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A Walk in the Black Forest

02 Fri Sep 2016

Posted by Clare Pooley in holidays, Insects, plants, walking, wild flowers

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bedstraw, berries, bilberry, Black Forest, brimstone butterfly, butterfly, cat's-ear, Common Bird's-foot Trefoil, Common Cow-wheat, Common Earthball, common knapweed, Dame's-violet, forest, foxglove, holiday, Lesser Stitchwort, Loosestrife, Lysimachia, Male Fern, moth, Polypody, Scarlet Tiger moth, Small Balsam, Speedwell, St John's-wort, trees, Triberg, views, walking

Our week’s holiday was coming to an end and we wanted to take a walk in the beautiful countryside around the town of Triberg.  The hotel thoughtfully provided maps and suggestions for walks so we chose one and adapted it for our use.  Neither Richard nor I are as fit or as young as we used to be and Elinor cannot walk very far because of her scoliosis so we decided on a half-circuit of the town in the woods.  We went in the direction of the railway station and took a steep path up between houses towards the forest.

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Bilberries (Vaccinium myrtillus)

We were soon high enough to be able to look down on the town which was very busy with Sunday visitors and many motorbikes.  I think Richard told us this part of the walk was called the Bilberry Wood and there were certainly many bilberries growing at the side of the path.

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There was plenty of fungus too. I think this may be Common Earthball (Scleroderma citrinum)

We soon climbed a little further into the forest and left the town behind and no longer heard the traffic.

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The forest became denser but there was never any difficulty following the path which was beautifully maintained.  I began to see many different plants; some I recognised and some I didn’t.  If anyone can help me with the names of these plants I will be very grateful.

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Polypody (Polypodium vulgare) – a true fern. When walking with my family I always get left behind because I like to take photos of plants and fungi. I don’t have the time to take the detailed shots I would like in order to identify my finds in case I am left too far behind!

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More Polypody

I love the chunkiness of Polypody so I cropped one of the photos above to look at it in more detail.

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Polypody

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I think this might be Small Balsam (Impatiens parviflora)

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Unknown flower

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It’s very tall!

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Interesting leaves

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Common Cow-wheat (Melampyrum pratense)

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Wild flowers including a Bedstraw, Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) and Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea).

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Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

Speedwell
Speedwell
Speedwell
Speedwell
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This may be Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)

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St John’s-wort; I don’t know which of the many St John’s-worts it is.

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Cat’s-ear (Hypochaeris radicata)

P1000868Lysimachia

Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata)

I managed to photograph a butterfly….

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A Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) on Lysimachia

…and a moth.

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A Scarlet Tiger Moth (Callimorpha dominula). When flying I could see its underwings which were bright scarlet.

The views as we walked were marvellous.

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Berries
Berries
Dame's-violet (Hesperis matronalis)
Dame’s-violet (Hesperis matronalis)
Unknown yellow flower
Unknown yellow flower
Common Knapweed ( Centaurea nigra)
Common Knapweed ( Centaurea nigra)

The path eventually returned us to the town near to the waterfall.

My music selection today is ‘A Walk in the Black Forest’ which was so popular on the radio when I was a little girl.

I am hoping that Elinor will provide the last of my Black Forest posts.

Thanks for visiting!

 

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Black Forest Holiday – Part 2

08 Mon Aug 2016

Posted by Clare Pooley in family, holidays, walking

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birds, Black Forest, Ernest Hemingway, fungi, holiday, lichen, memorials, moss, Nutcracker, Otto von Bismarck, red squirrels, Triberg, waterfall, wildflowers

On our second full day on holiday we thought we would go and see the Triberg waterfall which we were informed is the highest waterfall in Germany.  (In fact, it isn’t as Rothbach Waterfall in Bavaria is the highest with a single, vertical drop of 470 metres.)  We had a short walk through the town to the nature park entrance where we were able to get free entry by using the guest-card that the hotel had given us on our arrival.

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Just a few minutes walk brought us to the waterfall.

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The waterfall is a series of seven cascades falling 160 metres into the valley.

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The waterfall can be heard in the town.

The paths and bridges have been carefully designed to enable everyone to see the falls clearly.

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I didn’t just photograph the waterfall.  There were plenty of plants that interested me, some I recognised and others I still cannot put a name to.

