Rocking Your World Friday

It's Friday and on Friday there is the meme on Celtic House called Rocking Your World which is
'the moment to step back and take stock of your week, to work out the positives, the things that have made life more bearable and to celebrate these facts. Pop a post together, come back and link each Friday and let's share our positives around. It's a great therapy and stops life slipping through our fingers or spending too much time dwelling on the negatives. Not sure if it's for you - give it a go - you'll never know until you try!'

So this week was a fabulous week.  Last Saturday was my birthday and we got up very early and got a 7am flight to Munich in Germany.   So many new sights and sounds to be thankful for.

Firstly, over a hundred birthday wishes on Facebook. Wow!  Thank you everyone.

My birthday dinner at the Biergarten.

My dinner : Stewed Roast Deer

With Dumplings and red cabbage.

And Sorbet and  Prosecco to follow.

And Roger had pork

And Apple Strudel

If I had ever compiled a Bucket List then this next place would have been high up on it.  On Sunday we took a coach trip to see the Royal Palaces of Ludwig II.  The first castle was Lindhof and then we visited Oberammergau where we saw lots of painted houses.

And we saw this amazing display of flowers.

And then on to a place that was probably top of the theoretical bucket list - Neuschwanstein Castle.

On Monday it rained and we got very wet but it didn't dampen our spirits.  We were thankful that it was still warm and so we didn't mind.  We visited more royal palaces - the Nymphenburg Palace which originally was outside the city and used in summer  and the Residenz in the centre of Munich.

Nymphenburg

Inside the Residenz

 

And St George in the Treasury

Our hotel was lovely, the staff were friendly and helpful and the transport links into the City Centre were great.  Only two problems.  One I hate feather pillows.  Two, our room was on the front of the hotel and as it was so warm we had to have the windows open.  The room faced on to what turned out to be a very busy and noisy street and we didn't sleep much.  However on Monday we were moved to a room at the back and we were very thankful.  The room was much cooler and quieter.

On Tuesday we went to Augsburg by train.

And on Wednesday we visited the Deutsches Museum.   According to the guidebook it would take 3 weeks to see every exhibit so I am thankful that Roger decided we would only spend an hour and 45 minutes there.

The we took the Underground to the northern end of the Englischer Garten and walked back through the garden to the city.

The plane took off on time and we arrived home safely, most thankful that nothing untoward had happened whilst we were away.

And best of all I had a good night's sleep with my proper pillow.

I'll post more photos of our stay in another post soon.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Scavenger Hunt around Munich

I had intended taking part in Rinda's Photo Scavenger Hunt this summer but time has passed since it started at the beginning of June and I hadn't really got into it due to life getting in the way a bit!

And then I thought I could use the list to take photos on our trip to Munich.  I carefully printed out the list and then just as carefully left it at home.  I could remember one or two of the things and I looked up the list on Rinda's blog using my phone but couldn't find a pen to write things down!  So I winged it a bit!  But I seemed to do okay with the photos I took.

I ended up with around 450 photos from our 5 days so using Rinda's list is a great way to show you just a few of the things we saw.

Rather than listing them numerically I'm going to do them by the day.

Saturday
#3: City Hall or civic building.   Here is the Rathaus in the centre of Munich. Rathaus is German for Council House.

About half way up the tower of the Rathaus is a clock with moving characters.  Here's a rather wobbly video I took.

#8: A Tower.  Munich was full of towers and to take this photo of the communication tower at the Olympic Park we climbed the 306 steps to the top of the Alter Peter Church tower.

Sunday
We visited two Royal Palaces and Oberammagau.  I'll do a separate post about that.

Monday
It rained.  Really, really wet rain and we were soaked.  However I did see these.

#10: A bench outside.

#13: A fence.  I'm hoping railings count as a fence.  This is at Nymphenburg Palace.

From this Palace we went back to the City Centre and visited the Residenz which had this, the Cuvillies Theatre.
#2: Theatre for the performing arts

And so to Tuesday.
We took the train to Augsburg where amongst other things we saw a Cathedral, the house where Mozart's father was born and lots of beautiful buildings.  And there were lots more towers!
#1: An Open Air Market

#14: A stained glass object.  A window in the cathedral.

#17: Candle(s).  This candelabra in the cathedral with a beautiful quilt on the wall behind it.

When we got back to Munich we walked round some of the areas we hadn't done before and went to a Dali exhibition.   Then back to the hotel where I was able to snap

#6: Someone taking a nap.

Wednesday
The last day of our trip.  We started at the Deutsches Museum.
Bonus (or possibly substitute) item: A sundial

There was actually a sundial garden on the roof terrace of the museum!

The museum was amazing.  Absolutely full of technology and I thought I would have to use this rather elegant wind turbine for #16.

However, all was not lost.  Downstairs in the basement in the children's play area was
#16: A windmill.  Who would have thought!

And of course the museum had to have a tower.

And from the roof I was able to take a photo of lots more towers!

In the afternoon we walked through the Englischer Garten and saw these:
#12 A cloud in the shape of something.

I thought this one looked a bit like Popeye but I think the shape had changed by the time I took the photo.  It could be a dragon.

As could this with a bit of imagination .  Or maybe the head of a bird!

And lastly for our trip
#4: Airplane.  It was dark by the time I got airside at the airport so I hope you can make out the aeroplane in this photo.

But to make sure, here's the inside just before we took off.

I'm really pleased with my haul of photos for Rinda's challenge.  Just a few more to collect before September 21st.  Perhaps I'll put the list of what I need into my phone!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Little Details

Carolyn has a weekly meme on Thursdays called Messy Little Details.  Find out about it here.  Why don't you join in?

And back to Florida this week for a close up of a beady eye.

The birds are so tame in Florida that I was able to get really close - plus I have a really good zoom lens!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice