Dusseldorf: City and exhibition "BOOT 2011"

The famous shopping street "Koenigsallee" on a cold sunday morning:

The water front of the Rhine. View to the "Rhinetower" and "Rheinbruecke":

"Schlossturm" next to the Rhine. Inside the tower there is the museum of navigation:

"Jan-Wellem-Denkmal" and townhall of Dusseldorf:

Many people, a lot of exhibitors and hundreds of boats or other things for watersports at the exhibition "BOOT 2011":

Pitztal - Austria

Skiarea "Rifflsee"in "Pitztal" (Tyrol): view to the chairlift "Grubenkopf".

 

Snugly "Alm" seen and tested on the downhill to the valley station:

Snow and sun and a lot of fun at the "Pitztaler Gletscher":

The highest point of the Skiarea "Pitztaler Gletscher". On days like this you have a fantastic view form the peak of the "Hinterer Brunnenkogel" (3440 m).

Guadeloupe

"La Guadeloupe" is situated in the Caribbean. You can find there everything for a fantastic holiday.


"l`arbre du voyageur"

The east end of Guadeloupe "Pointe des Châteux". The picture shows "Pointe des Colibris" and in the background there is the island "La Desirade".

In Guadeloupe there are a lot of beautiful flowers and orchidaceous like the "Balisier rouge".

Nearly every sunset is more spectacularly than the last one.

 Thousands of colourful corals, plants and fishes seen near "Plage de Malendure".

Wonderful beaches like this near "Pointe Allègre" in " Basse-Terre".

Paris in 3 hours

For a stopover for only three hours in Paris you have to choose the places of interests carefully. The church of "Notre Dame" is one of these famous places you have to visit on your trip to Paris. Furthermore "l`hôtel de ville" is a very nice place to visit and of course you have to pass "la Seine" (even nice with a lot of brown water). At the end of your trip it is obligatory to consume a coffee in one of these lots of "cafés".

Oslo in december

The City of Oslo is well worth seeing, even in december.
Radhuset: City Hall of Oslo. Known because of the yearly award of the Nobel Peace Price.

The "Frammuseet" is dedicaded to Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen and Otto Sverdrup. The star turn is the ship "Fram" which was designed for the polar expedition of Nansen in 1892.

In the "Kon-Tiki museet" you can see the papyrusboat "Ra II".

Winter atmosphere in "Oslo Fjord":

A funny "Troll" seen in Oslos "Karl Johans gate":

 

On these days in december one of the best popgroups of the world said goodbye with their last concerts.
For this reason the nasjonalbiblioteket showed an exhibition in honour of a-ha:

Diving in Krk

In Croatia there are a lot of very nice divespots. One of the bests are on the island Krk.
Living in Kornic near Punat and diving with divesport Krk is one of the best possibilities for diving in Krk.
On the east coast of Krk there is the possibility to dive to the Peltastis, a very spectacular wreck.

This scorpion fish was seen near Mali Plavnik.

The nice bay of Punat/Kornic.

Calvi and Balagne "Vue du ciel"

The region Balagne with the city of Calvi is situated in the northwest of Corsica.
A sightseeing flight in this region is very profitable, because this is one of the most beautiful regions of Corsica.
There is for example the picturesque village Sant'Antonino:

On the seaside east of Calvi exists the peninsula "La Revellata" with its lighthouse. By the way a very nice place to dive:

The city of Calvi with its very old and nice citadel is really a piece of jewellery in the Mediteranian: