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Remarkable Benches Around The World.

  • 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…

  • The Bench in front of Paddy Hills

    I liked the look and charm of this bench in front of a new restaurant in Pasir Panjang. Restaurants are not the strength of Pasir Panjang, good once are rather rare. Pasir Panjang is a suburb of Singapore and usually spoilt for choices when you are looking for life in a park. But this little…

  • 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…

  • 5 Reasons to Look with different eyes on benches

    If someone would have asked me one year back, why it makes sense to write about benches, I would have scratched my head and referred him or her to at least a counsellor. I am not sure if I still would do the same as of today. There are valid reasons why it could make…

  • 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…

  • Tegernsee

    This bench is frequently used, since one doesn`t have to walk too far to get there.

  • 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…

  • Lechwoodswing

    There is a fairly new constructed hiking path in the “Allgäu”, in the south of Germany. The hiking route leads 125 km through a beautiful mountain area. The path leads from the source of the river Lech, upon 1800m of hight, to the waterfall in Füssen, close to the Forggensee, a huge lake into which…

  • 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 VII – Via Crucis bench

    Another hike you can make around Alpe di Siusi is from the Cable Car Florian at the bottom of the Plattkofel mountain up to the peak of the Plattkofel. Shortly after you left the Cable Car the hike starts and the first part is a Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross. These kind of…

  • Alpe di Siusi VI – Horseteethpass 2490

    One possibility to get back to the Alpe di Siusi plateau from the Schlern House is via the Tierser Alm and descending from there. To get to the “gate” for the descent you pass by the Tierser Alm (of course you will have a stop inside and by the way, the Tierser Alm is a…

  • 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…

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