Treffen Herbert 03.03.2018

Trip to Italy and France September - October 2014

On September 15th I drove down to Italy because we had a gathering at a friends house in Tuscany.

On my way to Tuscany a had a stop over at Lago di Garda in Torri del Benaco and stayed at the lovely Hotel Gardesana.

My room at the corner with a nice balcony 

 Visit to the Castello Scaligero

 Lemon plantation in the Castello. This region is famous for its Lemon plantations

 View

 Old oil mill

 Great views

View to Hotel Gardesana

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Piazza in Torri

Swans

Young swan sleeping

View from the restaurant terrace

My dinner. Unfortunately it looks better than it tasted.

In Germany we say "if the food is too salty the cook is in love". In this case everything had a kind of a bitter taste. I have no idea what that means about the cooks mental state !!??

Had a last drink on my wonderful terrace before I went to bed.

Next morning I went off to Tuscany and after a 4 hour drive I arrived in "LeMura"

Had a nice luncheon with Uschi and Michael

 La Contessa di LeMura = Uschi

Beautiful estate

 View to Monticiano

Finally all the others arrived. Here you can see Tommy and Michael

Pizza oven

Lovely Claudia

 Living room

The barn

Bathroom

Summer kitchen

Chestnuts house

Still life

 Winter kitchen

Frank and Tommy playing boule

After a three days stay with my friends I went off to the South of France

I had a very pleasant trip to Biot and arrived in the early afternoon

Balou was also very happy to have me back again

 Next day I went to Théoule Sur Mer to visit a friend at Port la Galère

We had a nice lunch at the club

Went to meet Anna-Maj the other day in Biot

Her cute doggy, he loves to eat  Foie Gras

We had dinner that evening at the wonderful new restaurant in Biot called Le Jardin Du Mas 

Le Chat

My friend Ingrid showed me her new paintings that she had made in the last few months

After spending 10 days in France I went back to Munich with a two day stop over in Alto Adige

I stayed at Hotel Panorama in Tirol

There is a chairlift that belongs to the hotel - for free use for the hotel guests and it leads you directly in the the heart of the old town of Merano

Enormous plums. I have never seen anything like it

South Tyrol has many remarkable architects and I love the perfect combination of the old and the new

 Patio

Shopping Arcade

View into an entrance of a tenement

View into a restaurant

Promenade in Merano

Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Women´s museum in Meran

Landesfürstliche Burg - Prince's Castle museum

Next day I drove back to Munich and had a short stop over to visit some friends in Hall in Tyrol

Entrance hall to one of the old town houses

We where kindly invited to look at some more.....

A View to some of the flats of this Estate

Used to be the old chappel of the house

Details

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