Saturday, May 30, 2009

Whitsun vacation (2): Seaside

Part 2 of the short adventures in Mecklenburg was a visit at the sea. We took the old railway "Molli" from Kühlungsborn to Heiligendamm and walked back at the beach.

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Whitsun vacation (1): Safari

Astrid and me have two weeks whitsun vacation. Except a short visit in Mecklenburg we decided to stay at home for most of the time and care about our home and horses.

But even if it was a short visit, we had a lot of adventures on the way. Part 1 was a safari trip which our Volvo luckily survived without any harm, even the monkeys tried everything to take it apart.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Horse & Run

This weekend was full of sportive events. Saturday Astrid had a dressage tournament in Michelstadt and because Ray was ill we put Andor in the trailer and he had to run his first tournament.

What to say, Astrid and Andor did a great job and became second. It couldn´t have been better.

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Sunday I went to Frankfurt for the skyrun on top of the Messeturm. 61 storeys, 1344 stairs in 8:29 min. I was satisfied, 52 seconds faster than in 2007. I´m looking forward to more stair running.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

My Cousins Wedding

Anike and Christian got married in Ratzeburg, a small scenic town on the border between Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein. He is the first of my uncles six sons to get married, so some more weddings will follow :)

See Astrid and me in front of the Ratzeburg cathedral...

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...and my family on the wedding party.

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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Horses & Horses

Friday was public holiday in Germany. Nontheless it was very early (for my taste) when we drove to the new stables in Straßenheim to load Ray for a dressage tournament in Heidelberg.

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No money this time - ;) - but still we were very satisfied with the overall performance.

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After the tournament we went directly back to Straßenheim and took the chance to get some new photos of Andor. He is learning and evolving much to our joy.

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And he seems to like the new surroundings in the stable with many other Haflinger comrades and lots of fresh hay and straw.

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The other 3 girls that have moved with us to the new stables were also riding at the same time so we assembled the parade for a photo.

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Odenwald Hike with Christian and Imke

The Odenwald is a small mountain range just 20 km away from Mannheim. We went the Neckar valley upstream passing Heidelberg driving to Neckargerach for a small morning hike with Christian and Imke.

Starting in the small town we followed the river for a while before hiking in the meadows and forest of the Odenwald.

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On the way back to the Neckar valley we followed down the Margarethen gorge which offers a lot of cascading waterfalls. It is quite steep and luckily the weather was dry and sunny, otherwise this would have been a slippery path.

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The view was astonishing when we finally came out of the gorge and had "our" river back. The village on the photo is Guttenbach.

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Unfortunately I missed the photo of all 4 of us on the bench. Mine is far too overexposed. I should finish the photo book before playing around with my Nikon D90.