After the little accident with our navigation system, we were on the way through Bavaria when we stopped at the lovely town of Oberammergau. Oberammergau is famous for its “Lüftlmalerei”, frescoes of traditional Bavarian themes, fairy tales, religious scenes or architectural trompe-l’œil (= deceive the eye – a technique to create the optical illusion of …
DANGER: pairing your phone with the original Mercedes car radio could cause the suicide of the Mercedes device! After trying to connect my phone via Bluetooth to the Mercedes device, the radio/navigation stopped on one of the user interfaces and did not accept any input. Even all hardware buttons were out of function. In the …
On one of the hottest days in August, we decided to go to Hungary for off-road biking and to go for super moto on a racetrack in Austria near Vienna the next day. Very good Monty, rear and front braking into the left-hander … Our aim was to improve cornering skills, because cornering is always …
“Never go hiking in the mountains unprepared” – that was what we learned again! on this hike. We had started at the skiing area of Kope near Slovenj Gradec. (46.502399 15.2102 – also here is an official camper parking on top of the mountains) A lovely hike leads over the Pohorje Hills with views to …
From the skiing area at the Rogla a lovely hike starts, which leads to a moor and some dark lakes which had a special surprise for us. The route took us over grassland and through light forest, where a lot of blueberries where ready to be picked – and eaten 😉 Ripe blueberries Planks leading …
Finally time to visit Slovenia! We came from Austria and headed first to Maribor, which was not far from the border. The Liberation Monument commemorates the nearly 700 hostages and rebels who were killed by German forces during the National Liberation War (WWII) for attempting to resist occupation. Glavni Trg This column was built in …
Our little oven has already served us well many times. Now it was time to try some cakes. I don’t have a baking sheet but 2 little pans, which turned out to by quite good for making cakes. For the red current cake, I used both of them but had to bake one after the …
Another short escape from Vienna lead as again to the region of the “Wiener Hausberge”. We had planned to climb through the Weichtalklamm – a canyon starting in the Höllental which separates the Rax from the Schneeberg, but this route was closed for forest works. Türkenbund-Lilie – Turk’s cap lily We decided to climb the …
As a vegetarian, to toss some veggies into a pan is my favourite food. Depending on what the fridge has to offer and what spices I pick, every time a different dish is created. This time some carrots, a pointy cabbage and some potatoes from the day before made it into the big pan of …
As we had removed the trailer hitch because we did not need it in normal travelling, we had also lost the rear tow hook. Therefore, we needed a simple solution for recovery situations. In our workshop, we found the original hook for the steel rope of our WARN winch, which is not in use because …
