Germany - Munich

 2025

Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd May

We spent the weekend with Richard and his family in Gauting near Munich.  Richard was a lodger with us at about the same time as Steffen whilst studying Neurosciences at the University of Sussex.  On Saturday, after a traditional Bavarian breakfast of white sausage and pretzel bread, we went south of Munich to Lake Tegensee and the beginning of the Alps.  We had a walk up to a waterfall, it was cool but sunny.  We popped into the monastery church at Tegensee where there was the beautiful sound of plainsong being sung somewhere out of sight.  We then had a Bavarian meal with beer (of course) at the Brewhouse next door.  It was incredibly noisy and a fit of sneezing broke out on the table next to ours.  A group of men were taking snuff!  Now that’s a sight I haven’t seen for years!

Sunday 24th May

After breakfast we went to a neighbouring town to watch Hanna perform gymnastics in a local schools competition.   Our time with Richard, Hellen, Luise and Hanna was over all too soon and in the afternoon took the train to Salzburg.  We have a very comfortable apartment near the centre.  There was an Afghan takeaway nearby so it seemed fitting to buy our meal from there as we won’t be able to return to the country on our journey.