A weekend in August

Weekend, 02.08.03

(Click the thumbnails for the big picture.)

Kathrin's sisten, Ellen, came to stay with us for a week, so the pressure was on to make a few plans and get out there and do something. So in keeping with the way the rest of this summer has progressed, we visited lakes, drank in beer gardens and suffered in the heat.

These were taken at Feringasee which is about 20km door-to-door from our apartment.

Very cute kid. I like how the first picture came out.

I'm the apple of her eye. Actually, I'm the chubby Irish bloke of her eye, but there you go.

Wacky haircut at the Leopoldstraße street festival. The two women in the second picture seemed to think I was taking a photo of them. Why would I do that, why oh why??

Em...feeling blue??

Having had enough of wandering around the street with 20000 other muppets we decided to head to Bobolovsky's.

And yes, we did have a few little drinkies :-)

Kathrin teaching Ellen her favourite Turkish greeting!

Next morning, with sore heads, we packed up GP and headed off for Ettal. It's on the way to Garmish (south of Munich) and takes about an hour to reach. In attendance were myself, Kathrin, Ellen, Paul and Benni (girls name, short for Benedict, it's French) who we had just met the previous night.

The troops looking a little worse for wear. And we were only about half way up the mountain at that stage. Glad I was taking the photos and not being in them.

Myself and Kathrin did this hike in January when the place was covered in snow and ice. Click Here to see what it looked like. It'll open in a new window.

Kathrin on the last leg. Or on her last legs.

Sustenance was required and that's what we got.

The first of the hang-gliders heading off into the wild blue yonder. Awesome stuff!!

And number 2 does his thing.

After heading back down in the cable car to Oberammergau we had a 4km hike around the base of the mountain to get back to Ettal and GP. So, repeat after me as quickly as you can...

"Ob er aber über Oberammergau, oder ob er über Unterammergau, oder ob er überhaupt nicht kommt, ist nicht gewiß."

Starting the hunt off at a very early age.

And he gets there in the end.

Sometimes when you take photos of kids, the parents can be a little unhappy about it. And understandably. However, as soon as I pointed the camera at this little guy his mother shouted at him to tidy himself up and stand still for me.