Good breakfast with Felix at Schwabinger Wassermann.
We walked home, through the old olympic park.
A small surprise up in a tree.
Quiet street to park in, near to the olympic park.
Carola showed us this small church built in the chaos following the 2nd world war by the famous Väterchen Timofej.
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Väterchen Timofej.
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Very tasty Afghan meal for lunch www.nigin.de.
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https://www.kunsthalle-muc.de/flowers-forever/
RU XIAO FAN Ode an die Meditation.
According to the American environmentalist Paul Hawken, the average adult in the Western world knows over 1,000 brand names or logos, but fewer than ten local, native plants. Based on this, Tracey Bush began asking people which plants they could confidently identify. Using found packaging material from the streets of London, the artist created her collages, which combine the bright colors and shapes of the advertising industry with precise contours of flowers.
Electronic flowers.
Two sides of the same non-binary teapot!
This 1883 teapot is a mockery of so-called Aestheticism, an art movement in the second half of the 19th century. While the woman on the one side of the teapot is unknown, the man on the other is meant to represent homosexual writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), who was one of the most influential representatives of Aestheticism. The calla lily and sunflower adorning their chests were central motifs of the movement. Collecting porcelain was very popular in these circles, who strove to surround themselves solely with the most beautiful objects.
I hope that I never find this flower in the garden!
Delicious fragrance of honey in this room.
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Today we said goodbye to the bull washers and had a rainy drive to Munich.
Today we walked up to the fortress.
Part of Salzburg is glued to the mountainside.
Let’s hope the bridge can bear the weight of all those padlocks.
The Residenzplatz dedicated to us pedestrians.
Great sign for the beer cellar.
A view from the top.
The weather’s just right today.
What’s not to like about Erwin Wurm‘s gherkins?
We are in Mozart‘s Salzburg, so this could be the bird catcher (Vogelfänger), although they call it the „wild man“.
A “Clavier”. We enjoyed a cheerful harpsichord concert of Mozart music in the Fischbrunnensaal in the Alte Residenz, where they used to cool the fish before cooking them for the bishop. After the concert, the harpsichordist jumped on his bicycle and zoomed off.
With three tea timers to choose from, which one does Gerhild take? Afro cafe
Anselm Kiefer has some thorny subjects in his lead books…
No, it’s not Boris Johnson playing king of the world.
The entrance to Maxim‘s.
This work by Anselm Kiefer reminds me of Harry Potter owls.
I don‘t eggzactly know what this is, but it’s like a fairy tale.
That was a big piece of cake Kim scoffed today.
Nice, but who are they waiting for?
Just who is doing the driving here?
Reminds Kim of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves, but I‘m sure the artist had something else in mind.
Today we took the bus to Schloss Hellbrunn https://www.hellbrunn.at/en/.
This place is loads of fun!
Looks so peaceful.
Appearances can be deceptive.
The bishop‘s two heraldic symbols.
This place was designed for people to have fun.
The grottoes are full of surprises too.
Part of a large water-powered automaton.
Some very wild pigs.
No chance of getting away dry.
This cheerful looking scene tells of a macabre story of a hunter magically turned into a deer to be torn to pieces by his own dogs.
A rather mixed up creature here.
Give us a kiss.
Today we moved to Salzburg. Reisemobilstellplatz Salzburg €33/night.
Meanwhile, over in London…
Kim‘s royal career would have failed at his first contact with a horse.
Nice his and hers hats.
While in Salzburg, Gerhild is cooking.
And Kim is checking the temperature of the wine.
Beautiful sunny day for a walk through the forest in the Gesäuse national park.
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The view from our shady picnic spot.
River Enns
Sunshine fun
Today we (accidentally) drove over a mountain pass on the way to Campingplatz Forstgarten €33/night.
Kim juggling with a snowball at Salzstiegl.
Beautiful spot to camp.
Tons of space.
Picnic tables too.
River Enns is next to the campsite.
Flashy information centre for the national park.
We went for a little walk today.
The Hirschegger Rundroas.
Gerhild‘s favourite swamp flower.
Who needs an electric train set!
Is my hair straight?
Fascinating, but what is it? A butterbur.
(Griechen und Römer schätzten die Pestwurz (lateinisch Petasites) im 1. Jahrhundert gegen bösartige Geschwüre ebenso wie die Menschen im Mittelalter, die sie gegen die Pest einsetzten.)
