From the giant people in my previous post, to teeny tiny people in this! Not many people know that Playmobil is Bavarian, its creator Hans Beck came up with the idea 40 years ago, after an oil shortage made smaller toys more economic. The little plastic figures that featured so highly in many of […]
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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 […]
Mycology Musings – WaldWelt
The weekend before last was just stunning. Unseasonably high temperatures tempted even the grumpiest of us (I had a chest infection thing, and the Small People having just broken up for half term just wanted to laze) out into the great outdoors to make the most of it. This time we ventured to the other […]
Pushing the Boundaries at Boulderwelt
Back to the subject of a recent “Silent Sunday” of mine…. Granted a skirt and tights might not be your usual climbing uniform, but having dropped her little brother off at a party here and quite fancying having a go herself, the Eight Year Old threw caution to the wind… Boulderwelt is a massive indoor […]
Abbey Appreciation…
Take the small and winding path upwards through the sculpture park (guarded by giants of the horse chestnut variety), then onwards past the inviting restaurant on the left and the beautiful bier garten on your right (closed for the winter sadly – but there’s always next year!). Follow the cobbles onwards and upwards, until you […]
All Things Gourd…
Having lived here for almost two years now (I know, where has that gone?), the one thing I love about the place is how Bavarians find something really special in almost every season… The Winter is obviously all about gearing up to Christmas, and the mass of Christkindlemarkts that line the streets is of course […]
Eskimo Dreaming… (Iglu Dorf – Zugspitze)
Sleeping in an Iglu on top of Germany’s tallest mountain..
Biding Time – Spaghetti Eis
The Five Year old has never been overly fussed when it comes to ice cream. I would go far as to say he’s actually incredibly fussy about it. He can’t be fobbed off with any old muck, and quite strangely would rather not have it at all most of the time… Unless that is you’re […]
Beautiful Berchtesgaden
The amount of our visitors who have expressed surprise at the beauty Bavaria has to offer, and have said that they had always previously thought of Germany as a grey and uninspiring country, will never cease to amaze me. And a little like my determination to stamp out the myths that all English Food is […]
Tree Top Walking…
The subject of my Sunday Photo a couple of weeks back – The World’s Longest Tree Top Walk, or the rather tongue twisting Der Baumwipfelpfad as it’s known here… I had hoped to mention it before now, but sometimes life gets in the way – plus we have been busy gallivanting before school started – but […]