Winter Escape to Larnaca I’d been languishing on my window sill for far too long, watching the Austrian winter closing in, when I heard some great news. The Oldies were heading off to Cyprus. Fantastic! Sea and sunshine, what more could a seagull ask for! Larnaca was our first port of call and I was delighted with the Wingless Wonders’ choice of apartment. Close to the old city centre, with fabulous sea views and just a stone’s throw from the…
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…
Visits to BMW Museum and BMW World, Munich Even a Winged Wonder like me knows that Munich is the home of the world-famous marque, so it was pretty much inevitable that BMW would sooner or later appear on the agenda. Now, the Oldies are not particularly into cars. Normally, their only interest in motorised vehicles is purely as a means of getting themselves from A to B. But I never figured that the BMW Museum would bring out the petrol…