May 14th
After a busy week in München with activities such as museum
tours during the day, catching countless trams and trains, and theater
performances almost every night, being in the Alpen foothill town of Füssen has been quite a treat. While approaching the mountains in the train
from München, I remembered how it felt to see them for the first time on the
train to Murnau and I thought to myself excitedly "Wir sind wieder
da!" München is beautiful and has a
fascinating history, but for the time being I am enjoying nature's beauty where
I feel more at home and relaxed, and experiencing the unique traditions and
history of rural Bavaria.
Today we took a
tour on a bus, and I was told it was called a "romantic bus ride" on
the "romantic road." It was
absolutely beautiful, except I couldn't enjoy the first half due to motion
sickness. I sat in the front for the
second half and I felt fine. Not very
interesting, unlike the tour. We visited
two gorgeous baroque churches, Wieskirche and one in Steingaden.
After the tour,
we ate a quick dinner in our beautiful hotel room and left to see an Alpine
horn concert at sundown by two
charismatic gentlemen dressed in trachten.
On the walk back from the concert we had the privelage of hearing a
cuckoo bird. Every experience today was
perfectly traditional and unique to the region and it was everything I had
hoped it would be.
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