Bit steep this bit.
Thirsty work walking.
Kim.
Today is a rainy day so we left Graz after 6 days, did some food shopping, bought new windscreen wiper blades and drove up into the mountains to Hirschegg. Camping-Hirschegg about 900 m above sea level.
There are lots of walks around here Bergfex walks
They make space for everyone here –
Space for us.
Space for our insect pals.
Space for who?
Space for our feathered friends, and their family…
The first of May, so
Nothing on today
Hurray
Today we went by bus to the Austrian Sculpture Park.
Erwin Wurm‘s “Fat House”. When you go inside, the humour doesn’t stop.
Every fat house needs a fat car. Let’s not talk about what sort of driver it needs.
A couple of chips off the old block.
Werner Reiterer „gesture“. In the background Peter Weibel “our planet as a suitcase”
Fractal fun with cubes.
A ship which will eventually be made up of living trees!
Everything is green and luscious.
Who nests in that?
Nice old house which plays a merry tune occasionally with two twirling figures.
YouTube video of the glockenspiel
Quite human these lions.
Flying ploughs which enticed us into a friendly garden cafe. Gatto im Volksmuseum
Tricky drinking coffee when you’re swinging back & forth.
This guy was very quiet.
Interesting sculpture from just after the war. Wiki article.
Unkind to fish!
I‘m the king of the castle …
Today we looked inside the Friendly Alien aka the Kunsthaus Graz.
Why paint a picture if you can weave it?
Look at all of that work!
Nice work, but it will need mowing now and then.
Collage by Peter Kogler.
Indicating Apparent, True and Absent Colors by Lisa Truttmann.
Stupid artist, look what a big nose he gave me! Pity, no rain today.
Beautiful door.
The fantastic Dada Zirkus https://www.dadazirkus.at/
Good web site https://www.graztourismus.at/en
The entrance to our camp site.
They like gold leaf in Graz.
We climbed up the hill with the castle on top.
Graz is very proud of this clock, high up on the hill for everyone to see.
What is that black thing?
A „friendly alien“, designed by Peter Cook & Colin Fournier from London.
Coffee and cake here in the middle of the river Mur.
I think street corners in Berlin ought to have elephants too.
Gerhild likes this angel.
Kim prefers this one.
On the way to Graz we stopped at Gut Gasteil to stroll around their open air sculptures.
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Nice signs to tell you what’s what.
So what’s in the big white box?
Not just a free sit-down, but gratis books too!
We gratefully took one each.
What are the deer looking at?
Gerhild playing a wind harp.
The middle one isn’t a sculpture, it’s Kim.
Interesting.
Father & son.
The view is not bad even on a grey day like today.
Nice work. The trees are impatient for spring too, just like us.
Our camp site in Graz http://www.reisemobilstellplatz-graz.at/ €34 per night.
Today we went to the Kunstforum to discover Kiki Kogelnik.
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Nice shoes!
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Nice Turkish cavalry man decorating a street corner.
The weather forecast was quite right and it has rained today, so we had a domestic day. Did some washing, emptied the waste water tank, filled the fresh water tank, emptied our on board toilet cassette, wrote some messages and did a bit of reading.
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Beautiful day today.
How could we visit Vienna without Kim eating Wienerschnitzel? Meierei Diglas in the Türkenschanzpark was just perfect.
ZiegenKäse-WaffelBurger | Rucola | BalsamKarotten | BärlauchDip
ErdbeerTopfenKnödel | ButterBrösel | VanilleSauce
Unsere Selbstgemachten Ingwer-Limetten-Limonade und Basilikum-Lavendel-Limonade
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Next stop Karl-Marx-Hof and the Waschsalon
Viennese communism after they kicked the emperor out. Tax the rich to build for the poor.
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Great fish!
“So a boy borrows a book, sits down on the library steps, reads his book, and before the library closes, he has finished it and asks for a new one!”
Child labour in the Viennese architecture!
The Karlskirche
Friendly sculpture near the enormous Russian war memorial, but what’s it made of?
One million copper Euro coins. Friendship made of money? https://www.raisinghands.net/
Today we took the famous no. 71 tram to the Zentralfriedhof
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Blessed disinfectant to keep evil at bay.
