young seagull posing After spending the night at the parking directly in front of the ferry, we took the one leaving from Dunkirk at 8am. Entering the ferry at Dunkirk Leaving Dunkirk We arrived at Dover shortly after 9am (British time) and drove straight up to the castle, which didn’t open before 10 am, even …
In the afternoon, we left Berlin and drove to a camping on the channel which connects the Spree river with the Havel river (City Camping Süd). We parked directly at the channel and put our chairs out. While enjoying the sun and the woods around us, we could watch the boats traveling the channel. now, …
We all like to take pictures of special moments and things we discover. Since our telephones are more a camera than a communication device some of us capture all their lives and sometimes wonder why we never look at this pictures again. Thorsten von Overgaard with his Leica captured with Pentax K1 85mm prime f1,2 On …
From Vienna we took the highway to Germany and then up to Berlin. We stopped in Selb, close to the Czech border, for the night and reached Berlin the next afternoon. Berlin, Brandenburger Tor We chose a place from Park4Night close to the Tempelhofer Feld in Oder Strasse for our first night (52.468754, 13.420599). It …
Through the internet we found out about a Musik Fest so we drove to Hollabrunn, north east of Vienna and a little further, until we reached the villages of Grabern. In 5 different villages one or more little stages were set up and bands of many different music genres played for one hour, half an …
Our son had a friend from Belgium coming over for the Red Bull Air Race in Austria, Wiener Neustadt. We decided to join them and in the end we were a party of 8 going there on Saturday. We arrived with the caravan and were led to a special area on the parking, where we …
Sunrise Mount Ötscher paddock Before we could go to the Ötscher for the Enduro competition, we had to be in Hartberg (Styria) for some business. We stayed at the camp ground in Hartberg, from where it was a short walk into the center. Hartberg was founded in the 12th century, but there are remains of …
As I described in one of the last posts, I’m a licensed ham radio operator. So I’m interested in all types of ham radio activities. Very popular is “contesting”, which means to attend a competition. In a given time (e.g. 24 hours) and frequency range you need to make as many 2 way communications as …
Kaprun, snow in August!! After staying at a perfect caravan spot at Gasthof Friedburg, Edi used the morning for ham radio communication while Cordy climbed to the remains of a castle. When we left, we wanted a closer look at the mighty Krimmler Waterfall, which we had passed when driving from Tyrol into Salzburg via …
As Edi is a licensed ham radio operator, he is allowed to use radio communication equipment to perform radio contacts world wide. This means, he can talk to people all across Europe, or to all other continents just using 100 Watt of power, the right radio and antenna. Märket Reef Finnland , Oj0C most wanted …
