More photos from Bavaria

David & Goliath mural o n house in Passau. House thought to originally belong to the Goliard family, hence name.

At Passua Castle overlooking the Danube
Ken & Margot Bilston, Michael  & Ulrike Korn, Alexander Jager, Christine Winterhalter 

Many film crews from this company were filming near the Cathedral in Passau

Passau cathedral. Two towers were rebuilt, one in 1074 and other in 1075!

Some photos from Bavaria

Large glass panel beside path to shop at Glasdorf.

Salt tower on Danube. Salt was considered white gold in
Medieval times.

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Christine Winterhalter, Michael & Ulrike Korn , Margot & Ken Bilston in cathedral square, Regensburg.

Niederwinkling, Regenberg, Arnbruck

We had a very relaxing last few days in Pertisau. My hip was still sore so didn’t  feel like doing a lot of skiing then!   It was much more of a holiday than usual. Friday was packing up ready to viait Ulrike Korn’s sister who lives in Niederwinkling. We have stayed with her twin brother Christoph and his wife, another Christine, many times . They live in the Black Forest and we will go across to see them on Thursday.
Niederwinkling is a small village of about 2,000 people and is north west of Munich fairly cloxe to both the Austrian and Czech Republic borders. Ulrike and Michael Korn had arrived from Leipzig about the same time as we arrived,  so lots of chat and catching up on family news then.!☺️
Sunday Ulrike had planned for us to go to Regensberg and hear the famous Domspatzen boys’ choir sing at the morning mass. Unfortunately the times were wrong, so we missed out on the choir but could see the huge cathedral and enjoyed wandering around this mediaeval town, which is now a UNESCO world heritage site! The cathedral even has statues of the “Devil” (in monk’s hood with droagon tail)and “Devil’s grandmother”(in monk’s hood also with dragon body) at the back of the cathedral, which was probably built in the 9th century. One city building had painting of David and Goliath on a side wall, possibly done about 1570’s,  The city is on the Donau, the Danube river, and we saw the old stone bridge built between 1135 and 1146. It channels the strongly flowing river through the supporting piers and would make going through with a barge pretty hazardous. This bridge is about 350m long and was considered a great wonder in post Roman world. The city was little damaged in WWII fortunately, so lots of the old city has been preserved. The museum is very good and we enjoyed strolling through it. Dinner back at Christine’s was another lovely social  event after an interesting day in Regensberg

Monday morning was time to head out to see the treetop walk at WaldwipfelWeg and enjoy the     sights across to Salzburg in the distance. Around the 1.3km walkway, 5-25m above ground, there were stuffed birds in glass display cases and when we pressed a button, we could hear the bird call. There were lots of these, representing the local birds. There was also a great walk through the forest with more displays. Near the restaurant was a snow covered large paddock, beside a small t-bar, and in it were alpacas, black faced sheep and other horned sheep-like animals feeding from tall feeder. The wallabies were not in sight, even though listed! There is also an upside down house which you can enter but we didn’t do so.
After a  snack, we headed to the Glasdorf at Arnbruck. This is an amazing  parkland, theme park.
Here there are beautiful glass figures, animals, pictures, and other abstract things. The colours were  wonderful but I resisted buying anything😇 A rest was then in order at our hotel before meeting with the others at Christine’s for a light meal and more chat!

Photos from Seefeld and Pertisau

From our room towards the Achensee, Pertisau. mountains surrounding the whole area.

Even find McCains in Pertisau

 

Phot of Margot, Ken, Christine Winterhalter and Michael

 Korn at top of tree top walk

From top of Kwrlwendel lift towards ski runs and mountains

Ken looking out at the ski trails at Pertisau

Seefeld and Pertisau

We arrived in Munich early morning after 2 flights from Australia. The first flight was awful with seats that hardly reclined so person in front was nearly in our lap when their seat was reclined. Seats were not comfortable either and I ended up having a sore back! The second flight was somewhat better.
After colecting our small car, an Opel Corsa, we packed things into it and headed off to Seefled. We had a room for one night before moving into the apartment for the next week. A few hours sleep was necessary before we started to look out for places etc.
 on Saturday we went across to the golf course and skied the 1.3km track there. I had a silly fall on the downhill slope at the start of the trail and bruised my hip😢 but we enjoyed soup for lunch afterwards and walked back to the hotel , going across the railway line and through the pedestrian area. That was an interesting stroll, seeing all the shops, bars and restaurants. All day Sunday and Monday morning were snowy so we took time to settle into the spacious apartment with wonderful mountain views.

Unfortunately , the cross country trails nearby were closed as preparations for the FIS titles starting on 19th Feb. Ken had carefully selected the hotel because of its proximity to the trails, but was foiled! 👎🏻Anyway, we caught the free bus down to Leutasch area to ski most days. ‘One day we skied from Obern back to the Alpenbad and I only opted out on the last downhill slope which had a sharp bend at the bottom 😮! I didn’t want to fall and hurt my hip again. Other days we skied around different trails, starting from the Alpenbad area, in both directions. One day, when I opted out, Ken went up to Wildmoos and enjoyed one of  the more challenging trails there.  We enjoyed going to various restaurants for dinner, always good food.

We left Seefeld and headed for Pertisau on Saturday 16th. for a week. We were welcomed with great big hugs from Martin Hauser on our arrival at the Gasthof Golfvilla. We caught up with his wife, Birgit later that day. We’ve had a real holiday here, skiing some days and just doing touristy things on others. Weather has been good with sunny warm days this week. One day Ken did the 7km black run to Tristenau and enjoyed stretching out on this more challenging trail. As snow was so good, Ken said it wasn’t really a black run that day. One day we took the cable car 🚡 to the top of the Karwendel ski slopes. We had coffee there looking out at the amazing mountains surrounding us. 😊. Yesterday we went up to the Rodlhutte by a large ute with covered tray and seating, described as a Tractor Tobaggan Express in brochures. The huge tyres had chains on, of course, and we were driven up a steep road to 1130m where the hut is built. Here we enjoyed gluwein and then goulash soup for lunch. Most of the people who go up there, come down the steep road on sleds 🛷. Apparently the sleds go very fast and corners can be challenging, according to a couple of the 50yr old men whom we’ve met here. Today it’s gently raining ☔️ so we’re packing up so we can leave  early for Niederwinkling.  Snow will be wet and slushy.  I can see the snow sagging on the nearby roof tops. Later this afternoon we’re chatting to the Hausers again, hoping they will actually come to Australia this year. Birgit is nervous 😟 about being away for 4 weeks, but not Martin, so we’ll  see what they decide.