Holleri, hollero: a Südttirol pic spam
It's become a family tradition to spend one week in September in Southern Tyrolia. As it's drawing to a close, here's what's been keeping me from the online world, aka, the place where I've been staying for the last seven days, with more under the cut:
Now if you've been following this journal for longer than a year, you might recall last year's pic spam, and thus also the most romantic of all Southern Tyrolia (which is in Italy, not Austria, for historical reasons) castles, near the village Tirol. Which is my daily sight:
The lower part looks like someone from a fairy tale should reside in it, doesn't it?
This area is apple country, when it isn't wine country. And now is harvest time:
One of the mountain villages is Halfling. Where they breed the horses of the same name:
St. Peter, the non-Roman edition:
St. Kathrein:
I love the local idea of a bus stop:
Covered bridges:
But really, you don't want to stay down in the valley where there are roads. You want to go up the mountain paths, starting with the so called Waal paths. A Waal isn't a whale, it's the local water system, which occasionally looks very pretty:
occasionally, you meet a random goat or two:
View from a Waalweg:
The village Schlanders in the Vinschgau, also seen from a Waalweg:
The Vinschgau itself is truly something:
High above the Vinschgau is the castle Juval.
Where the world's most famous mountaineer resides, who happened to be at home when the APs and I were wandering by:
(Reinhold Messner, if you're not up on your mountaineers.)
In addition to medieval castles currently owned by mountaineers, we visited palaces formerly used by empresses. This is Schloß Trautmannsdorf, for its awesome gardens:
You can also go much higher than the Waal paths and get to the top. Even if it's a bit cloudy now and then. View from the top of the mountains - the Hirzer mountain, to be precise:
How the Etsch valley around Meran looks on a cloudy day from above:
Never mind the clouds, though, there were lamas!
I mean:
And with this adorableness, I leave you to spend my last day in Southern Tyrolia!
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1015878.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.
Now if you've been following this journal for longer than a year, you might recall last year's pic spam, and thus also the most romantic of all Southern Tyrolia (which is in Italy, not Austria, for historical reasons) castles, near the village Tirol. Which is my daily sight:
The lower part looks like someone from a fairy tale should reside in it, doesn't it?
This area is apple country, when it isn't wine country. And now is harvest time:
One of the mountain villages is Halfling. Where they breed the horses of the same name:
St. Peter, the non-Roman edition:
St. Kathrein:
I love the local idea of a bus stop:
Covered bridges:
But really, you don't want to stay down in the valley where there are roads. You want to go up the mountain paths, starting with the so called Waal paths. A Waal isn't a whale, it's the local water system, which occasionally looks very pretty:
occasionally, you meet a random goat or two:
View from a Waalweg:
The village Schlanders in the Vinschgau, also seen from a Waalweg:
The Vinschgau itself is truly something:
High above the Vinschgau is the castle Juval.
Where the world's most famous mountaineer resides, who happened to be at home when the APs and I were wandering by:
(Reinhold Messner, if you're not up on your mountaineers.)
In addition to medieval castles currently owned by mountaineers, we visited palaces formerly used by empresses. This is Schloß Trautmannsdorf, for its awesome gardens:
You can also go much higher than the Waal paths and get to the top. Even if it's a bit cloudy now and then. View from the top of the mountains - the Hirzer mountain, to be precise:
How the Etsch valley around Meran looks on a cloudy day from above:
Never mind the clouds, though, there were lamas!
I mean:
And with this adorableness, I leave you to spend my last day in Southern Tyrolia!
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1015878.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.