The world was beautiful in 2025

The world was beautiful in 2025

Yes, it is already January 2026, but one can never have too many summaries.
2025 passed somehow very quickly, yet I managed to visit a handful of truly enchanting places.
They were moments of respite in the everyday rush — a rush towards what, exactly?
A difficult question. Let us leave it unanswered.

Below is a list of my small wonders of 2025.
And may there be at least as many in the year that has just begun.

The Sowie Mountains.
A place filled with silence, history, mysteries and beautiful nature.
I will return — all the more gladly, as it lies very close to home.

Val di Fiemme and Val di Sole.
The Dolomites are the Dolomites — their grandeur never fails to impress me.
And their closeness, their almost tangible presence while skiing, makes these valleys among my favourite winter places.

The Tatra Mountains.
I no longer know which visit this was, but this time — between winter and spring.

Limone.
A return to Lake Garda, lemon-scented, full of flavour.

Gdańsk.
Paths so well trodden, and yet the desire to return remains just as strong.

The Gorce and the Beskid Mountains.
The beauty of nature, places less obvious, perhaps still partly undiscovered.
And may they remain so.

Glaciers.
Kitzsteinhorn and Stubai — the highest points of the Salzburg and Tyrol regions.
Where altitude and space take your breath away.
Literally and metaphorically.