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Post by WDB on May 31, 2018 13:37:33 GMT
Funny day in Bavaria today. We’re here to work on a bid, but it turns out it’s a public holiday (something Catholic that the rest of Germany knows nothing about) and most places, including our offices, are closed. So we spent the morning camping in a café, and I’ve now retired to my hotel to write a report. But in between, I needed some lunch. The delightful sandwich counters seem to have taken the day off too, but this place was open, and I knew I should go in, if only because Otto couldn’t. For the record, it was horrible. But don’t tell Otto.
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Post by Humph on May 31, 2018 13:41:27 GMT
The Italians sometimes have public holidays on Thursdays too, but in their case it's alleged anyway, they then find a reason to be on strike on the Friday so they get a long weekend.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2018 14:29:01 GMT
So cruel. So very cruel.
The only small crumb of comfort that I can find is that you like ceviche and here I have very good, very fresh and very cheap ceviche.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2018 14:32:22 GMT
You'd kind of expect Italians to have a lot of public holidays, what with Rome and all that.
Public holidays here are frequently Tuesdays and Thursdays. They find it offensive to be expected to work on the gap days and certainly wouldn't take anything from their own holiday allocation.
It would appear that dentists and doctors do very good business on gap days whereas Great Aunts fare less well and die a lot.
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Post by tyrednexited on May 31, 2018 14:40:48 GMT
Funny day in Bavaria today. We’re here to work on a bid, but it turns out it’s a public holiday (something Catholic that the rest of Germany knows nothing about).... Corpus Christi. I was awoken by the church bells here in Bohinj. It isn't a holiday in Slovenia, though. Seen some very good celebrations of CC, over the years. The boats at Halstatt in Austria are quite impressive.
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Post by Humph on May 31, 2018 15:32:43 GMT
Bohinj? You're quite near Bled then? It has a church on an island in the middle of a lake I want to remember. Also, it was where Tito had his summer residence. I was briefly arrested there when I was about 18. Not for anything too bad, it was just that one of the guys I was backpacking with was a keen botanist, he went on to be quite a succesful one he says ( although how you measure that is a bit of a mystery to me ) anyway, he spotted something rare growing in what we thought was a park, and we hopped a wall to photograph it. Turned out we were in the presidents garden. Soldiers, jeeps, guns etc appeared very swiftly. Quite a laxative at the time, but we were soon sent on our way after a bit of a scolding. I think he managed to blag a cutting from the plant in the end.
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Post by Humph on May 31, 2018 15:41:01 GMT
Oh, and I also want to remember that Klagenfurt was quite nice. I'm sure I swam in a lake there. Such a long time ago though. Stayed in a youth hostel at Villach or Hallein I think. Anyway, it was in a castle used as a film set for something. Colditz maybe, or Where Eagles Dare or something. Went down a salt mine somewhere near there. Wooden chute thing to get down. Christ I'm going back 40 odd years come to think. No wonder I can't remember ! Edit - It was Werfen and the film was Where Eagles Dare and the castle used to be a youth hostel.
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Post by tyrednexited on May 31, 2018 17:01:33 GMT
Bohinj? You're quite near Bled then? It has a church on an island in the middle of a lake I want to remember. Also, it was where Tito had his summer residence. I was briefly arrested there when I was about 18. I am indeed near Bled, not that the Slovenian roads were any help with that. Crossed from Bovec over the passes (Which would be interesting in a car, let alone a 3.5t motor home motorcaravan campervan) relying on the Sat nav, as my map for here is not of a scale to help. Sat nav was spot on, but the road was closed for road works, and we found ourselves diverted onto ever more minor (and mountainous) roads and after an hour of driving we were 20 miles further away! .....then the next road was also closed. Took over 4 hours to do less than 50 (original) road miles. Checking on a large scale map locally, the route we ended up on seemed the best, given the closures. I once (with a couple of friends) scaled the cliffs from the coast walkway at Collioure, and ended up in the French commando training centre. Walked out through the entrance arch nonchalantly (well, relatively) past the armed guard (who was of course, more interested in those entering than those leaving). I didn't think I looked particularly French, and my hair was definitely too long, but hey, the recklessness of youth.
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Post by Humph on May 31, 2018 17:50:07 GMT
Collioure, gosh, there's a memory, I fell in lust with a French girl there a lifetime ago. It was a short lived romance ( a Friday to a Sunday as I recall ) She looked slightly like a young Audrey Hepburn but with the hairy armpits obviously. Pastis was involved I think.
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Post by WDB on Jun 1, 2018 9:09:47 GMT
So cruel. So very cruel. The only small crumb of comfort that I can find is that you like ceviche and here I have very good, very fresh and very cheap ceviche. Yes, fair enough. Although I can have - and have had - a reasonable go at making ceviche at home. Although without the view of the Andes.
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Post by Alanović on Jun 1, 2018 9:34:32 GMT
Stayed in Bled for the annual family ski trip this February just gone. Great location. Passed through Bohinj a couple of times on the way to Vogel, which is now my favourite ski mountain in Slovenia.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 1, 2018 11:05:53 GMT
on the way to Vogel, which is now my favourite ski mountain in Slovenia. .....which is exactly where I am posting this from. 😁😉
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Post by Alanović on Jun 1, 2018 11:13:34 GMT
Been up the gondola? Much snow around?
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 1, 2018 11:30:53 GMT
I'm at the top of the gondola at the moment.
Early start to miss the crowds and clouds. Considered climbing Vogel, but it has been in mist since we arrived, so knocked a slightly lower top off (3.5 hours walk).
Still some patchy snow around, but don't get any ideas of skiing 😀, it won't be around for long in these temperatures.
I are currently enjoying a beer on the terrace 😓.
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Post by Alanović on Jun 1, 2018 12:08:31 GMT
Chin chin.
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