It is unbelievable how busy one can be not even to manage to write a couple of lines to ones friends. . . .
Where to start? My Master Semester has already started ages ago (End of September, but it feels like ages) and I am looking forward to celebrate Christmas Day with my lovely family. But before that there was the Tirol vacation:
Starting at Sunday the 14th of September. At 8am we got in the car and went south for about 13 hours. Crossing Hannover, Augsburg and Munich. Having sunshine, rain and nearly everything else we arrived at 8.45pm at our house up in the hills of Buchholz (Pochi)/Tirol. It is a little village above Salorno/Tirol which is the southest German village in Europe. Even if it is behind Austria and adjacend to Italy, it is still 50% German.
The next morning I got up early to get some fresh bread at the bakery, 200m up hill. It is only open from 7.30-11am and it is the only grocery at this area. To get some food or cigarettes or what else you need you have to drive a couple of K's to get it. And if you're lucky there is no siesta.
The next days we explored the area around the various apple and grapefields. They're huge and so beautiful. Not far from our house is the 'Kalterer See' one of the warmest lakes in Europe located in the mountains.
One afternoon we drove up the 1635m high 'Mendelpass'. Serpentines which seemed to have no end. We got on four nearly 1 hour until we reached the village. There we had a fantastic view over the whole area.
Back at the house I jumped into the pool. Cold but nice. You have a view over the mountains and can relay a little bit. Unfortunately it wasn't the 30°C all day long, which a friend had one week before, but it was still a relief to be somewhere else than Wismar. In the morning we only had about 3-5°C and than it got up to 20-24°C, depending on where your are.
The rest of our stay we went to Bozen, Neumarkt, tried to get to a couple of castles, but never found the path to them, we were walking through a nearby sculpture park and went back to restaurant on a really steep hill (I haven't seen those in Seattle or San Francisco and they have steep hills too), we enjoyed the sun at the deck and used the fireplace to warm up the house in the evenings.
After one lovely, mostly sunny week we headed back to Germany. After exhausting 15 hours we arrived back home. During the journey we had a fantastic view on the alps and again the impressing Allianz Arena in Munich.
It was nice to be out of Germany even only for a week.
The next week back home I had to get back to Wismar. My 1st Semester of my Master started . . . .
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