Photos from Slovenia

Korada - Kanal at Soca

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Corylus avellana. Common hazel.

Forest on the Korada mountain.

The Soca river in Kanal at Soca. Picture taken from the bridge.

From Sabotin to Korada

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View of the Soca river.

Hikers on the mountain ridge above the Soca Valley.

Walking on the mountain ridge.

Salix caprea. Goat willow.

The Soca River

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Walking on the mountain ridge above the Soca Valley.

View of the Soca river from the mountain ridge.

The Soca Valley.

View from the mountain ridge above the Soca Valley.

Notice 3

2010-04-07T12:50:00.004+02:00

I am not permitted to submit comments about free press on the blog of a fighter for free press Brigitte Alfter.
It seems Brigitte is like our Slovenian "liberals".
Read this:
About 3 years ago one of the private TVs in Slovenia started emiting a one hour news program Svet na Kanalu A (World on Kanal A). It was soon among the most popular TV news programs. The editor was from the beginning Bojan Traven. He received a national award Viktor for special achievements in the year 2008. Because:

"... to break unwritten rules, to discover the pulse of people, to introduce different, fresh accession. To tell stories picturesquely, to play with dramarurgy. To introduce a new dynamics into the form. To encoutage others to follow you. To reject the seeming objectivity and to set up clear expression of views. To use the power of media so, that you move, change, to succed in helping "small people"to turn their stories for better ... These are the characteristics and reasons for the success of the project ... Today the news Svet na Kanalu A is recognizable for its own style and it has a wide circle of friendly viewers ... Svet na Kanalu A would not exist without its editor Bojan Traven."

But - in the autumn of 2008 came the election, the government changed. The coalition of left-wing parties took power at the end of the year. Soon it was clear that Svet na Kanalu A would not behave as expected: attacking Janez Jansa, now the leader of the opposition - as Slovenian media used to do for 20 years and more. Instead Svet na Kanalu A continued to be critical to those in power, they exposed the scandals, corruption, clientelism, lies ... inside the ruling left-wing parties and the circle of people connected to them.
Suddenly Bojan Traven became a most hated journalist - hated by the same people who had awarded him with a Viktor the previous year.
A few weeks ago Gregor Golobic, the Minister of Higher Education (philosopher Slavoj Zizek said about him: "He is my best friend! I love him! He is the future Slovene Stalin. He is a man of power. " From The Marx Brother, The New Yorker, 5 May 2003) said in an interview :
"I am talking about a trend, about a tendency, about what is obvious to everybody. Let's look about ourself. What is the role today of some pozars, some reporters, finances, kanalazations (meaning sewage system) media projects? (Pozar report, Reporter, Finance, Kanal A are the few independent media in Slovenia). Who are their bosses? Readers and viewers? So called "small people" whom they like so much to refer to?"
A few days after the interview the editor of Svet na Kanalu A Bojan Traven was fired.
The president of the Association of Journalists of Slovenia Grega Repovz wrote that Svet na Kanalu A is "from the viewpoint of journalism one of the problematic forms of pseudojournalism. It is a kind of populist journalism and if the decision of POP TV (Kanal A is part of POP TV) means that they reject this kind of journalism ... it is a new opportunity for restoring a serious journalism on Svet na Kanalu A and on POP TV in general. Journalists on POP TV demand that the media house cultivate profesional journalism."

Brigitte Alfter - fighter for free press - doesn't want to hear such stories.

Notice 2

2010-04-06T22:10:00.004+02:00

I wanted to submit a comment on the Brigitte Alfter (the fighter for free press -whatever it is) blog. But the comment doesn't appear. So I will write it here.

Free Press

Free investigative journalist Magnus Berglund from Finland created a documentary TV program The Truth about Patria which was emited on Finish public TV YLE on 1 September 2008, 3 weeks before the general election in Slovenia. Immediately after that the program was presented to Slovenian public on Slovenian national TV. Slovenians could see how Magnus Berglund accussed Slovenian prime minister Janez Jansa of taking bribes.
"The Finish state-owned Patria bribed the prime minister of Slovenia" said Magnus Berglund.
Berglund presented no proofs, anyway the political campaign before Slovenian election was ruined. Nobody was talking about political programs any more. The sole theme in media and among people was the "corruption of JJ". The leaders of the opposition left-wing parties and their opinion makers were telling us incessantly about how credible the Finish media were and how Berglund certainly had proofs for his allegations.
Janez Jansa lost the election.
The left-wing parties won. Thus we now have (due to Magnus Berglund) a competent and honest government. See here.
When Slovenia brought a criminal case against Magnus Berglund (Brigitte Alfter wrote about it) the International Press Institute engaged in defence of Magnus Berglund.
Today more then 1 and a half year later it is clear that the accusations of Janez Jansa were lies. Will Magnus Berglund and IPI and Brigitte Alfter appologize to Janez Jansa and to Slovenians?

