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How green is my valley.....
View on Hore Abbey from the Irish castle, the Rock of Cashel, a.k.a. the Kings & St. Patrick's Rock, Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.
A view of Cathedral Rocks in the Yosemite National Park valley. #NPS #YosemiteNationalPark #valley #CathedralRocks #California #mountains #montagnes #Berge
Mompé Medel is a traditional Swiss village on a plateau above Disentis, in the Canton of Graubünden. The view from our holiday home in Disentis was towards Mompé Medel, so this photo reminds me of a lovely, relaxing time. More photos of this trip will follow soon. [Explored on 06.08.2020, #144]
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The Rein da Medel or the Medelser Rhein is the longest tributary stream flowing towards the Rhine near to its source. I took this photo at Fuorns in the Val Medel. The view is downstream, towards Disentis.
We had just had our packed lunch, sitting on the boulders in the Rein da Medel. I enjoyed myself thoroughly! [Explored on 07/04/2021, #156]
The IJssel Valley (IJsselvallei) is a remnant of a so called glacial Zungenbecken during the Saale glaciation.
Another impression of that cloudy day we walked up the Gemsteltal, a side-valley of the Kleinwalsertal in Austria. The clouds didn't come any lower and it didn't rain - or not much - creating a special atmosphere of things that were visible and those that weren't ...
[Explored on 28/10/2022, #237, in the Green Takeover, one day after "Landscape Near Messkirch" was explored!]
After a downpour, this was the view from our holiday home into the Surselva valley and Val Medel (ahead of us). Clouds are rising from both valleys and sunset adds bright colours.
The beautiful traditional village Mompé Medel stretches out over the hill in front of us. [Explored on 02/02/2021, #91]
From the Oberer Höhenweg - the Panorama Trail - you can view into the Wildental. Later in our holiday, we would descend into that valley from over one of the mountains in the background. [Explored on 18/10/2021, #157]
This day started grey in the valley but when the Kanzelwand cable car had taken us up, it was like arriving in heaven! Such bright light and then being above the clouds in the valley - a heavenly view! [Explored on 29/03/2022, #120]
Vergezeld van een mooie winterzon verlaat de 6086 met zijn buurtgoederentrein Treignes richting Mariembourg. Het typische geluid van deze Cockerill galmde hier prachtig door de vallei.
13-02-2021
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Kootenay Valley and the river down below. At the start of a hike to Cobb Lake in Kootenay National Park, Canada. [Explored on 25/05/2021, #186]
View on the lovely traditional village of Mompé Medel from above - you can make out the chapel. And below in the valley is Disentis with its Benedictine monastery. [Explored on 29/10/2020, #182]
A good view on the Fellhorn ridge trail, taken from the slope of the Fellhorn. It shows that the ridge isn't sharp - not in this place, anyway. And the views are spectacular in all directions, here in the direction of the German Allgäu and of the Austrian Kleinwalsertal.
I love the vast expanse, the unlimited feeling of space! [Explored on 22/1/22, #98]
The peaks in the background form 'the end' of the Austrian Kleinwalsertal: you can climb them but there are no roads leading over them into the rest of Austria. This is one of the things that makes the Kleinwalsertal unique: you can only reach it by car from Germany.
This view is from the Walmendingerhorn (1996m) towards Baad, the last village of the Kleinwalsertal. [Explored on 30/05/2022, #85]
De Abdij van Val-Dieu ontstond begin 13e eeuw als een uitbreiding van de Abdij van Hocht (bij Maastricht), een klooster dat zich in deze periode steeds meer ontwikkelde tot een adellijk stift voor vrouwen. In 1203 had de abdij in Weerst al een stuk grond gekocht om daarop een nieuwe abdij voor cisterciënzermonniken te bouwen. In 1216 schonk de toenmalige graaf van Dalhem, Lotharius van Are Hochstaden, echter grond voor een nieuwe abdij in het Land van Herve, precies op de grens van het graafschap Dalhem en het hertogdom Limburg. Ook Hendrik III van Limburg deed een schenking aan de nieuwe gemeenschap. In 1217 en 1218 werd de stichting door een pauselijke bul bevestigd.
Op deze plek, in de dunbevolkte vallei van de Berwijn, ontstond in korte tijd een kloostergemeenschap met op haar hoogtepunt in de 13e eeuw tot dertig monniken en een areaal van 1000 hectare. De abdij bezat toen ook zes molens, drie hoeven, acht schuren en wijngaarden. Toch was de gemeenschap nooit echt talrijk maar economisch wel belangrijk voor de streek. Op politiek gebied nam de abt van Godsdal zitting in de statenvergadering van Dalhem. Vanaf 1598 was de abt afgevaardigd in de Staten van Limburg en de Landen van Overmaas.
