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Snowfest 2010

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:10:04 +0000

Another year, another great party in the Swiss Alps. As usual, Laax was host to the Dutch Championships Snowboarding 2.0: Snowfest. A new name for the same good ol’ fun: boarding, parties, the occasional rail, contests and some more pratying to top things up.

A small selection of the week can be found in this slideshow,
to see all images from all events: click on the link below.

Full gallery of all (downloadable) images here!

Favorite Views of the World: Bastei, Germany

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:07:35 +0000

Sandstone and water erosion created this Bastei view a million years ago.

Views fit for the 19th century romantics…

While en route from Prague to Dresden by bike for this article we just had to make a full stop before entering the latter city. A couple of hours (by bike) before the town lies a fantastically hidden place called Bastei: remnants of water erosion that happened a millions years ago.
What was left is an incredible landscape of 300 meter high rock pillars in what is now appropriately called Saxon Switzerland. It is actually one of the oldest mass tourist attractions on the continent and it’s easy to see why. You really cannot prepare for the vistas that are to be expected when taking the 45 minute walk to the top.

Hi-res Panorama of Bastei

In 1824 a wooden bridge was built that had to be upgraded to a sandstone one: the Basteibridge that is still in use today and is a monument to the building qualities of that day. Not surprisingly the place was highly favored by the romantics of the period like Casper Friedrich and Hans Christian Andersen. Going there is literally stepping back into the 19th century. That is if you can avoid the crowds by going up in a light drizzle, which also helps getting some spectacular low clouds in the picture. Stay in the village of Rathen if you’re not into rushing it, nice views and plenty of little restaurants which aren’t too packed after dusk sets in (and the tourbusses are gone).

View from the 150+ year old Bastei Bridge.

Slideshow, browse it fullscreen!

Dutch Champs 2009, photo's online

admin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:07:55 +0000

A full series of (allmost) all my images from the NK Snowboard 2009 in Laax is now online!

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