Bavaria

My time in Munich is nearly up and on Friday I set off for the remaining part of my trip. Yes, I´m coming home, in fact I´ll be home on the 6th of December! I am extremely grateful for my dad to organise the flights home for me, via New York which is even more amazing! I wasn´t even surprised with the speed he had me booked on the respective flights after my initial email ( a little worried I´d change my mind to stay longer maybe??). So, where am I off to next? Well, I spend this weekend in Belgium visiting family, then onto Hamburg, Poland, Berlin to catch up with dad there, then Leipzig, Dresden, Prague and maybe one or two other places in the Czech Republic, before returning to Munich to pick up a few remaining things and flying on to London to catch my flight there for New York and then SYDNEY! Just a relaxing little holiday really!!

The next few weeks will certainly be a little more intense than the last couple of weeks here in Munich. I´ve had a nice few weeks here and spent a few days with my aunt and uncle who live in a small country town. They took me for a drive to another city in Bavaria called Passau which is quite a nice city. The claim to fame for Passau is not only that three rivers converge in the city, but also has to do with its cathedral...

The reason for this is that the cathedral has the largest organ in the world. To me it didn´t seem any bigger than many of the others I´ve seen, but what do I know?!

Regardless, it is a rather beautiful cathedral and trust me, I´ve seen quite a few churches and cathedrals since beginning my travels! Of course, the major problem with this is that after a while they all tend to blend in together so once you´ve stepped outside again, you´re really not sure which cathedral had what!

Apart from visiting my aunt and uncle, for my Oma´s birthday we took a drive into the countryside and visited one of the many lakes in Bavaria called the Spitzingsee.

A beautiful area where we enjoyed a childhood favorite dessert of mine Dampfnudel! It´s dough which has been rolled in a ball, cooked a certain way and served in hot vanilla sauce. It´s quite nice, though in honesty I probably enjoyed it more as a kid than I do now. A little sticky after the first few bites!

The weather here has been quite nice the last couple of days, even getting up to 20 degrees during the day. Nevertheless, autumn is here and winter is approaching quickly! Last weekend it dropped down to 5 degrees at night and as the picture below shows, the Bavarian Alps have had their first snow.

Apart from that I don´t really have anything else to report, apart from the fact that I´m going to see Pink in concert tomorrow!! Whoohoo!! Given the fact that the concert is in Nürmberg which is about 1-1.5 hours away from Munich and I have to be at the airport on Friday morning at about 7 to catch my flight it probably isn´t the smartest thing to do but hay, a friend here in Munich managed to get free tickets so I couldn´t pass up the opportunity to see her...and I´m sure the music will be good too ;-)