While it was the Great Rachel and the Great Arber in the Bavarian Forest last year, we decided for the Brocken mountain in the Harz this autumn holiday. With at least 1141 meters it is the highest peak of northern Germany. Mists and fogs shroud it up many days of the year, Goethe and Heine could not resist its charm, in times of the GDR declared as prohibited area and nowadys destination of thousands of mountaineers. The landlord of our holiday apartment recommended a path away from the crowd on a wild brook which led up to the Brocken through beautiful forests. Only in the last quarter of the distance we had to walk on the main trail together with plenty of hikers. The mists were invisible on that day and so we were more lucky than the writer of this guestbook entry in Brockenhaus: " Viele Steine, müde Beine, Aussicht keine, Heinrich Heine."
A return trip by the Harz railway would certainly have been interesting, but because of the exorbitant fares for humans and dogs we had decided from the start for hiking and went downhill again. In the end we had walked a distance of 27 kilometers.
A few holiday snaps from our Brocken-tour as well as some more holiday hikes we want to show here as usual.
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Four proud years old today and there is not any day that we want to miss. Today we could certainly sing endless praise songs for you. Just one thing: We are happy that you are there. Happy birthday, Shadi.
Bea and her 7 brothers and sisters are 12 years old today. Congratulation to all of you and many further happy days and weeks and months together with your families.
On Sunday we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our dog and horse school in Großharthau, just called Hupfsch . Dog and horse lovers showed in many interesting and entertaining performances what they had practised within the past few weeks. Our Akitas showed their best side, too. We are going to show you a video with our Akita show here soon.
The photo gallery can only give a glimpse of the many things that were offered on this Sunday afternoon to all the visitors.
Finally we just can say: Happy birthday Hupfsch .
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And for 11 years we have been a part of it. Be invited to come and see a nice show of our dogs and horses on September 15th and 16th in Großharthau.
There will be a lot of interesting things to see as well as a little performance of our Akita group.
Due to default of good summer holiday photos because of a nasty ankle fracture, there is now this slightly different photo gallery. Our
doggies doing Akitas sport. Ready for the little sports competition are Shadi, Jane and Ginkou supported by Jürgen, Raina and Olaf. Quite motivated all three doggies gave their best , more or less, and presented themselves as real sporty Akitas.
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