Archive for August, 2010

Cochem, Germany

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Time for number four in my series of posts about my holiday in Germany.

These photos were made in the city Cochem. This is a rather old city (dating back to 1051) with quite a lot of older buildings such as the monastery and the castle.
Besides that Cochem also has the most beautiful view on the river Moselle there is.
All this together makes Cochem a very nice city and a very good photo location.

We’ve been to several of the key points in Cochem such as the castle and the lookout point at which you have the best view of the Moselle.

 – Castle of Cochem – Castle of Cochem
– Castle of Cochem
 – Moselle, Cochem, Germany – Moselle, Cochem, Germany
– Moselle, Cochem, Germany
 – Ruins in Cochem – Ruins in Cochem
– Ruins in Cochem
 – Cochem, Germany – Cochem, Germany
– Cochem, Germany
 – Cochem, Germany – Cochem, Germany
– Cochem, Germany
 – Moselle, Cochem, Germany – Moselle, Cochem, Germany
– Moselle, Cochem, Germany
 – Moselle, Cochem, Germany – Moselle, Cochem, Germany
– Moselle, Cochem, Germany
 – Moselle, Cochem, Germany – Moselle, Cochem, Germany
– Moselle, Cochem, Germany
 – Cochem train station – Cochem train station
– Cochem train station
 – Statue in Cochem – Statue in Cochem
– Statue in Cochem
 – Castle of Cochem – Castle of Cochem
– Castle of Cochem
 – Castle of Cochem – Castle of Cochem
– Castle of Cochem


Wild- & erlebnispark Daun

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

In this third post about my holidays I would like to show you several photos I made during our trip to a wild-park in Daun.
This wild-park consists of a monkey valley, an 8 km long safari ride, a falkner show and a playground. We did not go to the playground but we did go to the other options.

Of the monkey valley I do not have a lot of good photos as there were a lot of trees and not very much light. This resulted in a bad quality on most of my photos, though I did manage to make a very cute one.

The safari went a lot better as there were more open spaces. There were loads of different animals like lamas, goats, donkeys, deers and wild boars.
The wild boars were especially fun as they had tons of piglets running around which is a very fun sight.

The falkner show was not extremely special though it did give me some nice photos of an eagle owl.

 – Baby monkey eating – Baby monkey eating
– Baby monkey eating
 – Goat – Goat
– Goat
 – Goat – Goat
– Goat
 – Deer herd – Deer herd
– Deer herd
 – Wild boar – Wild boar
– Wild boar
 – Wild boar piglets – Wild boar piglets
– Wild boar piglets
 – Wild boar piglets – Wild boar piglets
– Wild boar piglets
 – Eagle-owl – Eagle-owl
– Eagle-owl
 – Eagle-owl taking flight – Eagle-owl taking flight
– Eagle-owl taking flight
 – Eagle-owl in flight – Eagle-owl in flight
– Eagle-owl in flight
 – Eagle-owl – Eagle-owl
– Eagle-owl
 – Falconer – Falconer
– Falconer


Germany – Vulkaneifel

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

This is the second in a short series of posts in which I will show you some photos of Germany which I made during the holidays.

As I told you in my previous post I went to Germany for the holidays. I went there with a bunch of friends.
We had loads of fun doing all kinds of things. We’ve ‘hiked’ through nature, we’ve done ‘safaris’ in wild-parks, we’ve visited towns and cities and we got lost in the woods in the middle of the night.
Now I’m not going to bore you with all of the stories (although that last one was rather funny) but I will show you some of the pictures I made during some of these trips.

The lodging we lived in during our vacation was located in the Vulkaneifel, a very beautiful, inactive volcano area in Germany.
Volcano soil is very fertile so everything grows well which results in a lot of vegetation. The dead volcano craters are usually filled with water. These volcano lakes are really beautiful as the water is very blue and there’s usually a lot of trees and other vegetation around them which makes for nice pictures.
Also, apart from the craters, there are quite a lot of mountains on which you have a brilliant view.

These pictures were all made around a group of 3 of these volcano lakes.

 – Vulkaneifel, Germany – Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Vulkaneifel, Germany – Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Weinfelder Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany – Weinfelder Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Weinfelder Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Weinfelder Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany – Weinfelder Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Weinfelder Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Vulkaneifel, Germany – Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Vulkaneifel, Germany – Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Vulkaneifel, Germany – Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Gemündener Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany – Gemündener Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Gemündener Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Gemündener Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany – Gemündener Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Gemündener Maar, Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Vulkaneifel, Germany – Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Vulkaneifel, Germany
 – Vulkaneifel, Germany – Vulkaneifel, Germany
– Vulkaneifel, Germany


Germany – Summer 2010

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Summer vacation is over. This means, of course, that I have a lot of new photos of which I’d like to post a few.
Because I’ve made quite a lot of photos I’m going to split them up in a few different posts of which this is the first.
I’m going to try to post the next one tomorrow.

This first post will contain just a few random photo’s of things we did or saw in Germany, the other posts will be a little more specific.

 – Beehive – Beehive
– Beehive
 – Kite flying – Kite flying
– Kite flying
 – Kite flying – Kite flying
– Kite flying
 – Kite flying – Kite flying
– Kite flying
 – Kite flying – Kite flying
– Kite flying
 – German flag – German flag
– German flag
 – Dog – Dog
– Dog