An old monastery that is now owned and operated by the Bavarian Government. Quite out in the sticks, but the walk around the lake and the scenes are typical Bavarian; relaxed and calming. The pictures are quite representative of the opportunities here. If this type of scene, architecture and objects interests you then the visit
Claimed to be the “Longest” castle complex in the WORLD!? I don’t know if this is true, but it is long as the last picture shows. WIKI: “Burghausen Castle in Burghausen, Upper Bavaria, is the longest castle complex in the world (1051 m) […] Guinness World Record […]” It is actually a walled in collection
Back in June 2016 Karen and I went off for a mini-Break to Bad Reichenhall. While we were there she thought it was a good idea to drag me up a mountain...!
Königsplatz is an area north of the main station in Munich with ancient style architecture. Near here was the party headquarters for the Nazi Party in 1930’s-40’s Germany; and also two mausoleums each “housing” eight of the sixteen “martyrs” in the Munich Putsch. The party headquarters and the mausoleums are destroyed, although foundations are still
Similar to the Botanical Garden in Munich, the one in Jena is well stocked, the plants are well tended and the crowds are missing. That said as we visited a wedding party was using the venue for photography. The entrance price is super low. Unfortunately the Website is in German only, but the opening times
On the way to our holiday in the north of Germany, we stayed a couple of nights at Jena. This is a university town with the history of Carl Zeiss. Carl Zeiss and the optical museum were the reasons we chose this as the stop over. Testing the exhibits in the optical museum is where
My wife and I stopped over for an hour or so, on our way back from our summer hols. We didn’t plan on Helmstedt, but were amazed at the old buildings all over. Even the park house/park garage was built to reflect the style and be in keeping. The cafe we went to was Cafe
It seemed appropriate that while the Olympic Summer Games are on, I give you some of the images I have from from a walk I did in the Olympic Park in Munich. This was the venue of the Summer Olympics in ’72. This video covers a little bit of architecture and a little bit of
The plan this year (2016) was to go to the island of Madeira but having watched videos showing the rather hairy landings at Madeira’s airport, I chickened out. The wife being terribly disappointed needed an alternative that would pep up her spirits again, so Schleswig-Holstein (where she comes from) seemed the only viable alternative. The
The lake is large, sufficiently so as to have sailing yachts, ferries and even inhabited islands. One island has one of the stately homes of the now deceased King of Bavaria and the other has a nunnery.
