Day 59 Bavaira Our Time is Ending

Friday 18/05/2018 (16 SZ) Karma Bavaria Schliersee Room 210

Woke up and at present feeling much better than when I awoke yesterday... Drugs must be working...
today is our last offical day in Bavaria, we head to Budapest in the AM... and it will have to be an early start we have 7 + hours of driving and have to be there by 4pm to meet the guy whose Apartment we have hired through booking.com, I don’t mind hiring units or apartments through Booking, but they come with so many conditions compared to a little old hotel or motel room... a list a mile long has arrived with each unit we have had about do’s and don’ts... don’t me wrong staying in an apartment is so much easier than a motel room to self cater, but they really do have so many conditions it makes you wonder if it’s worth the hassle.... anyway we are so suck it up...

Our time here has been just what we planned a good rest and a slow down and that is exactly what we have done... sightseeing none stop is exhausting and after 40 odd days of it in the UK we were totally hadit... in much need of some down time, planning to stay here after the UK really has worked out just perfectly...

The peace this area offers is really like nowhere else we have ever stayed other than when we have been on the cruise boats at the Whitsundays... gosh that’s years ago... but utter peace. Just you and the ocean as long as it was calm and fortunately it was most of the time. So what’s the next chapter of our trip is to bring I am not sure, but the pace is about to fasten a bit again...

We actually finish our trip extremely well here, meeting up with our new Indian Friends Linette and Avalon... we met them at the bar for drinks 🍷 at 5pm .....we had planned to head to the Bavarian Beer Festival we discovered was on... we accidentally came across the same one 4 yrs ago and had a ball but with the plan to meet up we thought we would go later! Well thought was it, as we got talking and enjoying their company, time flew and before we knew it, it was after 7pm and we all decided to check out the little bar near the Main Street,only once there realised they didn’t serve food. The young bar manager suggested we try out the Pizza place, Our friends had, had an early dinner but we hadn’t eaten, so off we set for the Italian restaurant...and it was packed. but great food 🥘, great company. The waitress was Armenia 🇦🇲 I think that’s where she said, she spoke 6 different languages and was a real card. So all in all we enjoyed our meal, drinks and company.. then we started to head home, when Avalon suggested we hav a night cap, so back to the little bar... which by this stage was packed also... we managed to squeeze next to a table of local ladies and one bloke about 10 in all... all out for a good night! So we ordered our drinks then commence to have a conversation with the locals... some could speak excellent English others not so! But I managed to sit next to Peter and we through much broken English had a fantastic conversation.... it turned out to be a great night even though we didn’t get to the festival... which was a shame as they are unreal... but Peter and I ended up in deep conversation about his job, he is a Kindy special needs teacher aid... he was it turns out the barman at a Karma for 4 yrs, but wanted a better job, more satisfaction....he is still working out if it’s what he really wants... but his other passion was growing veggies 🌽, he and 10 other friends hire a few acres and grow a large amount of their own produce. He really finds this very therapeutic... we even got to discuss not in depth.. about Christianity... he like so many in the area are bought up Catholic and it has a big impact on their life, he feels this is rubbish, but that Jesus offers more... I so wanted to discuss this more in-depth with him, but their was a language barrier even though I worked out all this info... all in all a great conversation with a total stranger... he was with his friend and her dog, they both lived together as friends around the corner and had a great garden he told us... the dog was with us in the bar as dogs do in Europe or Germany anyway... very spoilt dog, but you could see it had a great Nature.. ...Linette struck up a conversation with the girl next to her who was from Austria but live in Hausham the next village with her husband and 3 children... her husband works in Munich but it’s cheaper to live where they do with a bit of space for her children... she loves her heritage and finds the Germans very cold, even though she lives here and mixes with them... she feels they are very cut off and very hard... compared to Austrians.

Life is so different isn’t it, the background you come from has such an impact on who you are as a person... even if you think you might have escaped it...

Our time came to an end as interesting as it was, we had a big da tomorrow a long trip to Budapest, and Avalon had the flu. My drugs seemed to work for me... thank goodness.. So goodnight and well our precious time in Bavaria has come to an end... a great 2 weeks we have had... as always when we come here it’s peaceful and rejuvenating.Read more