On the Way from Sabotin to Korada

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Hikers on the mountain ridge. On the other side is the Holy Mountain with magnificent basilica on top.

St. Mary's basilica on the Holy Mountain above the Soca valley.

Hikers above the Soca valley.

Hikers on the mountain ridge.

From Solkan to Kanal

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Entering a cavern.

Cavern.

Excit.

Hikers relaxing on the summit of Sabotin, watching towards Italy.

From Solkan to Kanal

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Solkan with the fountain in the main square.

From Solkan we ascended the Sabotin hill on the nothern side. We walked past the Austrian caverns from the WW I.

Austrian cavern.

Austrian cavern with the passage that leads to the top of Sabotin.

Lower Carniola

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Winter in March.

14 March - and over 50 cm of snow!

Wonderful day.

The walking was very hard - especially for those in the front of line.

Hiking in Lower Carniola

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Winter in March.

Ivy-clad trees in winter.

Break at the St. John the Baptist Church near Muljava in Lower Carniola.

Hiking in Lower Carniola.

Hiking in Upper Carniola

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St. Mark's Church in Vrba.

The house in Vrba where the great Slovene poet France Preseren was born.

The house is turned into a museum.

Inside the house.

Hiking in Upper Carniola

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Village Zirovnica in snow.

Walking in snow.

Spring is near.

Church in Breznica.

Medjumurje, Croatia

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Hikers on Vincek march in Medjimurje, Croatia, 24 Jan 2010.

Over 2000 hikers joined this march. There was music and dance on the way.

Image of Medjimurje in January.

We ended the 15 km long march in the sports hall in Mursko Sredisce, Croatia.

Polhograjski Dolomiti

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Approaching St. Jakob church on top of a hill.

On the summit,806 m.

At the church, built in the 16th century, reconstructed in 1898.

Back in Katarina. Chapel in the village.

Mt. Jeterbenk

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To the summit of Mt. Jeterbenk, 774 m.

On the summit. Jeterbenk got its name after the castle Hartenberg. The castle which stood once on top of the mountain was destroyed in 1511 by an eartquake.

A legend says that Hartenbergs were robber barons.

On the summit.

Mt. Jeterbenk

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On the way to Mt. Jeterbenk in Polhograjski Dolomiti.

Polhograjski Dolomiti are prealpine mountains near Ljubljana.

Ascending Mt. Jeterbenk.

Hiking in winter.

Sarajevo

2010-01-16T23:34:00.002+01:00

Bascarsija.

The Gazi Husrev-Beg Mosque in Bascarsija. It is one of the finest examples of the Ottoman architecture, built in 1530.

Catholic Cathedral, built from 1884 to 1889, at the time when Bosnia was part of Austo-Hungary (1878-1918).

A street from the time of Austro-Hungary.

Bascarsija, Sarajevo

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Bascarsija. The word means "main market" from Turkish words

"bas" (head, main) and "carsi" (bazaar, market).

Bascarsija is located in the old part of Sarajevo.

It was built in the 16th century in the Ottoman Turkish style.

Bascarsija has been the centre of trade for Sarajevo.

Bascarsija, Sarajevo

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It is said that coming to Sarajevo you must

drink water at "cesma" - it was too cold

feed the pigeons - there were none

and eat "cevapcici" - this we did. The best cevapcici in Yugoslavia!

Visegrad

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The famous bridge in Visegrad across the Drina River. It was built at the end of the 16th century by the court architect Sinan on the orders of Grand Vezier Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic.

The writer Ivo Andric (1892-1975) spent his childhood in Visegrad. The picture shows the classroom of the school he attended.

The bridge is a masterpiece of the classical Ottoman period. It is the main "character" in the Andric's novel The Bridge on the Drina.

The common people remember and tell of what they are able to grasp and what they are able to transform into legend. Enything else passes them by without deeper trace, with the dumb indifference of nameless natural phenomena, which do not touch the imagination or remain in the memory. This hard and long building process was for them a foreign task undertaken at another's expense. Only when as the fruit of this effort, the great bridge arose, men began to remember details and to embroider the creation of a real, skillfully built and lasting bridge with fabulous tales which they well knew how to weave and to remember. (Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina)

The Tara National Park

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In the Tara National Park.

Hay stacks in the Tara National Park.

