Spring is approaching! At least on some days. Took this a few weeks ago while having a bike ride. Feels so relieving, every year, when the dark winter gets pushed away by the spring and days are getting longer. Day by day.
Winter lights
After a few years break, I went to the annual “winter lights” event at the ega-park again this winter. I mean, it was in winter time but it did not feel like winter. At least on that day.
Lovely to see how the event spreads more and more over the park with every year. Almost the whole park was being illuminated by various light installations and animations.
As it was an unusual mild day, it had been a comfortably walk through the park with enough patience to find beautiful details. And some delicious Thuringian street food of course. Haven’t eaten a Bratwurst since months at that time.
Smoke tree awesomeness in 2023
It was time again, the autumn colour [paradise] had been painted. Like every year, just georgeous.
I did an upgrade of my gear in September last year. This was the first time I went out with my Sigma 17-50 2.8 lens. I always wanted a wide-aperture lens on short focal length and so far, I am happy with it.
The last pictures…
…of my trip to the Acropolis Rallye of Greece in September last year. Something I haven’t done before, but this post will contain more than one photo. All are taken at the Karoutes stage (8/11) on Saturday.
Again it was a perfect event and a perfect weekend and as always, a pleasure to have been there.
Sébastien Ogier / Vincent Landais
Ott Tänak / Martin Järveoja
Sébastien Ogier / Vincent Landais
Esapekka Lappi
Esapekka Lappi drifting by. Again, 2023 Acropolis Rallye of Gods (in Greece). This time on stage 11 (Karoutes 2), which was the same as stage 8 on the pictures before. Just a different spot for me, 400 meters up the road.
Takamato Katsuta
Takamoto Katsuta, SS8 (Karoutes 1), Acropolis Rallye of Greece 2023.
Have a look at the photo I took of him on Sardinia last year, this guy is a guarantee for specatcular dust clouds.
Ott Tänak
And on it goes. This is Ott Tänak passing by at stage 8 (Karoutes 1) of this years Acropolis Rallye of Greece.
Thierry Neuville
As you might know, there is always a purpose behind travelling to rallyes: taking pictures in the dust. It all started at the 2006 Acropolis Rallye of Greece, went over to Rally Italia Sardegna on the beautiful island of Sardinia and in this year I finally went back to the Rallye of Gods in Greece.
In this picture: Thierry Neuville in his Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC at stage 8 on Saturday morning. This stage was near the town of Itea, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth.
Acropolis of Athens
After sad and/or unlucky circumstances in the past years, this years trip to another WRC event was the first time, where we went as a complete travel group again. Exciting for me, as we finally went back to the Rallye of Gods, the famous Acropolis Rally of Greece. Haven’t been in Attika since 2013, the last event before this rallye got ditched from the WRC calendar.
The first thing we usually do after arrival: grocery shopping and visiting downtown Athens to enjoy the strange atmosphere in that city and going up Philopappou Hill to catch the view over to the Acropolis.
Stairway to heaven
An absolute highlight on Madeira. The well known “stairway to heaven”. Again I was really lucky with the weather that day. And again with not having others around me. This spot gets heavily crowded around sunrise as it is part of the PR1 hiking trail between Pico do Arieiro and Pico Ruivo. Many hikers use the magical light from the upcoming sun to start their hike.