag is a tyrolean (austrian?) traditional festivity which takes place once a year in an “alm” (which, in this case, means an alpine restaurant rather than a mountain pasture).
in the museum, however, it’s the time when the old buildings are filled with life, and real tyrolean traditions are revived and displayed in this setting: tyrolean music and song, tyrolean delicacies and specialties, handiwork etc.

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here’s a panorama from last sunday:

panorama: dress rehearsal with the choir and orchestra

it was taken during the dress rehearsal (the bass was on tacet), a few hours before we performed j. haydn’s theresia mass with the wilten boys’ choir (wiltener sängerknaben) and innstrumenti orchestra.
an ingenious piece of music!

a week ago, i drove past a cornfield with so much poppy in it, it could have easily been considered an opium field with a little corn.
it was so beautiful, i got off the bike and spent the next 15 minutes trying to capture the scene.

panorama: corn field with poppy (papaver rhoeas)

just now, while uploading, i tried to remember where exactly that field was. i ended up using google earth to compare the lanscape and mountains, and retraced the location in no time: the area just east of volders, austria.

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i took this pictures just a few hours ago.

view of mariahilf and the inn river, innsbruck

the days are getting longer. :)