Travelog for: Murph

Sometimes we take Maggy, our host's dog, for a walk close to the European Patent Office. We are wondering why all those straw bales are tied around the trees? 

We passed by the Königsplatz today. We saw the Lenbachhaus (museum for art - they are showing Kandinsky right now) and the Propylaeum.

The weather has changed and it snowed a lot. Now all the ice along the Isar river is covered with snow.

I passed the European Patent Office again and guess what the bales of straw are for - they're used as bumpers for the kids of the neighborhood going down the little slopes with their toboggans so they do not get hurt (if bumping into a tree)

As usual I went for a walk with Maggy, our host's dog. We were very surprised when the meadows along the Isar river was suddenly dug up. Later we heard that this part of the Isar close to the German Museum is "under renaturation". In the seventies many rivers were put straigth, now they are put back into the previous natural state.

I accompanied my host to her home town. Sulzbach-Rosenberg is a small town in the North-East of Bavaria. Pandamao showed me the town centre, a former cloister, the castle and town-hall.

When we went to our host's home town we saw a well decorated with Easter eggs. Here it is the custom to decorate bushes and wells with lots of colourful eggs for Easter time. Pandamao told me that it is still early and that for the Easter week-end there will be many more eggs there.

Our host wanted to pick wild Bears Garlic. So we went to Feldafing at the lake of Starnberg and collected a bag full of Bears Garlic.

Another trip to the Starnberg Lake - I saw the castle of Possenhofen, that's the castle where Sisi - the later Empress Elisabeth of Austria - has spent her youth.

Today I went for a trip to Türkenfeld to collect more wild herbs. The photo shows us with wild anemone.

The weather was great, sunshine, blue sky and so I took a walk along the Starnberg Lake.

As we could not eat all the Bears Garlic we had picked, we cut it and put it into olive oil - it will be used for pesto later.

I am leaving today - I had a good time and look forward to seeing my next host.

Hi Mum,

I arrived at Rikes home today.

There were some other TVs, when I arrived.
First I was a little shy....



but then I started to talk.



After it, I went into the garden -
hey, who are you?



and two other friendly guys, we have the same color.



Now some nice flowers....





I will talk more with the other TVs and write later.

Bye
Murph

Hello Mum,

yesterday Miily left us, and today it was time to say goodbye to Polki and BineHH.





Because we were a little sad, Rike invited us to a nice walk.

The yellow flowers are wonderful.



Then we saw cows...



and horses.



In the end we found this beautiful tree - do you know, what kind of tree it is?



Now we are happy again - and will make nice trips in the next days. But Rike didn't tell us, where we will go.

Bye
Murph