Day 47 Colour makes the day!

Saturday 05/05/2018 Karma Bavaria Schliersee Room 210 (3 SZ)

Another day of tripping, the breaky before we headed off was lovely, cold meats. Cheeses, different breads, pasties, boiled eggs and cereals... so all in all a great choice... had what was needed... before we had headed down for breaky we had talked with Kristian and James, Kate was out... Then she came in just as we were finishing up! James actually looked at us on the phone today, first time he seemed to connect us on the phone with our voices.... he is growing so fast... all much better their end..over all their horrible flu’s they all had it in and off for about 10 weeks, very nasty flu!
Then once I had breaky I called Jill who was at Mum and Dads to talk with mum since she come out of hospital... she looks pretty good really... Gav had arrived down at M&D to puck up Jill..... they all seemed great....
Once finished I hoped in the car with John and off we speed, through the Black Forest... it really is a thick forest with all different types of Fir trees 🌲 in a way very pretty.... seeing the small villages and flowing streams as we zip by, heaps and heaps of peoples cars parked up at places you could see were for walking, lots of push bikers and more motorbike riders today than we have seen previously.

The colours of the green, green glassed paddocks with a carpet of white, yellow and sometimes a sprinkling of purple flowers 💐 looked so so pretty... as I said to John probably a pest to the farmer but looks amazing. Brightly painted buildings, as we go from town to town, especially the big huge buildings that were big industry many were painted with bold strips you couldn’t miss them... one thing I did notice was the amount of big name industry that seemed to have their factories in smaller towns or smaller cities... instead of it all based in the major centres they seemed to have spread them around, sharing the way the workforce is placed across the country... I think our government has finally realised this point now also by moving some big factories out to more rural towns, it takes the burden of too many people in major centres and shares the job force opportunities around the country... and that does appear what has occurred here.... however I am only speculating 🤔 I could be wrong.

Anyway enough made up from my imagination, on with the journey... The highways today have been pretty good, again we had to stick to them, to get to Schliersee early enough, as it was it took us about 6 hrs of travelling... one of the things we noticed while travelling today, was just how clean it is in Germany, not like the UK where rubbish was just everywhere... on road sides in gutters, where ever we went rubbish was just thrown out and around, was sad to see just how much was thrown around, like people had no pride in their country!

Some villages we spotted looked really small, but they always gave a massive church, with big tall steeples, some pointy others like a Russian style nob on the top of their steeple. Then as we get closer to Schliersee we start to see the painted pictures on each house. It is a common site in this part of the German country sure...

We finally got here a bit like coming home, our sales guy from the club who is hoping we will buy more from them... he will be sad to know we won’t, well he greeted us... a bit miffed when he realised we had been here a few times, and we had met his Boss Chris a number of times.... I think he thought we were newbees, if your new you don’t know how they work trying to sell you more packages, as we have been there and done it heaps he won’t get do the big sell... Poor fellow.. anyway we settle in our room is great has a balcony and has heaps of room.... we had asked for a unit so we could self cater and it would really be easier to do, but if they can’t we are happy with this room, just means self catering will be difficult as it’s just a hotel room.... they did say they would try and get us one, but we will see how it pans out, happy with our lot here’s!

They invited us to free drinks tonight from 7-8pm, so after a rest off we went, meeting a couple of ladies from England, a Mum and her daughter... they were there on the Mums, mums points.... and have been doing that for years.... also meet an Sri Lankan his Spanish wife both drs from Scotland, interesting characters.... plus met 5 younger guys and 1 older guy all new salesmen to a Karma, watch out people they are there to hone their new skills to sell holidays etc.... lucky we have our wits about us and know the routine... in saying that they all seemed pretty genuine guys out to make a living, but it’s how they make the living that’s a pain...

So here we are ready for a good rest, but also to see a few things we haven’t before.... Just have to go through the routine sales pitch then we are free to do our own thing. Mon at 11 will be our day of reckoning it would seem...

The views are unreal the air feels clean and the time here will be lovely I am sure!Read more