Visitor coming down our stairs

Lonely cat on stairs - visitor cat. She is stepping down the stairs and 

going up on the driveway.

Family on stairs

Starting an outing -

The upper and lower Nagold reservoir in Blackforest

Children and grandchildren wanted cooling during the summer heat -

33° and more

and they liked it ...

After the heat the big rain came and with it the flooding in our

basement - no damage - much work - and in the end my bruised knee

after a serious slip on wet tiles - of course it was wet everywhere. 

It is a week by now and I am still limping - I need patience -

I like to run about the house and do everything very fast - 

Hvar by day

Impressions of Hvar in the morning

Old stone houses but with air conditioning

no cars ever go here - before in old times donkeys or mules did the transport
The last one I saw was in the 70ies.
But it happens that we can see a donkey in the fields: We joke and say it is for
the tourists.

The town is built on a hill

Today it is seen as embellishment - we were told that they had curtains hanging on

rods - on either side of the window 

everywhere stairs - donkeys or mules could climb them -

The main plaza - by chance empty - and 3 minutes later ....

people in this side road - which is leading upwards another hill
and all over cafés and restaurants. They renovated this old palace

it was looking always like that since 1470 - never finished
beause the building owner died and left his widow who could not afford
the completion -
The photo is of 1912 - a beautiful Roman style window can be seen here
----- covered by palm trees on my own not very expert photo above.

Nice stonework

Another palace

Cute boats in the window of a little shop - the shelf is wavy

We go further up-hill

A glimps of the castle above the town - it is much farther than it looks here.

And these are the real colours of the Adriatic Sea - no wonder

that I love blue and green together.