Today we went to the Belvedere, to see some Gustav Klimt. https://www.belvedere.at/ (6 videos)
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt
Not Gustav Klimt
Lion-hearted woman in the garden.
We came across the Ankeruhr just as it was starting its special 12 o’clock sequence.
The Ankeruhr.
This isn‘t the Secession is it?
Nope, something for tourists to play with.
Something‘s not quite right here.
The golden cabbage aka the Secession.
University library with huge owl.
Lovey-dovey traffic lights.
The renowned Café Sperl.
Place for a good chat.
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In the underground.
Paid €29 for 2 months on Austria‘s motorways. A nice Austrian policeman directed us to a weighbridge – 3.6 tonnes, which exceeds our 3.5 nominal weight. „Camper“ he said and waived us on…
Camping Neue Donau €30,60/night. A 15 min. Walk from Donaustadtbrücke U station.
Look at the decoration!
One hundred years later…
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Who needs house numbers if you’ve got these?
Heavy metal girl.
Next to the underground station.
We enjoyed the evening with Leah and Mirek.
Today we went to see an exhibition of Czech toys in Chvalský castle. http://www.chvalskyzamek.cz/.
Pavel Macek showed some „Twistoscopes“ and „Inspectacles“ – Boxes with a scene which the spectator can set in motion with a handle. A sort of free penny arcade machine, or an inside out automaton.
The boxes have been repurposed e.g. From an old sewing machine cover.
Peer inside and you might see this
Or this
Or this
All moving of course. In this case the rats fleeing Hamelin, following the pied piper.
DIY puppet show. Kim hasn’t learned to keep his head down yet.
There’s no strings on them!
Ironing the Czech way.
All of the best toys wear hats.
A pipe-smoking donkey riding a scooter, an everyday sight in Prague?
Kim as a Bohemian officer.
Coronavirus cake in the Legion Bank (Legionářská banka).
Very elegant way to keep the weather at bay.
Today we went for a walk along the Moldau. Then we visited Puppets in Prague.
We saw some women carrying baskets around covered with heavily embroidered cloths. All for Ukrainian Easter!
This inspires me to make my own version – passing the baby.
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Mirek‘s work is always an inspiration.
Today we popped in to the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague.
This fearsome feline guards the entrance.
We visited the poster exhibition.
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This is the way to go shopping!
This is how to sell chocolate.
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Well, who wouldn‘t prefer an adding machine to a big kiss?
Contemporary shop window for a very expensive shop.
Old Prague has some pretty flashy buildings.
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Palác Archa — Radiobeitrag über die Bank
Inside the bank.
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In the evening we went to see „Black Theatre“ in the srnec theatre
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It’s a rainy day today, so we moved to Prague.
€20 for È-toll for 10 days on Czech motorways.
Campsite €35,87/night
129, Trojská 357, 171 00 Praha-Troja, Czechia
+420 283 850 482
www.campdana.cz
🌧️ Too wet to walk about so get creative instead. 🌧️
Today we walked to the border between Germany & the Czech Republic.
This is a national park but no one told the bark beetles.
The trees are sad, but the tree fungus is happy.
Kim is happy too.
First sight of the border.
The left bank is Czech Republic, the right bank is Germany. The boat is for tired walkers.
Lots of rocky faces if you squint your eyes a bit.
Quite steep going up.
Almost home after 11 km.
Time to leave Berlin for Camping “Thorwaldblick” in Hinterhermsdorf.
Schandauer Str. 37, 01855 Sebnitz
+493597450648
www.thorwaldblick.de €31/night
Umgebindehaus!
Looks like a nice place to eat.
Parachuting Easter bunny
These baby sycamore trees who have made themselves at home on our camper obviously think that spring has arrived so it must be time to set off!
Kim und Gerhild haben gehofft, dass das berühmte schottische Loch Ness Monster aus dem Wasser auftaucht. Sie haben es aber leider nicht entdeckt. Enttäuscht gingen sie zum Camper zurück.
Als sie weg waren kam eine kleine Stimme und sagte: „Sind sie weg?“.
„Ja“ sagte eine andere, noch piepsigere Stimme.
„Dann haben wir wieder unsere Ruhe“ sagte eine dritte, sogar noch piepsigere Stimme, „Die Menschen schauen immer in die Ferne, nie in die Nähe.“
„Zum Glück“ sagte die erste Stimme.
