Thursday morning and a cable car ride to the top of Hochfelln with views into Austria.The lake of Chiemsee.A bell outside the Hochfelln Chapel, built in 1899 but burned down in a lightning storm in 1970, subsequently rebuilt.Inside the mountain-top chapelWe stopped at the midway cable car station for Kaiserschmarrn – a ridiculously generous portion which we shared between three and still took half away. Delicious.Looking down on Bergen, our home for three nightsOur hotel, the Salzburger Hof, with our balcony centre on the second floorIn the afternoon we’d intended to get the steam train to the lake but it wasn’t running, so we drove to the terminus.And then took the ferryViews across ChiemseeWe took the ferry to Herreninsel where we walked to the Herrenchiemsee palace of Ludwig II of Bavaria.
The Fama Fountain from 1884-5, restored in 1994. Fama, the winged figure of fame is mounted on Pegasus, with War, Victory, History and Nature on one side, and Ency, Hate and Guile tumbling down the other side.
We opted to be pulled by these two horses back from the palace to the ferry, which we took onwards past Fraueninsel to Gstad and then back to the railway terminus where we found some dinner.Friday is German Unity Day, and we are in Munich on a chilly morning for parkrun in WestparkIt’s a lovely park and we enjoyed our runs
We’ve paused in our wandering around Munich for hot chocolate and cake and to await the midday performance
The Rathaus-Glockenspiel is a large mechanical clock located in Marienplatz. Famous for its life-size characters, the clock twice daily re-enacts scenes from Munich’s history. First is the story of the marriage of Duke Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine in 1568, followed by the story of the Schäfflerstanz, also known as the coopers’ dance.
In the Frauenkirche, the 15th century catholic cathedral, rebuilding of which was completed in 1994 after heavy war damage.
The Munich ResidenceThe War Memorial in front of the Bavarian State Chancellery.
A segment of the Berlin Wall on the edge of the English Garden.
A nod to Oktoberfest as we have a late little lunch before heading back to Bergen
While the other two rested, I went out for a drive and then a late afternoon mountain hike/run.Saturday morning and we have headed east into Austria, reaching Hellbrunn on the southern edge of Salzburg for today’s parkrun, with views to snowy Alps.Presumably a few Austrians in here, but mostly international visitors like us, including some I recognised from Westpark in Munich yesterday.Afterwards, an exploration of Hellbrunn Palace, built in 1613–19 by Markus Sittikus von Hohenems, Prince-Archbishop of SalzburgThe upper floor is a museum, here being the impressively muralled ballroom
The music room has some delightful acoustics
A tiled oven
Looking out on some of the gardensThe palace is famous for its “trick fountains”. In this example, guests would sit around the table, and at a certain point jets of water shot up from all the chairs except the hosts. Protocol forbade anyone from standing while their host remained seated.Some of the French-influenced gardensOur third attempt at getting authentic Wiener Schnitzel was the most successful, so congratulations to the Gasthof Hellbrunn.Walking from Hellbrunn to catch the bus into the centre of Salzburg, a view of the Hohensalzburg FortressWalking along Getreidegasse
Mozart’s birthplace, now home to a handy supermarket
Domplatz and the Dom zu Salzburg cathedralWe took the funicular to the fortress – a panorama to the northView to the south and Hellbrunn from the fortressResidentzplatz as we head back to the busA jaunty hat – time to head to the airport
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