In times past, December visits to Munich have been warmed by new fallen snow and the glowing booths of the Christkindlmarkt. Munich this year had yet to see snow and the temperatures of 7/8C and rain seemed somehow less festive.…
Atzinger Gästhaus – 12 December 2007 – 14:00 I happened across some notes I jotted down while enjoying some wonderful pork stew at this little restaurant. Munich is rather wet this year. It is a bit of a dampener –…
Was out to the kino to catch something that I could claim as some degree of exposure to the German media scene. The redlight district probably could have provided some special, 😉 experiences, but went the other way. What are…
Well … here I sit at the Flughaffen Frankfurt. Its about 8am, and the flight was in a little ahead of schedule at 6:45am. No sleep, but then I decided that that would be best in the end and forewent…
Eamonn pointed me to press release on a rather jarring new TV channel offering in Germany. Etos TV Mourning Channel is a 24/7 broadcast of video obituaries, short videos of the deceased as well as documentaries on cemeteries and on…
As the weatherman forecasts that the temperature will reach its hottest thus far this year (28C is warm enough for me), I am linking to the remnants of a trip journal to Munich during winter 1998. The HTML is a…
(if this image is just a pretty palace, click refresh to reload the animated gif and enjoy a quick look at the rebuilding of the schloss) I am always both fascinated and charmed to see an older building lovingly restored…