Europe Round Trip 2011

These pictures are from my 2011 round trip in Central-Eastern Europe, through Baltic, Poland, and Czech to Austria, and back through Germany, Denmark and Sweden.

This time I used only my new Canon G12, which is much easier to carry around than my Canon 40D + 5 lenses + video camera, some 5 kg in weight. While the G12 is just OK for taking basic travel pics, it is somehow much more difficult to take any visually spectacular pictures with it. Weather has a great influence of course and most of the time the weather was rather dull.

Unfortunately, the stupid tracker application I used kept only the last 20 or so tracks, so I lost all the location information for the first ten days. Many of the pictures in Austria contain the geographical location information and have a link to Google Maps, but I didn't have tracking on all the time. For some pictures I have set the location manually. I really need a good 24/7 tracker device.

Note the new keyboard support in the image view: arrow left and right navigate the to previous and next picture (when possible), and arrow up to the index.

Baltic and Poland
Leaving August 5th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Estonia August 6-7th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
Latvia August 7th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Kaunas, Lithuenia August 7th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
Poland August 8th to 9th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Torun, Poland August 8th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
The route went through Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuenia, through the Via Baltica (E67) road. After arriving at Poland, I turned from the E67 to Torun, the birth place of Nikolai Copernicus.
Czech
Kutna Hora August 9th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Praha August 10th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
Cesky Krumlov August 11th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Sumava National Park August 12th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
The last time I went quickly through Czech in just a few hours, not even stepping out of the car. This time, I spent more time there. Accomodation and food were really cheap which makes this a great destination.
Hallstatt and Dachstein Area in Austrian Salzkammergut
Hallstatt August 13th to 21st 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Predigstuhl August 14th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
Toplitszee August 15th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Krippenstein August 16th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
Dachstein Highlands August 16-17th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Taubenkogel August 17th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
Bad Goisern and Gosau August 18th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Sarstein August 20th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
The main objective of the trip, Hallstatt and the surrounding area.
Coming Back
Germany August 21st 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]			Sweden August 25th 1024 x 768 [index] 683 x 512 [index] 480 x 360 [index]
Came back driving quite fast through Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. I didn't stop much and took pictures even less.

Notes

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