by the way: expect a photo update within the next time (weekend?) – i know i’m behind…

mj

first of all: i just released the pictures!

there are some other things/photo explanations i wanted to add to my holidays in spain…

due to their apparent addiction to mountains, tyroleans just can’t stay away from them. to abide the stereotype, we decided to go to mount montgó, near denia (see part 2). it’s only 800 meters (2600 ft) high, but still it was a nice forenoon-trip – not very exhausting though..
the interesting thing is that once we reached the plateau, every not-overgrown part of soil was covered with snail-shells.

we also went to a cave called “cueva de les calaveres”. the legend says that the moorish king what’s-his-name ali-moho was once living inside the cave with a harem of 400 women. sounds pretty depletive :wink:

in part 3 there’s a picture of luis’ car that we used in spain (he has it down there permanently). right after that one picture i took of it, it broke! the battery suddenly was so empty that even the “door-open”-lights stayed dark. so after lots of asking people for jump start we got to drive for about 10 minutes. then, the motor died off again (when we were standing at a red light). it took us some time to find another friendly spanish man who had jump-start-wires AND wanted to help us. we barely got to our accomodation – the motor stalled right when we were rolling up the driveway…
still, in my opinion it was a fun evening – talking to so many people.

be sure to check out the (very short) spanish folklore-samples recorded!

[lyrics quote of the moment]
and you’re thinking about how someone died that day
the you that was so carefully planned
but then again maybe this life is like a sleeping mountain
waking up to shape the land
vienna teng – eric’s song

[view photos: denia / spain, part 1]
[view photos: denia / spain, part 2]
[view photos: denia / spain, part 3]

[view sample video 1] [2] [3]

 
***edit***
our denia-homepage (with information on our vacation apartment) is online now, too: www.nolf.org/denia.

i’ve completed my work on pictures i never posted – there are 2 more “new old ones”:

[view photos: garden flowers]
[view photos: into the woods]

i’m starting to choose the spain-photos now. might take some time, though.

[lyrics quote of the moment]
I just want to be living as I’m dying
just like everybody here
just want to know my little flicker of time is worthwhile
and I don’t know where I’m driving to
but I know I’m getting old
and there’s a blessing in every moment every mile
vienna teng – homecoming [link]

this evening i returned from my one-week-holiday in spain.
i headed to denia (near valencia) with my brother and two friends.
very nice climate down there – with (partly) more than 30° celsius ashore and 24° celsius in the sea. ;-) very very nice, considering that we left austria with snowy mountains!
we had a good time, met some very nice folks, and enjoyed summer – finally.

anyway, it took us some time to get spanish waitresses to smile, but we did succeed. :-)

it’ll take me some time to upload pictures, especially since i took a lot of nature shots.

more details later!

i’ve started catching up with older pictures… although this is the one and only post for today.

on september 17th i took a closer look at the wild sunflower that grows in our garden.
the weather was nice, by the way – easy to remember if there’s only like 4 nice days in august&september ;-)

and now, guess who’s going to spain :-)

[view photos: bees]

so friday turned out to be one of the greatest days i’ve ever had…
meeting eric cheng in person, and getting to know andy, lars, aline and laura was a great experience, and inspiring in many ways!
i didn’t doubt the meeting-up to be nice, i just didn’t know how much i was going to enjoy it!

it was great getting to know all of them, yet it’s a pitty we couldn’t hang out for a longer time – one day just flies :-(
i’m totally looking forward to seeing you guys again (where/whenever that may be ;-) )!

thank you for having me!!

so although i had no ‘real’ sleep for over 50 hours, i’m only a little tired. probably the last burst before coma ;-)
gotta pack for tomorrow, still…

[lyrics quote of the moment]
and it really doesn’t matter that we don’t eat
and it really doesn’t matter if we never sleep
no it really doesn’t matter, really doesn’t matter at all
’cause we are so young now, we are so young, so young now
and when tommorow comes, we can do it all again
the corrs – so young

[view eric's journal]
[view photos]

for the last three days i was visiting hamburg with my brother and my aunt&uncle.
actually, they’re my goti and her husband. but ‘goti’ is a kindof regional word and limited to some parts of tyrol. so it’s hard to find a translation better than ‘female godfather’ (which in this case includes being my aunt)…
but that sounds too much like italy and the mafia :-)

wow, being precise is exhausting!

anyway, we went up there on thursday overnight and arrived in the morning.
sightseeing included the world’s largest model railway, the beautiful church of st. michael, the historical hanseatic speicherstadt, the botanical garden, the plane-arium (i prefer the southpark-version leaving out the ‘t’… ;-)), a harbour tour, and much more.
i can’t believe how much we managed to do&see in the past few days!

it was an amazing trip! we had lots of fun and did cool stuff!
hamburg’s a beautiful city with (mostly) friendly citiziens. i especially liked the way of combining new&old regarding construction. plus, i love brick buildings, and hamburg’s full of them.

photos will be posted within the next 24 hours!
see some 360°x360° pictures in the mean time.

***update***
[view photos: trip to hamburg, part 1]
[view photos: trip to hamburg, part 2]
[view photos: trip to hamburg, part 3]