Sunday on the Fraueninsel
Yesterday we drove to the Chiemsee (a lake near Munich) and took a ferry to the Fraueninsel (ladies' island), where they have a Christmas market every year. The island is very small -- it would probably only take about thirty minutes or less to walk the entire circumference -- but a lot of people live there. There are no cars on the island, so the "roads" are really more like wide paths.
We had a nice lunch in one of the restaurants there (apparently they have enough tourists that several restaurants can stay in business) and walked around for awhile, looking at the stalls and listening to the music that was being played everywhere. It was a popular destination -- there were hundreds of other people with the same idea, and so it was pretty crowded on the island.
It was one of those clear wintry days that we get sometimes, with blue skies and no rain. Here are a few pictures I took. Click on the images to see the larger ones.
The first two were taken from the ferry dock. In the first picture you can see the island across the water (the dark part in the middle). The mountains are on the other side of the lake. The pictures of Marty and me were taken during the crossing. It only took about ten or fifteen minutes to get to the island. The last picture was taken around 4pm, getting close to sunset, when we were leaving the island.
In other news, this year I am participating in Holidailies, which means I'll be trying to update Raspberry World every day in December. We'll see how well that works out. It may not be possible while I'm visiting Vienna at the end of the month, but while I'm here, I'm going to try to keep up.
Yesterday we drove to the Chiemsee (a lake near Munich) and took a ferry to the Fraueninsel (ladies' island), where they have a Christmas market every year. The island is very small -- it would probably only take about thirty minutes or less to walk the entire circumference -- but a lot of people live there. There are no cars on the island, so the "roads" are really more like wide paths.
We had a nice lunch in one of the restaurants there (apparently they have enough tourists that several restaurants can stay in business) and walked around for awhile, looking at the stalls and listening to the music that was being played everywhere. It was a popular destination -- there were hundreds of other people with the same idea, and so it was pretty crowded on the island.
It was one of those clear wintry days that we get sometimes, with blue skies and no rain. Here are a few pictures I took. Click on the images to see the larger ones.
The first two were taken from the ferry dock. In the first picture you can see the island across the water (the dark part in the middle). The mountains are on the other side of the lake. The pictures of Marty and me were taken during the crossing. It only took about ten or fifteen minutes to get to the island. The last picture was taken around 4pm, getting close to sunset, when we were leaving the island.
In other news, this year I am participating in Holidailies, which means I'll be trying to update Raspberry World every day in December. We'll see how well that works out. It may not be possible while I'm visiting Vienna at the end of the month, but while I'm here, I'm going to try to keep up.
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