Und dann kicherten sie alle zusammen.
Heute haben wir ein kleines, geheimnisvolles Häuschen entdeckt. Kim hat geklopft und ein Bär im Schottenrock hat aufgemacht. „Wir kommen aus Berlin“ sagte ich. „Bärlin!“ sagte der Bär „Toll, willkommen in Schottland. Kommt rein, wir trinken eine Tasse Tee zusammen.“ Schön gemütlich war es und es gab auch noch schottische Shortbread-Kekse dazu.
Liebe Grüße von
deinem grünen Bärchen
Eines Tages war Gerhild so müde, dass sie nicht weiter laufen konnte. Im Wald gab es zum Glück viele freundliche schottische Tiere.
„Zu groß“ piepste der Otter.
„Zu schwer“ seufzte die Eule.
„Zu dick“ knurrte der Baummarder.
„Ich schaffe es“ sagte der Fuchs.
Und so kam Gerhild blitzschnell zum Camper und Kim hechelte langsam hinterher. Er hat schließlich nur zwei Beine.
Als er am Camper ankam haben Gerhild und der Fuchs Tee getrunken und ein Stück Kuchen geteilt.
Schottland ist ein magischer Ort. Heute, unser letzter Tag in Schottland, waren Gerhild und ich spazieren und wir haben diesen tollen Vogel getroffen. „Hallo“, sagte ich, „ich bin ein Engländer“. „Angenehm“ sagte der Vogel, „ich bin ein Fasan“. „Warum bist Du so groß?“ fragte ich. „Warum bist Du so klein?“ antwortete der Vogel und kicherte laut als er wegflog. Vielleicht habe ich es geträumt, aber ich glaube es war Zauberei.
Heute waren wir im wunderschönen Himalaya Garten und haben viel blauen Klatschmohn gesehen. Gerhild hat gefragt „Wieso blau und nicht rot?“.
„Weil ich sie angemalt habe“ sagte eine Stimme von oben aus dem Baum. Es war ein Eichhörnchen und es hieß Emil. „Ich bin hoch geklettert und habe mit meinem Schwanz Farbe vom Himmel geholt“ erzählte es. „Jetzt sind die Blumen herrlich, himmlisch, himalayisch.“
Gerhild sagte „wie schön, danke Emil“.
„Gern geschehen“ sagte Emil und verschwand in der Baumkrone.
This is our last stop (Campingplatz Räbke) before Berlin to make ourselves presentable and the camper fit for winter.
One more sunny afternoon as we arrived.
Autumn has arrived and we will arrive tomorrow.
Parked overnight in the ferry terminal and then chugged over to Hook of Holland.
Good camp site, plenty of our feathered friends think it’s a great place for the night too.
I have to admit, that they got an earlier start than we did.
Today we stopped at Colchester to buy some food and then had a look around.
Willow sculpture of a royal coat of arms.
Sign for the George Inn. I don’t know if the dog or the man is called George.
Odd to see an estate agent in a historic building like this.
It was a surprise to find such a smart art gallery here. https://firstsite.uk/
Two cars by Julian Opie.
DIY design a house project.
Colourful cafe for a break in between.
Delicious lunch in the Soho Masala Zone then we wandered about.
Soho wall map.
Striding down Carnaby Street with Julian Opie’s “Shaida Walking”.
Golden Square being polished up.
What’s this street called?
Never get tyred of the Bibendum building.
Nice head in Chelsea by Emily Young in Portuguese rose marble.
Today we went to see Peter & Anne.
Amazingly, on the way to Peckham, we got to ride in an antique London bus today – for free and with a bus conductor!
City of London 2022.
Before going to see Camilla & Mario, we strolled through Regents Park
Hercules Meets Galatea by Matthew Darbyshire.
Tunnel-Tell (Ceci Sera) by Alicja Kwade.
Dubito Ergo Cogito by Ron Arad.
Kim thinks therefore he doubts.
Vertical Plane Me by Jordy Kerwick.
Sim and the Yellow Glass Birds by Peju Alatise.
Big Time by Emma Hart.
Today we travelled by bus (1/2 hour) and Underground (Victoria line) into London to see Renate.
The 215 bus stop is right outside the camp site.
