Ager

For 4 days we went to Eastern Catalonia and stayed in Ager, a nice medival village with a castle on the top. From there we went on a 5 hour hike on one day to the Congost Mont Rebei, the canyon and landscape is very beautiful, but it was a hard hike with Irina in a backpack and on a hot and sunny day without much shade. On another day we drove to some villages around Ager and enjoyed the foothills of the Pyrenees. I also had the chance to go paragliding in a doubleseater, on a perfect day we flew from the Montsec moutnain down to Ager. On the way back home we visited Balaguer and Tarrega, two towns with some nice old buildings.

Congost Mont Rebei

Walking through the canyon

Lake and behind the Congost Mont Rebei

Santa Linya near Ager

Barrier lake of Sant Llorence de Montgai

View from the paraglider towards the Montsec moutain

Church and castle of Ager

Balaguer

Tarrega

Black Forest

During our holidays in September we stayed in Basel, Switzerland, and from there we went for a few days to the Black Forest in Germany. On the first day we drove to Baden-Baden, a nice town in the northern part of the Black forest. The night we spent in a hotel on the Hohenbaden castle. Actually it's a ruin, quite big and situated high above Baden-Baden on a rocky outcrop. There we had a small flat with a bed and living room, it was nice, but a bit too cold inside the stony walls.
The next day we drove along the Hochschwarzwald road to Freudenstadt with its very big square in the center of the town. From there we went on to Haigerloch where we spent the night in the castle. On the way back to Basel we visited the impressive Hohenzollern castle on the top of a mountain.

Hohenbaden castle above Baden-Baden

Church in Baden-Baden

Hohenbaden castle

Central square in Freudenstadt

Haigerloch

Hohenzollern castle



Hohenzollern castle





Hohenzollern castle



Waterfall in Menzenschwand