Alpstrudelfall, Walderlebniszentrum & other random photos

Mountain range on night of Perseid shower (above)


Here are some random photos that I either neglected to add, or that didn't warrant an entire new post.

All is well and I expect to have some new adventures over the next few weeks, during my break from school. This week I have to bust ass to finish up so I can finally get some relief from all the homework. Naturally, I will have to practice during break, because all of the assignments make that impossible now. But I knew what I was signing up for, and I kind of enjoy it.



The Altstadt one drunken night:



Hector:


Galgenbichl is where they used to hang people in the old days. There's a big hill surrounded by woods and meadows and it's right in the middle of town:

You can see a spiderweb if you look carefully:











Some people gathered in the courtyard of the Hohes Schloß for a tour:


The following photos were from a bike ride I took toward Hopfensee during a sun shower. It was probably the best ride I took all year simply because of the weather, the view, the vibe, the rainbow:







These were taken at the Walderlebniszentrum, which means roughly "forest enjoyment center":



I know this sounds crazy, but I have a recurring dream where I'm walking/running down a wood plank path just like this one. Spooky:







These are from a graffiti exhibit at the Kunsthallen am Lech, which is an old factory cum artists' residence and gallery:




A hike to Alpstrudelfall in Austria:





Random moon/castle shots from my balcony:








A very early sunrise (around 3:45am):


That's all for now. See you next week!

Finally Settled

At last! My new place is feeling lived-in, I've got adapters for most of my stuff so I finally have a proper stereo set up and I feel really comfortable here. Not much new going on, just studying and trying to enjoy summer before it's gone. I went for a long bike ride on Sunday to a nearby town called Pfronten. It's only 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) away but they have a totally different dialect there. Speaking of the language, I've been working on that, too. It's really hard but I just keep working at it.
Today I went for a ride to Austria, which was cool. All this time, I thought the bike path ended by the world's biggest wheelbarrow (which we are the proud owners of), but it continues on. That's great because for one thing, it's the easiest way to get to Austria and for another thing, cigarettes are cheaper there and they have 20 in a pack, as opposed to 17 per pack here.
I finally saw a squirrel today! I was starting to think they didn't have any down here. It was cute and brown and had big ears. But there aren't any fireflies, which I just thought about yesterday. And no racoons.
Speaking of stuff I didn't think they had around here...there was a torso found in the woods last Sunday. Thankfully they found the guy and it wasn't some random freak. He killed his girlfriend. Horrible.

I hate to end on that note, but I can't think of anything else new that's going on around here.


This is what I see when I'm sitting at my desk.


Here's the Säuling (the highest peak in the region)



Panorama from my new balcony:

Here's the view from my old apartment. We often get this phenomenon here; clouds to the south and sun to the north.
A rainbow during a storm a few weeks ago: