2011 Holiday - Part 3

Ok, next batch of holiday pictures have been processed and uploaded. I think the most beautiful picture of the whole holiday (photographically that is:-)) is in this batch. I'll put the link to it at the end of this post (so do keep on reading till the end!!) ....

Obviously being in the mountains in summer means going up to do some walking. With a so called 'Summer Karte' (summer card?) provided for free by Haus Lanka (In case you'd want to go and have a look yourself where these photos were made: HAUS LANKA, SCHLADMING).

With that summer card all cable trollies are free:



First day we went up the Planais mountain (1800m above sea level). Some nice views (and flowers):



Some people go back down to the valley differently (again, not us:-)):



The first half of the way down, from:

to:

we did 'the hard' way (:-):



Back down in the valley (second half down we did take the cable trolley:-)), they were still working hard on the building project for the World Championship of Skiing. To be noted, we have been told actual building work is basically only possible for 6 months (as soon as the winter starts getting near, it gets too cold to do concrete works):



Back in time to relax a bit on the balcony with this view:



THE NEXT DAY
The next day we met up with friends (Peter, Inge and Matthijs) who happened to be on holiday in the same valley (not knowing from each other we would...:-)). We went out on another nice walk to the Giglachsee. First had to drive a bit (with some hearpin turns) to get to the starting point:



Here is an impression of the walk:




Did I say it was mostly UPHILL on the way to the see?:





To end up at the Giglachseehuutte:



with a view of the see:



Oh and on the way we also noted some local (?) 'wildlife':



And on this bombshell we end this part of the holiday story... More soon!!
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PHOTOS OF THIS BATCH

Oh wait.. I was going to put the best photo of the holiday here ... well, here it is:



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Wild Flowers - Kings Park

Although not a holiday title for this post, it was still sort of holiday. One of the last days before going back to work we went to Kings Park to see if we could shoot some nice pictures of some flowers. Given it was the start of the wild flower season (ever heard of the flower Kangaroo paw??).
In the more outback area's you would find millions (or more) wildflowers this time of the year. But for a nice peak at some you can have a look at Kings Park....

For example, the Kangaroo Paw:



Although not millions in Kings Park, in the wild you'd see something like this in millions:



One of those flowers in more detail (including some local wild life:-)):



For more photos, LOOK HERE.

Oh, and more holiday photos will follow soon:-))
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Floorshow Jack & Joanne

In between processing the holiday pictures, I also made some pictures of Jack & Joanne. They are one of the most talented young dancers in WA (if not Australia):



Find all photos HERE.

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2011 Holiday - Part 2

(As always, some photos are linked in this post, but if you want to see all photos LOOK HERE)

A coupe other highlights were meeting up with Ellen's old rowing group whilst enjoying a pancake in Lage Vuursche:



Catching up with old friends (and their cat:-))



And then it was time to get in the car and drive to Austria (almost 1000km away):



Nearing the end of the drive, finally the Austrian mountains start showing up:



And then finally:



View from our room:



Some people go to Austria in summer to do some walking (like us), some go there do some stuff like this (NOT US:-)):



And finally a 'full view' from our room:




(As always, some photos are linked in this post, but if you want to see all photos LOOK HERE)
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2011 Holiday - Part 1

And yes, here is the first photo-report of our little (or not so little:-)) trip to Holland and Austria. The first night we stayed at a hotel in Noordwijk (reasonably close to Schiphol, to 'recover' from the trip.

This was the view from our room:


Besides obvious highlights of catching up with family and friends, there were two special highlights...

One the 'Blessen' reunion, were we caught up with not only known family (like cousins), but also with a number of family members never seen before (great uncles). See the previous post for some info on that (although that is in Dutch!).

Then another highlight (especially for Ellen:-), was learning how to make a 'chipolata' cake herself. At our friends place where we stayed, Peter (the friend, not me:-)) used to be a 'banketbakker' (confectioner). Oh and not only chipolata, lots of other trade secrets were disclosed!



Besides the hightlights it was also great to visit Den Bosch:


More photos to be found here. Of course when more photos become available they will be added to that set, but also will I add new posts here .....

Reunie (sorry, Dutch only:-))

En ja hoor, eindelijk heeft ie dan zijn fotos van de reunie klaar ... Ze zijn te vinden op mijn gebruikelijke fotosite, als een aparte set fotos. Ik hoop dat je (sommige van) de fotos leuk vindt:-).

Ondertussen begin ik ook aan de (andere) vakantie foto's, dus die zou je binnen niet al te veel tijd ook op onze weblog moeten kunnen verwachten .....

'Zie' je binnenkort weer!!