Rainbow.

Picea omorika. It is a rare, local spruce,endemic to the Tara National Park. Picea omorika or Serbian spruce is of major importance in horticulture as an ornamental tree. "Omorika" is a Serbian word for "spruce".

Celebrating New Year 2010

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Entertainment the Serbian way.

At midnight a group of Serbian "trubaci" surprised us.

Happy New Year!

The Mecavnik Hill

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Above Mokra Gora on the hill Mecavnik the film director Emir Kusturica built a wooden village.

The village is called Kustendorf (from the name Kusturica and the German word dorf meaning village).

The wooden church in Kustendorf is dedicated to St. Sava.

It is a turist resort with a restaurant, art gallery, cinema ...

By Train, Old "Ciro"

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This railway station Golubici was built in 2005 for Emir Kusturica's film Life is a Miracle.

Stop at the Golubici station.

View of the Mokra Gora village from the Golubici station.. On the hill is Kusturica's Drvengrad (Wooden Town).

Between Sargan and Mokra Gora the railway is making a path in the shape of number 8, thus the 300 m height difference was surmanted skillfully.
In the picture: view from the train.

The Sargan Eight

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The Sargan Eight is a narrow gauge railway in Serbia, running from the village Mokra Gora to Sargan Vitasi station. We entered the train at the station Jatare.

This railway was an important part of the former narrow gauge main line from Sarajevo to Belgrad. It was closed in 1974.

Between 1999 and 2003 the section over the Sargan pass was rebuilt.

Inside the train.

Mt. Sargan

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Our group on Mt. Sargan.

On Mt. Sargan, W Serbia.

Mt. Sargan.

The people on the left are looking down towards Mokra Gora.

Mt. Sargan

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Old locomotive in Mokra Gora.

Walking on Mt. Sargan.

31 December 2009 on Mt. Sargan.

Mt. Sargan.

Mokra Gora

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We spent the New Year at a railway station.

Happy New Year 2010!

The railway station Mokra Gora , turned into a hotel.

Mokra Gora is today a famous tourist resort.

Valjevo

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A building in the old part of Valjevo - Tesnjar. Tesnjar was the commercial part of town in the old Turkish times, the "carsija".

A restaurant in Tesnjar, Valjevo.

A street in the newer part of Valjevo.

Valjevo's National Museum. The scene in the underground shows Serbian dukes Aleksa Nenadovic and Ilija Bircanin in Turkish jail in 1804 before decapitation.

December in the Streets of Vienna

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A circus horse.

Life in the streets of Vienna.

Before Christmas in Vienna.

In the street in the center of Vienna.

Vienna in December

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Hatter's stall.

Dolls.

Gayly coloured stuff ...

Brat-Kartoffel. Maroni.

Vienna in December

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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukkah" and went to synagogue;

the atheists went to parties and drank.

People passing each other in the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukkah!"

or (to the atheists) "Look out for a wall!" (Dave Barry)

The First Snow-Fall

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The snow had begun in the gloaming,

And busily all the night

Had been heaping field and highway

With a silence deep and white.

Every pine, and fir and hemlock

Wore ermine too dear for an earl,

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree

Was ridged inch deep with pearl. (James R. Lowell)

On the Way to Mt. Javornik

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You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different,

and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?(J. B. Priestley)

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season,

I'll know I'm growing old. (Lady Bird Johnson)

Winter

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On the way to Mt. Javornik.

There is nothing in the world more beautiful than forest clothed to its very hollows in snow.

It is the still ectasy of nature, wherin every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed,

every intricacy of twig , is clade with radiance. (William Sharp)

Winter in Slovenia

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On the way to Mt. Celkov Vrh.

Global warming? It was -18 degrees C, in the morning, 20 December.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. (Author unknown)

Every mile is two in winter. (George Herbert)

Notice I

2009-12-19T00:25:00.005+01:00

My computer has been time and again the target of malicious attacks by computor hackers (I suspect the Slovenian leftists). They have been trying to intimidate me and prevent me from posting. Of course the stuff on the left side of my blog is incensing their rage - not the pretty pictures. I see that at the moment the stuff under Crimes is contaminated. If you are interested what is it look in google: Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes. It is safe.

Mt. Grmada, 898 m

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Ascending.

View from the way to the summit of Mt. Grmada.

View near the summit of Mt. Grmada.

View from Mt. Grmada. The Ljubljana basin in fog.

Along the Slovenian Coast

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View near Strunjan.

The coast in November.

On the coast. The Adriatic sea.

Below a high clif.

Slovenian Coast Fiesa - Strunjan

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Walking along the Slovenian Coast in November.

