We don’t get.our room cleaned for various reasons, the first being a cleaner stole our computer; secondly we don’t clean at home every day; the Ukrainian cleaner woman still gets paid and it pays to fight climate change. I believe that along with the dozen very quiet Ukrainian men whom we had a kebab with tonight, the government provides a room for them. I’m not sure how that compares with the also non-engaging (for [...]
We walked up the platform for the short trip to Mount Hohenpeissenberg and said hullo to a train-waiting man. He appeared to have seen better days by his clothes, his demeanour and his voice, all of which seemed a little frayed. I walked on trying to warm my frozen hands. As I walked back, a more less frayed (younger in his forties) man walked by with his dog. He spoke a little English but [...]
The mountain is for tomorrow. We are in Peiting but it was all about Shongau today. Rain was predicted for the afternoon so we packed our ‘rather be dry gear’. The ‘half as huge’ as the Danube river (that would rather be wet) flowed gently beside us and was yet another colour - not muddy, not clear, but a soft green. Earlier on we had followed a much smaller river which tucked itself in beside [...]
Our landlord Albert takes a while to remember to be nice and this morning was the same pattern. I asked for towels only and not to clean the room. Once again he seemed to be unhappy because I wanted to do him, his cleaning person and the planet a favour. He looked querulous as I asked him if I could get anything for him, like I thought he possibly needed a coffee and after taking [...]
Well there was more to this river, a lot more water, and if it was an actor it could play many parts. I went down to the river at 0700 as I thought I might see it catching some sun. But that was not to be as a mountain was the first to keep it away and then the clouds came with the same effect. No big deal but it would have shown the actors [...]
A little creek washes itself as it splashes gently against the rocks clearly seen through its crystal clear water. It makes small sounds as though trying not to be noticed, but as it swings past an eatery to its side and up a bit, it is noticed. It is watched by customers who sit to watch, they like creeks, they want to monitor the comings and goings of this gentle soul as they sip, oh [...]
I took my usual early morning walk out of town, my weather vanes (fingers) telling me it was close to zero at 0700. On my return we chatted to other patrons who were, as we were now getting used to, very friendly. They were all doing other things such as driving round the beautiful countryside, on holidays or in retirement. It was now off to Harburg via Dinklesbuhl, a delightfully quaint town where we spent [...]
A last early morning walk. There are eight different roads leading out of this Rothenburg village of Schienfeld, I have been along six of them so I’ll be able to complete all roads out by 0900. The road I took at 0730 took me over some low undulating land along a main road, then past a quarry and on to a small village. People were either having the day off, couldn’t care less about work [...]
Well it’s raining and it’s 100% as per the weather bureau’s strange language. Maybe I’m being too hard and what they really mean is ‘you may have rain for one hour or you could have it all day, and in that case, their prediction was correct, the same goes for 30% for example. But however they do it, today was true to the letter of the word. But a boy’s gotta do what a [...]
‘Dog friendly’ was the sign at reception. I’m not too sure whether it was ‘kids friendly’ also because there were none there which to me often changes the dynamics, but out of fifty tenants there was no-one under forty. I wondered about this at Lily’s 10/10 hotel but it may have been 9/10 for some if a child began to scream. It was a small lift and a man and his dog could not [...]
