The Alps from July 2008

[Ewelina Wajgert]

We were all in all 12 days with the rented car (Mercedes transit) and tents. So, we was able to stay for the every night in another place.

Below my home on wheels, with which I have tripped in the Alps and earlier to Iceland.

[Thomas Huber]

Hi Ewelina and welcome back!
Great photos of great landscape, many thanks!

[hadacekf]

 Ewelina,
Beautiful images, thanks.
5. Primula spectabilis, hirsuta? = P. pedemontana

[Ewelina Wajgert]

5. Primula spectabilis, hirsuta? = P. pedemontana

Thank you Franz.

As always, you are reliable in ID plants

1. Senecio
2. The way from Colle del Nivole
3. Who knows latin name? Cliff indentified below as Lotus corniculatus
4. Silene alpina
5. Linaria alpina
6. Not all of us felt up to walk round the Lake Serru.
7. Rhododendron

[Ewelina Wajgert]

You must have made many kilometers??

Luit,
We have made 3902 km from Cracov to Cracov. I found now account of kilometers and fuel.

[ranunculus]

Looks like Lotus corniculatus, Ewelina, but I haven't been to that particular area?

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Looks like Lotus corniculatus, Ewelina, but I haven't been to that particular area?

Thank you, Cliff. I knew only polish name.

[Tony Lee]

I think you are right Cliff,Is it the same species that grows here in the U/k ?,we used to know as egg and bacon as kids,probably as some of the petals had a red streak,not seen it for years.

[Maggi Young]

Bird's foot trefoil.... Lotus corniculatus.... one of the prettiest wild flowers we have in the UK, I think, and much overlooked

[Lvandelft]

You must have made many kilometers??

Luit,
We have made 3902 km from Cracov to Cracov. I found now account of kilometers and fuel.

Well Ewelina, that makes about 200 Km a day in the Alps though.
Good to have your bed with you then.

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Well Ewelina, that makes about 200 Km a day in the Alps though.

That makes the first day nearly 1000km to Berchtesgaden
The second nearly 400 km to Reschenpass
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Last day over 1000 km from Lindau to Cracovia
Now calculation looks differently. Sometimes we made 30-50km.
Below is itinerary

[Ewelina Wajgert]

1. Valnontey
2. Botanical Garden in Valnontey
3. Sempervivum
4. Nigritella
5. The field of Dryas octopetala
6. Myosotis alpestris
7. Myosotis alpestris
8. Gentiana verna
9. Rifugio Vittorio Sella

[Armin]

Ewelina,
thank you your showing these pictures - it is a great pleasure to see.

I believe the impressions caught are worth of it while sitting so long in the bus

[JohnnyD]

Clare & I have been debating 'where next?' - and new!
Having visited the alps only very briefly (about half a day ) some years ago it is now firmly back in the foreground.
We have friends in the Auvergne and in Vif (just south of Grenoble) who we would wish to visit and July seems to be the perfect time to combine all of it.
Thanks for the inspiration Ewelina - brilliant pics.

JohnnyD.

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Johnny,
You have chance to visit 2 parks du Vanoise e des Ecrins, in which I wasn't yet, although I had good intentions to see them.

1. Lake Loson in Gran Paradiso
2. Glacier Tribolazione
3. Pinguicula vulgaris
4. Orchis ?
5. Mont Blanc and its glacier
6. Sunrise in Val Veny with view on Mont Blanc massif
7. Val Veny, sunrise