Autumn colours by the Adriatic sea.

Boat.

Cotinus coggygria. Eurasian smoketree. This bush is native to southern Europe, across central Asia to nothern China. The autumn colours are strikingly varied, from peach and yellow to scarlet.

Fiesa

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Fiesa near Piran.

Fiesa: lake and sea.

Fiesa.

View of the lake in Fiesa.

Piran/Pirano

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Piran

Piran.

On the Slovenian Coast

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Walking by the sea.

Flowers.

Portoroz/Portoroso.

Turist resort Portoroz/Portoroso on a dull November day.

Mt. Murnovec

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On the summit of Mt Murnovec, 1867 m.

Walking on the ridge.

Double happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountains tops are within reach, for the hights that shine there illumine all that lies bellow. (John Muir)

On the summit.

In the Western Karawanken

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View of Villach/Beljak on the Austrian side.

On a saddle.

View of Austria. The town is Villach/Beljak.

Autumn, the year's last loveliest smile. (Willian Cullen Bryant)

Western Karawanken

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On the way to Mt. Murnovec.

This part of the Karawanken ridge borders on Austria in the North and Italy on the West.

Because of the border area it was forbidden to walk here in the time of Yugoslavia.

There are still no marked paths here and no mountain huts.

October in the Karawanken

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October is a symphony of permanence and change. (Bonario W. Overstreet)

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. (Emily Bronte)

I can not endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house.

So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Views from the Srednji Vrh Village

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The Martuljek Group with Mt. Spik (the pyramid in the right).

Mt. Spik.

Two peaks.

The Martuljek Group.

Back at Zdenka's House after Finishing Work in the Vineyard

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Zdenka cooked for us delicious jota ... And there was lots of other food and wine of course ...

I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle

as the most natural and purest expression of the vineyard, ... and of the vintage. (Robert M. Parker)

After a couple of months this will become excelent red wine: Karst teran.

In the Vineyard

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Hail noble fruit - by Homer sung,

Anacreon and Khayyam,

Thy praise is ever on the tongue

Of better men than I am. (Ambrose Bierce)

Bacchus we thank who gave us wine

Which warms the blood within our veins;

That nectar is itself divine. (Pierre Matin)

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? (Cardinal Richeleu)

Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved. (Medieval German saying)

Vintage

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The Smarje village. In the distance Mt. Nanos.

Picking grapes in a vineyard in Smarje.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. (Anacharsis, Scythian philosopher)

Grapes are the most noble and challenging of fruits. (Malcolm Dunn)

Heviz

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Swimming among water lilies.

Heviz.

We ended the trip to Hungary with a cup of coffee

and a piece of Dobos cake.

Heviz

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Statue of empress Maria Theresa of Austria in Heviz.

Heviz Spa.

The curative effect of the lake was probably known to the ancient Romans. Later Germans and Slavs used it.

Heviz

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I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating.

If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life,

I could put up with sausage and mash forever. (Colin Baker)

Badacsony

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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short, but after the heats of July and August,

I am reconciled, like one who had his swing, to the cool of autumn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Vineyards of Badacsony.

Picking Mushrooms in Hungary

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Macrolepiota procera.

Boletus aestivalis.

The Balaton Lake

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If you gave me several million years,

there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty

if it were surrounded by water. (Jan Erik Vold)

The Badacsony Geological-Botanical National Park

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Basalt layers.

When a couple sits on this rock like this one ...

they will stay together forever ...

Once Upon a Time There Was ...

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DDR

Yugoslavia ...

Mushroom

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I am a mushroom; on whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. (John Ford)

Nature alone is antique and the oldest art is mushroom. (Thomas Carlyle)

All mushrooms are edible - once. (Unknown)

In the National Park Badacsony

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Walking ...

between basalt rocks ...

and through forest ...

Hospitable Locals

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This local invited us to taste his wine ...

After a glass of wine ...

Badacsony

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View of the basalt hills in the Badacsony region from Szent Gyorgyhegy.

On top of Szent Gyorgyhegy hill, 415 m.

View of the Badacsony region from Szent Gyorgyhegy.

September Flowers

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Prunus spinosa.

Verbascum phlomoides.

Basalt "organ pipes" on Szent Gyorgyhegy Hill

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View from below.

Basalt "organ pipes".

Bird's eye view.

Szent Gyorgyhegy Hill

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View of the Szent Gyorgyhegy hill with basalt "organ pipes".

Ascending.

The basalt "organ pipes".

