Something delicious

My knee is better as well as my cooking. Today I cooked something very delicious:

rumpsteak with rosemary potatoes, green beans and sour cream.

Less successful was my brownie experiment - edible, but at the edges a bit dark.

Swedish vs. French

Even with my bad knee, I spent my sunday in the kitchen.

This time, tried out some French and Swedish stuff. I started with croissants. For this you use puff pastry and cut it into triangles. It's important to have big triangle or the croissants become very small as mine. Then you can fill them with whatever you want: dark chocolate, Kinder chocolate bar or hearty with ham and cheese.

The Swedish way of preparing salmon with dill and with white sauce is not my kind of food, but was edible.

For dessert, I prepared a clafoutis with berries. That's a French dessert with egg dough baked in a casserole with fruits. In my opinion, it's best to have small casserole for everyone and bake it in them, as it is difficult to get it out of it in a nice way. It was very tasty, Victor finished two big casseroles of it alone.

Photo session

I bought a new digicam this year and wanted to start handling it with more professionalism, so I enrolled in a photo course about the basics: light, sharpness and movement.

We went on a 3,5 hours excursion through Munich, starting at the Glyptothek where we took pictures of several statues.

From there we went on foot to Odeonsplatz. On the way, we made pictures of moving cars. The square we took some street scenes and I shoot a lion.

Another trip with the subway and another walk by foot and we came to a Park next to the Isar. We did some Makros of trees and grass and some photos of the flowing water of the river Isar.

Bella Montagna

Our yearly skiing trip brought us back to Livigno and the Valtellina. The first day in Livigno was very windy and stormy. We also did some involuntary uphill ski tour, when one of the chairlifts was out of order and just started functioning again when we reached the top. In the afternoon, we moved on to Bormio.

There we had rented a nice three-room flat with two bathrooms near the city centre and with a view on the surrounding mountains. The mountrains called us very early in the morning, so we were the first people uphill and the first to cover the distance to the valley.

The first people to move uphill!

and the first to ski downhill

or snowboard.

The last straight part of the slope is only meant for experts. Especially, the hill after this signboard - our name for it: "Hill of Death".

Next to the finish was the kids' hill and as we are still kids at hearts, we grabbed a rubber doughnut, jumped on it and slided downhill.

For lunch, we went to the best hillside pizzeria there is above 2000 meters: La Rocca. Afterwards, we chilled some more time out in the sun with a cappucino.

The other days, we spent in Isolaccia and Santa Caterina Valfurva.

Sun Valley Hut with warm fire inside

Victor steeping.

Micha going fast downhill.

Victor faster:-)

Unfortunately, on the fifth day I fell on 3000 meters and twisted my knee. The next thousand vertical meters took me very long as I could only ski left curves and go backwards, but no right curves. Inka brought me to the hospitals of Bormio and Sondalo and my knee got x-rayed. Then I nearly waited an hour in the plaster cast room, fearing they would plaster my leg before I could say a word. In the end, my bones were okay and I got a bandage. (Now I know, my cruciate is torn and will take some time and a surgery to recover.)

The final days, I spent on the couch reading books and watching movies on my laptop. On the trip back, I walked around Livigno and could enjoy the ice figure gallery.

Axamer Lizum

The last weekend of February, Victor, my dad and me spent in Axamer Lizum near Innsbruck.This time the sun was shining, the snow great and not too many people.
In two days, we covered 50 km downhill, 26 lifts uphill and 11,926 vertical meters.

The night, we spent in a cheap hotel in Innsbruck. In contradiction to the online assessment, the breakfast was okay even that they only offered sweet, but the room was very shitty and the bathroom was smelling badly.