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Back to the Alps, where I am looking down towards Mittelberg from Alpe Kuhgehren (1673m). On this bright and sunny day the valley below us had been hidden by clouds below us when we arrived at the top of the Kanzelwand cable lift. Here there are just a few clouds left and Mittelberg in the Kleinwalsertal is now visible.
There seems to be one tall tree in this forest, the sole survivor of an ancient battle ...
View near Alp Puzzetta in Val Medel, Switzerland. Looking towards Disentis Abbey, just visible in the far distance. [Explored on 22/03/2021, #142]
To me, this photo is a memory of a magnificent hike to the source of the River Rhine, but it also somehow symbolises the difficult times we're going through. It is a long and winding road (yes, I'm a Beatles-fan) and we are so small within this vast world (zoom in to discover a tiny walker and his dog, as well as a car). There are shadows, but also bright sunshine. As long as we make sure there is nature like this left, we'll survive! [Explored on 01/01/2021!, #144]
View on the hamlet Zarcuns with its beautiful 17th-century chapel and the majestic Witenalpstock (3016 m) in the background. I particularly like the white walls of the chapel and the golden globes and moons on its tower.
This was the start of a new walk to Val Strem - the old bridge in the foreground crosses River Strem. [Explored on 10/10/2020, #146]
The Glacier Express took us from Disentis (1130m) to the Oberalppass at 2033m! We are now much closer to the Oberalppass, so you can see that the landscape is getting more desolate.
Taken from the train, the Glacier Express (see my previous photo).
You can just see the tower of Slad church in the distance.
This is one of the views from the Laurie Lee Wildlife Way.
Back to my holiday in the South Cotswolds, England. I've already posted a photo of Steanbridge Farm in Slad, and this is another view from across the valley, when we were on the 'Laurie Lee Wildlife Way'.
We've come out of the wood on our rainy afternoon and have reached the valley 'Val Sogn Placi' with a view on two villages: Faltscharidas in the foreground and Cavardiras in the distance. As there is little work in the region apart from tourism, many people have left their homes to find a job elsewhere. Luckily, some holiday makers buy the traditional houses and restore them to their old glory. Still, I think it is a pity that it has become impossible to survive on traditional, small-scale farming ...
And this is the view you would get from the houses in the previous two photos - probably better still because I took this from the road and they are situated a bit higher. I love these wide views over valleys where you can see miniature houses and follow cars driving over distant roads - especially after nightfall!
This is a view over Baad, the last village in the Austrian Kleinwalsertal.
The Kleinwalsertal is a quite special valley: though it belongs to Austria, you can only enter it by car via Germany and it was originally settled by Swiss people!
You can drive into the Kleinwalsertal from the German village Oberstdorf in the Allgäuer Alpen, well-known for its ski flying hill where world championships are held. The Kleinwalsertal, however, is Austrian territory and behind the peaks in my photo lies the rest of the Austrian province of Vorarlberg.
The first settlers came over those mountains - not from Austria but from the Swiss canton of Wallis! It is said that it all started with 5 families who crossed the Alps (for reasons unknown) in the thirteenth century. Many more people from Wallis wandered to other parts of the Austrian Vorarlberg and to other Swiss cantons. These people were called "Walser" (= people from Wallis), hence the name of the valley: Kleinwalsertal.
Val Medel with in the background the glacier Glatscher da Medel framed by trees. A view you get when you follow the 'Senda dils Laruns', a walking trail that illustrates the importance of mountain woods. It takes you from Caischavedra to Disentis.
The mountains in the background are Piz Medel (3210 m) and Piz Cristallina.
Further along the high-altitude trail I could again capture the Wildental, this time with Rosebay Willowherbs in the foreground.
Another highlight of our trip to the Kleinwalsertal: this panorama just above the Schwarzwasserhütte, a mountain hut in the valley with the same name. The mountain with the flat top is the 'Hoher Ifen' as you may know from previous photos I posted. We climbed even higher after reaching the hut, into the next valley. I'll be posting photos of that hike later on.
It was quite cold and windy that day and apart from the mountain hut and a farm it was a desolate and wild place - something I like! [Explored on 07/02/2022, #216]