Day 51 The long road around the Lake!

Thursday 10/05/2018 Karma Bavaria Schliersee Room 210 (8 SZ)

Today is a public holiday, one lady called it a Bank holiday, we read it’s called Ascension day, 40 days after Christ’s rose, when he ascended into heaven... The Germans celebrate this day with a public holiday..
It is also their Father’s Day today as well... Mothers Day will be this Sunday the same as ours...

So in the village all the shops are shut except for Cafe’s and Coffee houses, also Bob the train has come none stop to bring the tourist visiting again.... plus the free bus! So at every turn there were people once again wandering the village and around the Lake... my goodness what a busy circuit it is today compared with the last time we walked around the 7k circuit.... couples from all ages, families, groups of people... many walking and many flying by on their bikes.....to be honest the bike rides were a bit dangerous how fast they were going past walkers. I was nearly bowled over a few times by them when I hadn’t heard them coming up behind me... of course they have right of way so if anything happened it would have been my fault. We managed to kill 3 hrs with the walk, I am so slow with taking pics along the route John could have done it in half the time it takes me... He Geocached around it... some he found, some he didn’t....half the fun is the looking...

I find the Germans very serious, only a few actually smile. They walk by very serious, it must be serious business this walking from the way they are when they go by us... only a few actually said anything, only a couple actually smiled... John read somewhere they don’t smile 😃, it’s a waste of time, only the Americans smile and their not particularly liked here we gather.... So you don’t smile. Wether it’s true or not I don’t know, but I do know hardly any smile....

So after our big walk I needed food, so we wandered through the village to the cafe by the water.... it was pretty packed but we managed to find a table... seems to be a different group running it now, the little platers of food certainly didn’t look as enticing as our last time here... John had a wiener and I asked for a bagel with it but he got a bread roll. I asked for a small cheese and meat platter but no they only do cheese, so I got cheese and blow me down if it wasn’t the stinky cheese I been trying to get away from.... John thought was I going over the top with how terrible it was until he tasted it... then said leave that I wouldn’t eat it... really... Least to say it was left.. terrible stuff ... we had bought slices and a block of it not realising how terrible it is...... Just has the worst flavour and strong stinky smell... I would say the Germans love 💖 it, but I am afraid 😦these Aussies don’t. So least to say we have quite a bit of it to get rid of from our fridge.....

The clouds were building all day, so with the threat of rain, we decided it was time to head back... it had sprinkled on us a few times on the walk, and at one stage I had to pull out the brolly...so rather than get wet we headed home.

I was a little tried after the big walk so had a little sleep, John headed fir a sauna to relive his aching body, he now has after bowls on a Tuesday... must be out of Nic I think 🤔 compared to when at home he put his body through the paces... I joined him in the jacuzzi after my rest... then back to get organised to go to the bar to chat with others tonight, after having last night in.

We actually ended up chatting to quite a few around the bar, bought a burger to share and ended up with a bit of a big night after all.... again interesting people around, mainly staff, we meet a couple if different guys, tonight one was the boss of them all an interesting character he was..... he is the one who looks fir new properties to buy and organises their sales... listen to his life story I am glad mine is a but ordinary.

Life can be interesting sometimes, especially when you hear other people’s story and we all have a story to tell.....Read more