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Touch-me-not Balsam (Impatiens noli-tangere)

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Fungus

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Lichen

P1000751Yellow flower

Unidentified yellow flower

P1000754Slime mould

Slime mould

Moss
Moss
More moss
More moss
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Hoof fungus (Fomes fomentarius) ?

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Orange-coloured fungus.

P1000778Indian Balsam

Indian Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera)

P1000779Figwort phps

Wood Sage (Teucrium scorodonia)

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Wood Sage flower spike

We also saw glimpses of Red Squirrels, which are not rare in Germany, but they were too quick for me and I was unable to photograph one.

I was very pleased that I managed to photograph a Nutcracker, a bird from the crow family.  They are one of the smallest crows at 12.5 inches long, even smaller than a Jackdaw, and they were moving about quickly in the undergrowth feeding newly fledged young.

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Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) on a tree-stump

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This is the above photo which has been cropped

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Nutcracker

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Nutcracker

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Nutcracker

Only one of those photos was cropped though I had to use the zoom on my camera to its fullest extent for the rest!

There were a few commemorative plaques placed on the rock face; this one is for Otto von Bismarck.

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Bismarck commemoration

This one is for Ernest Hemingway

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On the right are his dates of birth and death under a note saying that Ernest Hemingway visited Triberg in the Black Forest in August 1922 where he indulged in his passion for fishing. There is a quote from ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ on the left where he talks about a trout-fishing trip to Triberg.

We enjoyed our walk through the forest and before returning to our hotel, indulged in some more coffee and cake!

Thanks for visiting!

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A Holiday in the Black Forest

04 Thu Aug 2016

Posted by Clare Pooley in family, holidays, Rural Diary

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Black Forest railway, Bollenhutte, Brussels, Caffee und Kuchen, cake shops, Cologne, cuckoo-clock shops, Deutsche Bahn, Ebbsfleet, Eurostar, holiday, ICE trains, Liege-Guillemins station, luggage, Luggagemule, Offenburg, packing, Parkhotel Wehrle, River Gutach, trains, travelling, Triberg

We recently had an eight-day holiday in the Black Forest in Germany.  Richard organised the whole trip on his own, booking the hotel independently and then contacting Deutsche Bahn who recommended a route for us to take.  We enjoy travelling by train!  On previous trips we have used couchettes or sleeping cars but Elinor said that she’d rather we didn’t do that again so we managed to get the whole journey done in one day, setting off from home at 4.30 am and getting to the hotel just before 9.00 pm (8.00 pm British time) the same day.

We drove to Ebbsfleet in Kent where we left the car and went through passport control and customs before boarding the Eurostar.

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The view from the waiting area at Ebbsfleet

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Richard and Elinor eager to board the train!

Modern high-speed trains are usually very pleasant to travel on.  The seats are comfortable, there is no jolting or bumping and there is hardly any engine noise.  We seem to slide through the countryside at 140 mph almost as though we are hovering above the ground rather than fixed on tracks.  The only downside is travelling through tunnels which make my ears pop and not being able to see the scenery at times because of sound barriers built next to the line near towns and villages.  The tunnel under the English Channel only takes 20 minutes to go through and the train is travelling at a mere 80 mph.  This rate of travel is still very surprising to me; I have always journeyed by train and my first train trip to the Continent when I was 14 years old began at Victoria Station in London.  That first leg from London to Dover took about an hour and 40 minutes.  We went through customs and then boarded a ferry to Ostend in Belgium.  The sea journey took three or four hours and we then caught a large train to Paris.  It was very exciting!  Everything looked and smelt so different.  I remember setting off from London about midday and eventually getting to Paris that evening where we ran from one station to another dodging the crazy traffic and quickly finding something to eat before we boarded the sleeper to Munich.

But back to our recent journey – the Eurostar took just over two hours to get to Brussels where we had a couple of hours wait for our next connection to Cologne.

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Here we are having some lunch at a café near the station in Brussels.  Richard is just posting a photo of his beer on Facebook……

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Jupiler Belgian Pils

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….and taking a picture of me and Elinor. I see that I am looking very tired which is not surprising as I had only had two hours sleep the night before!

