Benchmark

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  • Competitor

    I really believed we are the only ones writing about benches.  How could I? Benches are after all perfect places to see and to be seen. To think and reflect. To talk and connect. So finally I found the one having similar thoughts about benches. And what a nice name to guide Travellers with benches…

  • BBB – Bavarian Busstop Bench

    On a Sunday afternoon walk south of Munich, close to Holzkirchen we found this very basic bench. A tree trunk with a plank on it in front of an obviously newly build wooden fence. In fact it turned out that it is a bus-stop-bench for school kids. Could well be that the owner of the…

  • DIY – Make your own bench

    Now, this is something completely new on this blog. Have you ever thought about to make your own bench. Taking hammer, nail and wood in your own hands? Here it is. Check it out, if you can make your own bench.

  • Designer Bench

    After not having contributed for a while and seeing the bench community growing by the month, I felt obliged to add a bench from a different genre. A bench, which might never provide a view towards mountains or anything nature. I didn’t find it while hiking or jogging. I found it while surfing. Do not…

  • Easter Lakes (Osterseen) – Ivy bench

    South of Munich there are a couple of lakes. A bit further south of the famous Starnberger Lake you can find the Osterseen (Easter Lakes). This is a moor area with more than 20 small lakes, created during the last ice age when the glaciers were melting (well, unfortunately they still are melting) Every now and then you…

  • Why I like this Cafe!

    OI have been for holidays in the far north-east of Thailand. I have been countless times in this region called Isaan. Isaan is a large plain area of Thailand, about 100 km to the east and you will be in Cambodia, about 100 km to the north and you will end up in Laos. The village…

  • Alpe de Siusi X – Yoshiatsu Nagatani

    Finally, the last bench of the Alpe di Siusi bench series. It is another bench dedicated to a person. Also this one is pretty close to the cable car station in Compatsch on Alpe di Siusi. A nice wooden bench with a traditional wooden crox behind. The thing which made me really curious was the name…

  • Alpe de Siusi IX – Kathy Reno

    It is not unusual that names are officially graved in benches. Very often it is that someone donates or “buys” a bench and his name is then mentioned on the bench. Or someone else dedicates a bench for you. At the end of one of our hikes on Alpe di Siusi, not far away from the…

  • What a pitty – Those 2 benches are looking in the wrong direction

    Almost every Sunday morning I am having a ride with my bike to the almost quaint West Coast Park in Singapore. Almost quaint, because for a certain stretch the park is sandwiched between the Pasir Panjang Harbour and the West Coast Highway. So expect a little noise from both, as big lorries are moving around…

  • Bench behind the Mountain

    This bench was found in Bariloche. Bariloche is a town in the province of Rio Negro, at the foot of the “Anden” in the south of Argentina. Many years ago the town was called “Vuriloche” by the Indios. “Furi” means “behind” and “che” means “People”. You could translate the meaning as “the people behind the…

  • Singapore Park – Bench House

    Singapore is famous for cleanliness. This is something one can experience everywhere and of course in the parks of Singapore as well. Singapore’s parks are neat, clean and convenient. I imagine such kind of parks in Munich or any other European metropolis and they had to put a fence around it and charge an entrance…

  • Benches from the Past

    Recently I had the chance to visit one of the remote temple areas in Vietnam. The ruines looked a bit like the famous temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, but seemed to be much smaller. It also appeared to me that the site was hit by bombs during the Vietnam war in the 60s and…

  • Bench disappeared at Kampenwand

    Here ist a picture of a bench on the “Kampenwand”, a well known place for hikers in southern Bavaria. The bench invites us to look toward the Austrian Mountains. The funny thing with this bench was, that we hiked a little further and when returning back to this bench an hour later, it was gone. This was…

  • Elbigenalp

    What a coincidence to come around the corner, tired from hiking along the Lechweg in the hot sun since some hours and suddenly finding a place to rest in the cool shadow. Shadow that didn’t last for long –  it even  seemed to wait for us….  

  • Formarinsee

    Then of course the exciting bench above the tiny lake “Formarinsee”. The place the Formarinsee connects a little creek running out of another lake, the Spullersee, is called the “source” of the river Lech. Here you see the bench that let us rest and enjoy the beautiful panorama above the Formarinsee on 1793m altitude.

  • L for Lechweg bench

    Another bench grabbed my attention. It is a boring typical wooden bench you can find everywhere in the mountain area. Except that something very small, an attached metal sign made it to a very special proud bench. It is the little sign of the “Lechweg”, a letter “L” that you find on trees or stones…

  • Alpe di Siusi VIII – Via Crucis last cross

    Following the Via Crucis further towards the Plattkofel you will naturally get to the last cross of the via crucis. As with other via crucis, the last cross is the biggest, highest, most beautiful etc. Same here. However, as the earlier one with the really basic bench already indicated – the stations were not very colorful…

  • Three Big Brothers

    Since some time I do some running exercise. Mainly on the weekends. My usual running course is in Munich along the Isar which is a view meters away from my home. I am doing that now already for some time and the course is more or less the same, at least the first part. The…

  • Alpe di Siusi V – Wood on rocks

    Continuing the hike up to the Schlern Haus the trail is getting steeper and smaller, trees and plants getting less, rocks become the dominant material around around you. At one place beside the small rocky trail it looks like a wooden bench has grown out of the steep rock wall beside you. A simple tree…

  • Alpe di Siusi IV – The fallen trees

    Continuing the trail from Compatsch to the Schlern House, gaining some hight, in one of the turns of the trail you see something, which in the first view just looks like two fallen trees. Well, of course you can use a fallen tree to sit on, but you would not call it in the first instant…