Tillmann has gone to work before I get up and after a while Petra goes off with a friend to walk barefoot in the Alpine pastures as part of her (big?) birthday treat. I hope that someone has raked the path and that there are no cows about. Later, Jony and I agree that it would be unlikely for one man to ask another man to do the same, even if it was a big birthday.
We go into Munich by train to give the bikes a well earned rest. J&C go off to do the Deutches Museum and I take a tram to the Neue Pinakothek to look at early 20th century paintings. It is as much funds it sounds. On the way back I walk through a grandiose square where the National Socialist party liked to march it's troops. Nearby a museum is being constructed which will document the NS (Nazi) - hopefully in a 'how not to do things' sort of way. It opens in February 2014 in case you are interested.
I bump into J&C in another art gallery, this one recommended by Tillmann & Petra which is showing works by Nordic artists (Aus Dämmerung und Licht which I thinks means from twilight and light - doesn't sound so impressive in English does it). It has some rather good paintings.
We are now back at Tillmann's and will shortly go off to meet Andreas & Sabine Gerathewohl, partly as they said I must visit them when next in Munich (as they have stayed with us in Norfolk) and partly because I am curious to see their house which they have had built in his mother's garden by the lake. I am expecting posh.
We arrive at Andreas & Sabine's despite my leaving the motorway too early and we manage to follow our noses right to their house without having to ask anyone. We are greeted by Andreas and his elder daughter, Theresa. Charlie is very quick in introducing himself; I wonder why but it is not hard to work out as Theresa is very attractive and 18! Sabine joins us and this time it is Jony who is quick to introduce himself! We have a quick tour of their house and garden with Jony asking questions about the build (it is a wooden house made off site and then erected very quickly) and Andreas and I discuss pruning of their apple trees. Then off to a very nice restaurant on the water front of Ammersee. We appear to have the best table and can watch the paddle steamers come in from the lake in front of us. A good meal which reminds me of the corporate meetings we used to have.
On the way back Jony, who has not come on his bike so he could have a drink (which turns out to be literally one glass of wine), rides on the back on my bike which is the first time I have had someone of even moderate weight on the pillion and the steering is somewhat light! Charlie comments that my headlamp is rather bright - not surprising considering the angle of the bike!
We go into Munich by train to give the bikes a well earned rest. J&C go off to do the Deutches Museum and I take a tram to the Neue Pinakothek to look at early 20th century paintings. It is as much funds it sounds. On the way back I walk through a grandiose square where the National Socialist party liked to march it's troops. Nearby a museum is being constructed which will document the NS (Nazi) - hopefully in a 'how not to do things' sort of way. It opens in February 2014 in case you are interested.
I bump into J&C in another art gallery, this one recommended by Tillmann & Petra which is showing works by Nordic artists (Aus Dämmerung und Licht which I thinks means from twilight and light - doesn't sound so impressive in English does it). It has some rather good paintings.
We are now back at Tillmann's and will shortly go off to meet Andreas & Sabine Gerathewohl, partly as they said I must visit them when next in Munich (as they have stayed with us in Norfolk) and partly because I am curious to see their house which they have had built in his mother's garden by the lake. I am expecting posh.
We arrive at Andreas & Sabine's despite my leaving the motorway too early and we manage to follow our noses right to their house without having to ask anyone. We are greeted by Andreas and his elder daughter, Theresa. Charlie is very quick in introducing himself; I wonder why but it is not hard to work out as Theresa is very attractive and 18! Sabine joins us and this time it is Jony who is quick to introduce himself! We have a quick tour of their house and garden with Jony asking questions about the build (it is a wooden house made off site and then erected very quickly) and Andreas and I discuss pruning of their apple trees. Then off to a very nice restaurant on the water front of Ammersee. We appear to have the best table and can watch the paddle steamers come in from the lake in front of us. A good meal which reminds me of the corporate meetings we used to have.
On the way back Jony, who has not come on his bike so he could have a drink (which turns out to be literally one glass of wine), rides on the back on my bike which is the first time I have had someone of even moderate weight on the pillion and the steering is somewhat light! Charlie comments that my headlamp is rather bright - not surprising considering the angle of the bike!
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