It was so pleasant to be out in the sunshine and the lunch was exceedingly good.  What I found sad was the sight of armoured cars and armed soldiers and police everywhere.  With all the terrible attacks all over Europe it is not to be wondered at but I find it very upsetting all the same.

Our next train arrived on time and we were soon on our way to Cologne.

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This is the station at Liege-Guillemins – the first stop on the way to Cologne. It is a beautiful building; Richard was able to take this photo through the window while we were there.

The last time we passed through Liege, work had begun recently to up-grade the tracks for high-speed trains.  I don’t remember seeing this station then.  Catalan architect Santiago Calatrava designed the building and it really is superb.

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I think this might be us arriving at Cologne. Richard took this view of the River Rhine through the train window.

We had a 40 minute stop in Cologne where we dashed about looking for food as we would be arriving too late at our hotel for a meal.  Our next high-speed train took us to the small town of Offenburg where we needed to buy more water as we had forgotten this in Cologne.  Luckily, there was a drinks dispenser on the platform and we bought two bottles of ice-cold mineral water.  By this time the fine weather had disappeared and it was raining hard and quite chilly.

Our last train was a double-decker local train to Triberg which travelled through very scenic countryside, though by this time it was very gloomy and wet and after 8.00 in the evening.  We had arranged with the hotel for a taxi to pick us up at the station and as soon as we got off the train we were halloo-ed by the driver who was over on the opposite platform.

He drove us quickly to our hotel where we booked in and found that our other suitcases had already arrived and were waiting in our rooms.  We had decided to use a company called ‘Luggage Mule’ to help get all our belongings on holiday.  Lugging heavy suitcases on and off trains is a back-breaking business and as we usually need a large case for our medication alone we thought having someone else do the lifting was a good idea.  The cases were collected six days before our holiday started and I found packing this far in advance quite tricky.  Inevitably, there were things I wished I’d included and hadn’t and things I wished I hadn’t included but had!  We were amused by the list of things that we were forbidden to pack.  As you will see from the list, we had to leave our sink behind!  We still managed to find more things we couldn’t do without for eight days to fill two smaller suitcases that we carried with us on the journey (see the second photo above)!  Three washbags, cosmetics, medication for three people with chronic illnesses, Elinor’s books and drawing materials, her laptop and my notebook PC, shoes we had forgotten to pack earlier, coats etc made us look like a normal family going away for a week.

Our rooms in the hotel were comfortable and spacious and we slept well after our long day.  The following morning we enjoyed a delicious buffet breakfast and then had a short wander round Triberg, the town where we were staying.

View from our window
View from our window
View from our window
View from our window
P1000882Our hotel

Our hotel. I took this photo the last evening we were there.

P1000883Our hotel

Another wing of the hotel is on the left of the photo.  Ernest Hemingway stayed in this hotel when he visited the Black Forest.

It wasn’t a warm day and there was a mixture of sunshine and showers but we saw that it was a pretty place though very busy with tourists like us.

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This is one of many cuckoo-clock shops in the town – I took the photo near the end of our holiday when the weather had improved.

As you see from the picture we had arrived in the land of large teddy bears.  Two worked unceasingly at their clock-making and another abseiled up and down the outside of the shop all day.

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The top of the town with the River Gutach in amongst the trees at the bottom of the photo.

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This is a little garden in the centre of the town. There are two large carved figures here that look like Easter Island statues with red balls on their heads.

I believe these statues represent Triberger women in their distinctive national costume and their Bollenhutte (hats with pompoms).

Photo taken from Google images

After our walk about the town we returned to the hotel for a few hours to rest and then at about 4 o’clock we went out for ‘Kaffee und Kuchen’ (coffee and cakes)  Our breakfast had been so satisfying that we hadn’t needed lunch but by mid-afternoon we were in need of a little something to eat.  The cake shop opposite the hotel served the most delicious cakes!

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Café Adler – the cake shop

In the evening we went out for a meal at a restaurant close to the hotel.  For the time we were in Germany we tried to eat local Black Forest food for every meal.  It was all very good indeed though I found there weren’t as many vegetables as I am used to in these dishes which were mainly meat with potatoes or arborio rice or noodles.

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One of our favourite places to eat

In the next post I will describe what we did while in Germany.

Thanks for visiting!

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