Christmas Markets 2019

One more gloriously cool sunny day. After last nights reveling we slept late, breakfasted late, went for a lovely afternoon walk, dined in the hotel… Read More »Day 22 – Veg Day

We went to Dachau today. Everyone knows at least something about it. To see the scale of it, the scale of the depravity is awful.… Read More »Day 21 – Sobering

The reason for writing see, is that the details fade as time goes on – time measured in minutes in my case, and now it’s… Read More »Day 20 – Cycling

Beautiful, crisp, clear day to day. White frost on the park across the way and on the car rooves. We rug up and wander into… Read More »Day 19 – Golden

Konstanz was not bombed during the war. It’s on the Swiss boarder and they left all their lights on to fool the allies. It’s the… Read More »Day 18 – Mandrake

“We’ll play a little game I invented. One of us opens the atlas at random, sticks a pin in the open page, wherever it lands,… Read More »Day 17 – E856

Cool, clear morning. Four degrees today and nothin’ but blue sky. The hotel Suisse breakfast parlour is abuzz with guests this morning helping themselves to… Read More »Day 16 – Cathedral

Christmas phone hook-ups this morning. We saw too much of Colin, just the right amount of Jo, got a guided tour of the Meindl house-hold… Read More »Day 15 – Et maintenant on mange (and now we eat)

I discovered in the quiet of the morning, that somehow, be it through the pipes or vents, a muffled auditory conduit joins the floors –… Read More »Day 14 – Les toilettes n’est pas privé

Hard to recall yesterday when so much has transpired today. We’ll give it a crack. I got up for a shuffle in the rain, wandered… Read More »Day 12 & 13 – Piece de Resistance