The 1st summer day in Merano

Here it is the 1st summer day in Merano!!
And this blog celebrates its first birthday!!!

My curious furry model

Today I had the chance to walk with two friends of mine and another friend they are allowed to walk out on Sundays: Willy :)
The curious white doggy loves to walk on the Tappeinerweg, he has enjoyed the sun and has been a gorgeous model for me today :)


My springomether keeps growing, the only thing missing now is... the flowers!! :( Maybe I did something wrong...
-28 days to my beloved spring!

The springomether | another week passed :)

It's amazing how many things can happen in one single week... You can be totally happy, angry, relaxed, sad, enthusiastic, disappointed, hopefull and even grow a little bit :)

After a snowing Friday and a strange Saturday, the sun kissed Merano today, it was so lovely that you could even walk without your jacket! The best time for enjoying Merano peacefully! A friend of mine took her mum here from Verona to spend a well-being week-end at the Therme, with massages, health packages and nice food.
I bought them two Faschingskrapfen with apricot jam, an unrenouceable delicacy in February!
-42 days to my beloved spring!

Summer is back again :)

As I went lunch break yesterday, I couldn't believe at what I was seeing and feeling! The sun was shining bright in the sky and I could feel 30 degrees on my skin! We are at the end of September and it's still summer :) Cool :) So I went to the gym and decided that I couldn't stay indoors. I went jogging :)
I made my usual route, from the winter Promenade to the Gilf and up to the Tappeiner. I couldn't believe I had to shorten my trip because it was too hot...! I felt lucky :)

The castle on the hill is the Zenoburg.

Sunny September

The days are finally getting fresher now. As nearly every year September is wonderfully sunny :) It happens to have rainy and windy nights, after those the day appears totally clean - washed by the pattering water - and colourful.
During the day you can still walk in your T-shirt under the sun and enjoy the bright green still dominating the landscape.
My favourite trail for walking and jogging is the beloved Tappeinerweg, you can reach it in 10 min. by walking and in a few steps you already watch over Merano and its valleys. An amazing gift of the Austrina doctor, botanist and anthropologist Franz Tappeiner, who made it possible to have so many Mediterranean plants cropped in Merano. Probably the only city in the alps with its own palm trees, cacti and cluster figs.
On Saturady I enjoyed a nice walk and watched the many flowers, grapes and apples growing in the sun... Cool :)

A new situation again...

After two weeks of inexorable sun in Rhodos, here I am in Merano again and... guess what? It's raining!! I can't believe it! I wasn't really thinking of doing great things during my last holiday days here, but this weather is rather all but stimulating... :(
I hope for it to stop the next days :) Merano will be animated by a Long Tuesday in the center and a Summer night on the Promenade.

It's raining man!

As I came back from Innsbruck 2day, I hoped it wouldn't be raining so much in Merano too. It's amazing to be able to cross from a nation into another, so different one, and having 10 degrees difference after an hour and a half trip by car! As I arrived, it was hot and just silently, gently drizzling on the trees, what doesn't impede plenty of leaves to fall so much earlier than they should... And now it's getting heavier and heavier, with some strong wind gust from time to time... I've brought my sunflower into the dining room again and hope it will see the sun again 2morrow.