Swans in the Balaton Lake

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But calm, white calm,

was born into a swan. (Elizabeth Coatsworth)

The swan, like the soul of the poet,

By the dull world is ill understood. (Heinrich Heine)

The Balaton Lake

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What humbugs we are,

who pretend to live for Beauty,

and never see the Dawn. (Logan P. Smith)

The Balaton Lake

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And gentle winds

and waters near,

make music to the lonely ear. (Byron)

The Balaton Lake

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Toward the Balaton lake.

The Balaton lake at dusk.

The Csobanc Hill

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Paragliding from the Csobanc hill.

On the summit of the Csobanc hill, 334 m.

Paraglider.

Badacsony

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View of the Abrahamhegy hill.

Image of the Badacsony region, known for its basalt hills.

View from the Csobanc hill. In the background the Balaton lake.

Keszthely

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Palace Festetics.

After the rainstorm

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If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm. (Frank Lane)

Back in the valley.

After a storm comes a calm. (Mathew Henry)

Rainstorm in the Mountains

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Towards the saddle.

On the saddle. Rain.

Due to rain we decided to return.

Before a rainstorm

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There are some things

you learn best in calm,

and some in storm. (Willa S. Cater)

High in the Italian Alps

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Magnificent

mountains.

View from the way to Mt. Monte Nabois Grande.

On the Way to Mt. Monte Nabois Grande

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The weather is bad ...

But we are stubborn ..

Mountain peaks in clouds.

Hut Rifugio Luigi Pellarini

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View from the Hut.

Rifugio Luigi Pellarini, 1502 m.

Entering the hut.

The End of the Trail

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Mushrooms in the woods.

In the distance the Drau river.

We ended the trail in this beautiful valley.

The Karawanken

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Clouds and mountains.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value. (George Macauley Trevelyan)

Mt. Vrtaca from the Austrian side. Were we really there a few hours ago?

Climb the Mountains

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and storms their energy,

while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. (John Muir)

At the Klagenfurter Hutte

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View of the Karawanken from the hut on the Austrian side.

Karawanken from the hut.

View from the Klagenfurter Hutte.

On the Way to Klagenfurter Hutte

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The poetry of the earth is never dead. (John Keats)

Below Mt. Geissberg.

Descending to Klagenfurter Hutte.

The Weather Changed

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In wilderness I sense the miracle of life,

and behind it our scientific accomplishments

fade to trivia. (Charles A. Lindbergh)

Wild Flowers in the Karawanken

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The Earth laughs

in flowers. (R. W. Emerson)

What a desolate place would be a world without flowers. (A. J. Balfour)

Entering Austria

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View toward Slovenia. In the middle Lake Bled.

Descending from the pass to the Austrian side.

Crossing the scree.

Mt. Vrtaca

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In the Karawanken.

On the summit of Mt. Vrtaca, 2181 m.

Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "how will I get off?" (Joan Manley)

In the Karawanken

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Walking on the ridge.

View towards Austria.

Is he going to jump?

On the Ridge

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Walking on the ridge. On the left is Austria, on the right Slovenia.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray in , where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. (John Muir)

Franjo in the Karawanken.

To Mt. Vrtaca

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Ascending.

The human spitit needs places where nature has not been rearanged by the hands of man. (Unknown)

Alpine club Celje.

Karawanken

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Mt. Vrtaca.

One may walk over the highest mountains one step at a time. (John Wanamaker)

Karawanken.

To Mt. Vrtaca

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I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature,

which, if we uncousciously yield to it,

will direct us aright. (H. D. Thoreau)

To the Karawanken Mountains

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From the Ljubelj Pass by seat lift

to the Hut on Zelenica.

View of Mt. Vrtaca from the hut.

The Astental Valley

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When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of glory glides away. (S. H. Power Whitman)

Aproaching the Sadnighaus (1880 m), where the bus was waiting for us.

The Astental Valley.

The Astental Valley

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The Astental Valley, 1880 m.

The Astenbach brook.

Thousand have lived without love, not one without water. (W. H. Auden)

Goldberggruppe

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It is still there in heart and soul, the walk, the hills,

the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure - they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in days and years to come. (Edward Abbey)

Descending to the Astental Valley.

In the Goldberg Group Mountains

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Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,

And robes the mountain in its azure hue. (Thomas Campbell)

My God is the God of walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god. (Bruce Chatwin)

If you can find a path with no obstacle, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. (Frank A. Clark)

The Sadnig Scharte Pass

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Snow below the pass.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. (Rachel Carson)

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. (Ruth Westheimer)

To See a World

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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.

Hold infinity in the palms of your hand

and eternity in an hour. (William Blake)