A break from the noise and chaos of everyday life, allowing one to enjoy the serenity of nature in peace and on your own.




The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Take a Hike
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A break from the noise and chaos of everyday life, allowing one to enjoy the serenity of nature in peace and on your own.




The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Take a Hike
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That’s a house in the town centre of Bad Tölz. Like most houses here it is beautifully maintained. It has a cute little dormer, the windows are set-off by paintings and it has painted and raised stone panels running up the facade. Looking up reveals a painted, maybe even tiled border in the overhang of the roof. The difficulty in photographing a house like this is caused by the narrow streets which makes it difficult to get a shot of of the whole house. Furthermore, being in a group and not being able to really set up a shot results in cut off corners and weird angles. But here it is.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: View from Below (High Angle)
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After showing the elegant windows with painted or raised frames seen in the town centre of Bad Tölz, here are a few windows confirming more with the cliché of Bavarian windows. Monday Window
More windows from the town of Bad Tölz in Bavaria. This time with raised and colour contrasting frames. Monday Window
Wordless Wednesday
I wrote last week that Bavarian window seem to be all about shutters but that seems not to hold true for downtown Bad Tölz. I saw a lot of painted window frames. The blueish grey house has the inscription Bader, i.e. barber-surgeon; the cream coloured … Continue reading Painted Window Frames
I spent last weekend in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, in the town of Bad Tölz. On our walk up to the Kalvarienberg my camera battery gave up (and my spare was back at the hostel) and I had to resort to using my … Continue reading The Joy of Living
Admittedly this was last weekend’s sky but it was more or less the last sky I saw since then having been holed up in our apartment to nurse the stinking cold I brought back from that glorious weekend. Weekend Sky
You can see the Bavarian crest with the white and blue diamonds on top of the door which tells you it’s an official department, the land surveying office of the state of Bavaria, the branch in Bad Tölz which is about 60km south of Munich. … Continue reading The Vermessungsamt in Bad Tölz