The soundtrack to today has been mini-avalanches of snow sliding off the roof. It’s amazing how loud it is, and it’s also amazing how relentless winter has been here this week. Lots of sliding about in cars, and not many signs of Spring just yet! A few pictures from another kind of sliding at beautiful […]
Bavaria
Sunday Photo – Psychedelic Eggs
Psychedelic Eggs! This is how they sell boiled eggs here in Germany. The closer it gets to Easter, the more colourful they get!
A Trip to the Tracht Shop…
“Of course you’re going to need to get a dirndl”. “A what sorry?” “A dirndl, you know the kind of dress that you see everyone wearing at the Oktoberfest?”. “Just to wear to Oktoberfest? What if I don’t go to Oktoberfest?” “Nooooo Emma, you will be wearing a dirndl lots of times. In your […]
The Cooper’s Dance…
The main reason that I was hanging around a snowy Munich square, was that I was waiting to witness the spectacle that is the Schäfflertanz (or The Cooper’s Dance), that takes place just before Carnival time once every seven years! Thought to originate in the 1500’s after the plague visited and decimated the local population, […]
Sunday Photo – Snow Bikes
Snow Bikes – Munich