Another quick trip, this time to the Bernese Oberland with Saanen, Gstaad and Gsteig.
View from the hotel towards Saanen Airport and waterfalls on a hiking loop near Gsteig.
From Davos, a famous passage of the Rhaetian Railway leads across the Wiesen viaduct, part of the Davos–Filisur railway section. A practical footpath leads alongside the viaduct to the other side of the Landwasser gorge so hikers can use the viaduct, too, and enjoy the better view from across the gorge.
Parsenn bike loop combos, partially riding uphill, partially profiting from the cog wheel shuttle all the way up to Jakobshorn.
Mixed weather and mixed opportunities during COVID still enabled a trip up to Chörbschhorn, a nice bike loop trail that does not involve any public transport. Next day, the ambiguous weather forecast meant not too many tourists on the historic train to Wiesen viaduct.
The castles of Brühl are part of the UNESCO world heritage. A quick summer walk in the park before another thunderstom passed above.
Spent an evening with two tripods and the intention to create a series of time lapses of the sunset near the Cologne cathedral and Severins bridge across the Rhine. Here a few stills.
The area has a few very good car enthusiast spots to offer, not least the Classic Car Remise in Düsseldorf, also architectonically a very nice place. And I could see myself owning a bit of car space there to store a few gems.
Later, I had to return the Porsche only to pick up an EV, an all-electric Jaguar that would prove very fun to drive but very challenging to arrive at destinations in. More to come…
One of the few summer pleasures took me to Northrhine-Westphalia to UNESCO world heritage site Zeche Zollverein. It happened to be in a red small Porsche.
Months after my last trip and as Corona cases reached a low in 2020, I felt ready for a trip and spent an extended weekend in Northrhine-Westphalia around Dusseldorf and Cologne. City, Coal mining and here, landscapes.
Bike trip via Wisen and Wisner Flue, a prominent limestone outcrop above the village of Wisen, to Challhöchi, where the best sunsets can be observed in the region.
