Großer Alpsee — Attraction in Immenstadt im Allgäu

Luhrmann’s continent-size epic, “Australia,” isn’t the greatest story ever — it’s several dozen of the greatest stories ever told, “The African Queen,” “Gone With the Wind” and “Once Upon a Time in the West” included. A pastiche of genres and references wrapped up — though, more often than not, whipped up — into one demented and generally diverting horse-galloping, cattle-stampeding, camera-swooping, music-swelling, mood-altering widescreen package, this creation story about modern Australia is a testament to movie love at its most devout, cinematic spectacle at its most extreme, and kitsch as an act of aesthetic communion.

Mr. Luhrmann’s use of culturally degraded forms both here and in earlier films like “Moulin Rouge” doesn’t register as either a conceptual strategy or a cynical commercial ploy or some combination of the two, as it can with art world jesters like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami, who have appropriated kitsch as a (more or less) legitimate postmodern strategy. Instead it feels — feeling being paramount in all of Mr. Luhrmann’s films — like a sincere cry from the swelling, throbbing heart, a true expression of self. And while that self and its gaudy work may be stitched together from the bits and pieces of pop culture — the son of a movie-theater owner, Mr. Luhrmann grew up worshiping at the altar of Hollywood — they are also wholly sincere.

Sincere, if also sometimes confused and confusing: though there is no denying the scope and towering ambition of “Australia,” which was largely shot on location in the outback, it can be difficult to gauge Mr. Luhrmann’s intentions, or rather his level of self-awareness. The film begins with some text that scrolls importantly across the screen, immediately setting the uncertain tone with some (serious?) twaddle about Australia as a land of “adventure and romance.” Before you have a chance to harrumph indignantly about the oppression of the Aborigines (or sneer at the country’s early imported criminal population), the text has skipped to the topic of “the stolen generations,” the children of indigenous peoples who, from the 19th century well into the 20th, were forcibly separated from their cultures by white Australians in the name of God and...

A very nice and calm place to visit if you want to combine hiking with relaxing. The lake is incredibly beautiful and you can enjoy the silence of the nature around it. You can also rent a boot and sail on the lake. Some beautiful mountains surround the place and offer real opportunities to go hiking while enjoying the splendid views. There are also some local restaurants where you can enjoy different types of cuisines, cafes and even a mini-golf place. Not far from there you can enjoy the longest toboggan run in Germany and the biggest climbing...

Der See ist wirklich schön und groß, durch die rundum angrenzenden Berge ein absoluter Blickfang. Direkt am See werden verschiedene Aktivitäten angeboten wie ein Hochseilgarten, mehrere Spielplätze, ein Bottsverleih und vieles mehr. Das Parken kostet hier 2 Euro pro Stunde. Ich hatte mich für den 11km "langen" Rundweg um den Alpsee entschieden. Die erste Hälfte verläuft noch direkt am See entlang, jedoch unterbrochen von mehreren kleinen Waldstücken/Bäumen, die einem ab und an die Sicht versperren, dennoch macht die erste Hälfte Spaß und man bekommt viele tolle Bilder. Leider ist die zweite Hälfte des Rundwanderweges quasi nicht vorhanden, man muss nämlich direkt an der Landstraße entlang laufen, jedoch gibt es hier nicht einmal einen Feldweg oder Fußweg und an manchen Stellen muss man die Landstraße überqueren, weil man nicht mehr die Möglichkeit hat, auf der Wiese zu laufen. Zum überqueren gibt es ebenfalls keine sichere Möglichkeit. Somit muss man eigentlich den gekommenen Weg wieder zurück laufen, was für mich vorher aber nirgends ersichtlich war, daher ein Stern Abzug in der Bewertung. Alles in allem aber ist der See für einen kleinen Ausflug recht schön und man hat einen...