blade night munich

what a nice way to spent time with friends! bladenight munich ... every monday evening at 9 p.m. through all summer ... of course, just when it is not a rainy day ... 

the starting point of the blade night close to the oktoberfest area

skaters on the road ...

the bar + party ship alte utting in münchen-sendling

this was our the start of our june round ... 

...

there is an another buddy of me, too: the green mars monster 😁

.... more coming soon or never 😉

lake waldschwaigsee ~ karlsfeld bei münchen

what a nice afternoon with children at the quarry pond (baggersee) waldschwaigsee between langwied and karlsfeld 😊 it is a quite quiet place with no playground for children, no beach volley area, no barbecue area ... and there is just a small kiosk with a really limited selection of food ... anyway. it is a nice place to go close to the 3 crowded langwieder lakes, too. btw, the parking place in the langwieder street is still for free and even at a hot weekend day like today not overcrowded. 

i was not completely sure what does 'schwaige' mean and thought it could be s.th. with water. well, i've asked AI and look what they answered: Der Waldschwaigsee bei Karlsfeld verdankt seinen Namen einer früher dort bestehenden Waldschwaige, also einem Gehöft mit Viehhaltung am Waldrand. 😄

the shallow water bay called schweinebucht (swine bay)

lawn for sunbathing

there were not many shadow places, if you asked me

there is a small island inside the lake (on the left side) 🐋

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paulinum ~ walking back in time

how crazy is that? three of us met some 30+ years after we left our student dorm paulinum again just to visit our old well known places 😀~ the LMU university, the surrounding streets, the nearby bars + restaurants which changed most over the time ... our student home still exists and functions as a refugee accommodation awaiting massive reconstruction today.

one of the back entries to the LMU university

 = ludwig-maximilians-universität in munich

like a student again ...

audimax, auditorium maximum, the biggest lecture hall at the LMU

paulinum, our old students home, rambergstr. 6, close

 to the LMU university witnessed better times before ⏰

3 of us 🍀😊🍀

the bavarian atzinger guesthouse close to the LMU university

 could keep its student character over the years 🍻🍻🍻

highly NOT recommended aka do not visit the place where my munich pictures are stored. it is my still growing 'walking in munich album' with 1,000+ pictures. the sheer number of pictures + years covered would make you feel sick 😱

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pressburg aka bratislava, SK

my next visit to pressburg (= bratislava, the capital of slovakia / slovensko / slowakei / SK) was quite a short one. the main reason was to visit my father, which is getting older and thx goodness he is still robust, optimistic and fine 😀

bratislava castle, SK

bratislava, slovakia, SK

not the best weather out there, is it? ☁

... improving 😀

seabuckthorn (= sanddorn = rakytnik) is sour, very rich

 on vitamin C and a nice tree in a garden as well 😉

slavin, monument for the fallen soviet soldiers in WW II

liberated from the nazis by the soviet army ... 

the dukla pass in the eastern SK ~ 06.10.1944

my home town kosice / kassa / kaschau ~ 20.01.1945

bratislava 04.04.1945 (april) ... berlin 08.05.1945 (may)

vienna (wien) - marx - edberg, austria, AT

vienna

on the road in austria, AT

what a nice colors in austria 😉

on the road in austria, AT - lake mondsee

the DE-AT border in (hitler's) braunau, austria, AT

on the road in bavaria, germany, DE

as i've not made many pictures this time, so there is no new album => i've just reused my last SK album from march-2025 😇

braunau am inn, austria, AT

after the highway from the german side was drawn from munich almost to the austrian border at the inn river at braunau few years ago, i usually use this shortest way to pressburg, slovakia even if there is a huge part from the austrian side without a highway. and yes, especially the border control at braunau is faster than the border control when coming back from SK + AT to DE via salzburg

yesterday i just wanted to look up few old pictures abt braunau, but i couldnt find that pictures i was thinking of ... well, i've had to go back in time and found a trace about our short trip for dinner in braunau at our way back from all hollows in slovakia in november 2022.  .,,,  so i've uploaded the braunau pictures from november, 2nd 2022 today😄

enjoy few views of (hitler's birth city) braunau am inn in austria (AT) below. well, i remember a yellow picture from his birth house with a huge stone from the concentration camp mauthausen in front of it my parents made some 30 years ago. i'm not going to search for it in my albums with paper photographs before the digital era begun ... as far as i know his birth house was later destroyed and the rock removed in order not to support any kind of nazi tourism. if interested, you'll find such pictures on the internet if you asked me ...

braunau, june 2020 as seen from simbach, DE

the inn river is the DE-AT border, june 2020

casino + bordello + petrol station = the new DE-AT-border

border crossing today, july 24th, 2025

my favorite petrol station jet in braunau, march 2025

the very city center braunau, österreich, AT

braunau, november 2022

at the 1st floor is the historical restaurant we went to

braunau am inn, city center, november 2022

gasthaus zum schiff ~ braunau, november 2022

lets cross the inn river for good ...

few more pictures here.