We went to Austria last weekend, to find the snow (it still hasn’t arrived properly down here) and for a long over due catch up with friends staying in the area. Our home for the night was in Saalfelden (on the edge of Berchtesgaden), a gorgeous dorf of Heidi style dimensions… There seems to […]
Travel
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Tokyo Door, 2013 “Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.” Guy de Maupassant So, that’s that then… The last of the decorations have been packed away, the loyal and beautiful (it (almost) didn’t drop a single needle!) Christmas tree has been […]
The Fraueninsel….
The Fraueninsel is a small thriving island in the middle of Lake Chiemsee. I imagine it’s beautiful to visit whatever the season, but for just 6 days of the year, it is also the setting of a truly unique Bavarian Christmas Market – reputed to be one of the most romantic and atmospheric too… […]
Tollwood By Night…
Tollwood by Night… Because we had such a great time there during the day, we had to go back to see it when the sun goes down! And this is what it looks like… Tollwood is open until the 23rd December Mon-Friday 2pm-1am and on weekends from 11am-1am.
A Trip to Tollwood
Held twice yearly (once in mid-Summer, and now in the depths of Winter) on the same site as Oktoberfest, Tollwood is a massive cultural festival in Munich. Do not confuse this, the winter version with a traditional Munich Christmas Market however, as although it has bazaar stalls aplenty, Tollwood feels like anything but (and although […]