Visit to INTERNAUTICA International Boat Show 2023 I might have mentioned before that Her Ladyship is a total landlubber and that the mere thought of boats makes her seasick. So you could have knocked me over with one of my own feathers when I heard her agreeing to join His Lordship on a visit to INTERNAUTICA in Portorož. She must be going a bit soft in her old age. Whatever promoted her, I didn’t care. I was going to a…
A visit to Baredine Cave, Poreč I was a tad nervous when the Oldies started talking about visiting the Baredine cave. I had been down the salt mines with them in Kraków, but this was different. It’s not man-made, so it could be a lot narrower, tighter… Not that I’m claustrophobic, mind you, but still, this is not the sort of place a self-respecting seagull wants to find himself all the same. I experienced a frisson in my feathers as…
A visit to Nymphenburg Palace I‘d figured out from day one that everything in Munich is on a large scale, but nothing prepared me for the scale of Nymphenburg Palace. The Oldies are slow at the best of times, but even they needed two full days to get around the palace and grounds, and they still didn’t get to see it all. The Wingless Wonders spent the first day alone simply walking around the palace park. This has to be…
A Stroll in the English Garden, Munich I had enjoyed watching the surfers from the beaches in Portugal, but I never expected to see surfers in the middle of Munich! This is like nothing I have ever seen before. A section of the river has been dammed up to create a surfable wave. The surfers are a hardy lot too – they surf the wave day and night, summer and winter! No wonder it’s called the Eisbachwelle, the Ice Stream…
Königsplatz; Lenbachhaus, Munich Ah, the artful Oldies slipped another art gallery onto the agenda! This time, Lenbachhaus, which, I have to say, was well worth a visit. I loved the venue itself, where a modern extension is cleverly wrapped around one side of the original Lenbach villa. The main collection features famous names including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, many of whom were part of the ‘Blauer Reiter’ group. I came away with the impression of a wonderful use…