Aug 19, 2011

Langeland (The Long Island), August 2011

From the flat that Lisbeth has rented in relation to a one year job in Langeland Municipality, we investigated the beautiful nature of Langeland.
We had two themes of our trips:
1. Cycling.
2. Flooding
There are a lot of small roads winding through the landscape, with very few cars and perfect for cycling.
It has been raining heavily the last month, and the heavy soils of Langeland was soaked with water, so the additional rain resulted in surface run-off and flooding of the low laying part of the fields.


The Sunday cycling trip was in southernmost part of Langeland: Dovns Klint, and was shortened by heavy rain.

The municipality has invested a lot of money for new plots of land for individual houses, and the were ready, just before the heavy rain - now it seems that they are more suited for swimming than for building

Another view to the new plots of land for individual houses

The cycling trip of Monday afternoon was around Nørreballe Nor



Some friends came for a fishing trip - Langeland is famous for good fishing from the coast



The cycling trip of Tuesday was just southeast of the Rudkøbing, the main town of Langeland



The cycling trip Wednesday afternoon was to Spodsbjerg, east of Rudkøbing

The landscape of Langeland is dominated by windmills



Traditional Danish countryside church

Lisbeths flat is situated in the old town of Rudkøbing in a house called "Washington" an old inn for the sailors on the Goose Square.
Goose Square with the statute of H.C. Ørsted, the inventor of electromagnetism, and one of the many famous sons of Langeland (why no famous daughters?).

The view for Lisbeths flat direction the harbour

The view for Lisbeths flat direction the centre of the town

Lisbeths flat

The memorial plate for the famous Ørsted brothers on the pharmacy opposite Lisbeths flat, where they were born

The cycling trip Thursday afternoon was to Tranekær, north of Rudkøbing. Prehistoric burial ground - a sacred place where the wealthy Stone Age people buried their death.

Aug 3, 2011

David Gareja, Saturday, 30 July 2011

We started our trip to very early, at 6.30, to avoid the mid-day heat at this desert like place.
We walked the up to the mountain ridge which is the border to Azerbaijan to se the frescoes in the caves that once were homes and churches for monks.
More pictures and info on:
http://jesper-48.blogspot.com/2009/04/davit-gareja-sunday-5-april-2009.html
http://jesper-48.blogspot.com/2009/11/davit-gareja-sunday-22-november-2009.html
http://jesper-48.blogspot.com/2010/07/eastern-georgia-19-25-july-2010.html


On our way to David Gareja



The mountain ridge with Georgia on the right side and Azerbaijan on the left.

Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus)



















We stopped to buy some water melons – plenty of such places on the roadside when you approach Tbilisi.

To Village Pansheti, 29 July 2011

On our last day in Kazbegi we took an easy walk upstream the river




On our way we passed a swimming pool supplied by water from a spring. Probably it was build in soviet times, but still functional.









Our hostess

Dima's very old and not very good VW Golf in front of our homestay.

To Mount Kazbeg, 28 July 2011

Torbjørn an I allocated a whole day in Kazbegi to a walk up to one of the glaciers from Mount Kazbeg, 1,3 km above the city. It was a bit too tuff, I would recommend to take a taxi to the Gergeti Trinity Church to cut 400 meters from the 1,3 km. I could fell the trip in my legs several days after.


Mount Kazbeg is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus





We went in the direction of Gergeti Trinity Church along a small stream



View to Mount Kazbeg

On our (long) way up

After many hours of walking we got the view of the glacier - one of several glaciers starting from Mount Kazbeg







Rhododendron



It started to rain and we hurried down - fortunately it ended just as fast as it started



Sunset over Mount Kazbeg

Silhouette of Gergeti Trinity Church

One of the small cliffs right of mount Kazbeg had a silhouette very similar to the Gergeti Trinity Church

Sunset over Mount Kazbeg