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 guess). 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.
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.
After the football we help with processing honey. First the frames are removed from the hive. The hives are made of coolite to keep the bees warm in winter and cool in summer. The frames are put into a centrifuge where the physicists amongst you will know that there are no outward going forces so how does it work?. The honey is filtered to remove wax chips and dead bees. Finally bottled. And “what do you do with the honey” I ask?. Manfred replies “we sell it to our friends”
“and give it to everyone else” :)
hello - Jo.
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