Saturday 4th July

Ah, starting at 10am ish for a garden breakfast. Birgit & Manfred have this special straight from the cow country milk. There is lots of cream on top sort of like in the old days. Megan had brought some Milo as a present so I figured I would try it with Milo – yum!. Breakfast consisted of bread and honey from their own bees, a boiled egg. Dan had a bit of a melt down because the yolk of his egg was a lighter colour than expected. So I ate it & gave him my egg. This appeared to have the same problem and no amount of trying to convince Dan that this was caused by the pedigree of the chook in question or her diet seemed to do any good so I ate that one as well.


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A stop at the tip. An obligatory point of interest for any green tourist (like me) and once again we get to see that wonderful German

organisation in action. A dozen or more containers so the rubbish is separated and collated according to material. Some of these containers are plugged in and have built in compactors. Others are like shipping containers with a door on the side. We neatly positioned a fridge along side a dozen other fridges. Bottles and cans are assigned to their respective containers. All this inn suburbia and all free. Kids are allowed to participate and amazingly no one dies. Compare once again with Brisbane, where the kids stay in the car, there is limited separation of

rubbish and you have to mortgage your first born to pay for it.

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Then Bergit & Manfred drove us south. We stopped off at ???see.de for a swim. This was another lake with lots of green grass and trees

around it. Like me, you may be thinking that they have no swimming pools here I guess because in winter they would turn into ice skating rinks. However I am assured that they do have pool

complexes with indoor and outdoor pools some heated and some not and so on. (Just like home I gue

ss). There was a concrete water slide. No signs, no over enthusiastic life guard. You could make trains. The 8-10yo boys would stand in the channel and as someone slid down, they would jump up and form a tunnel by arching them selves across the channel (feet on one side, hands on the other) for us to slide through.

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After a couple of ours swim we proceeded to their country house in the Bavarian mountains. In winter it snows here and their kids have been known to shovel the snow up to the verandah and skied off the verandah and down the hill. In summer, it is just one of those picture postcard situations in real life. Enjoy the pictures. On the way here we went through the village of “Bad Tölz”. There is a river here that flows all the way to Munich. Anyone interested in a canoeing expedition? (In summer!).

We have just watched Germany beat Argentina in the soccer world cup. Luckily:) So now I am sitting in the Bavarian country house typing up this blog entry with the hills visible out the window and at 5pm plenty of sunshine left in the day. We have to do something about getting daylight saving in Brisbane and not just one hour but several hours

of it.