Germany... Austria ... Switzerland

On Thursday I arrived at Friedrichshaven airport in germany, picked up the car then headed towards Lindau. Hotel was in Bizau,which is in Bregenzerwald ( Bregenz Forest)region of Austria... below is a pic of the lovely host at the hotel.


Did a spot of shopping on the way, came accross a sex shop and noticed there was a booth for maturbating ... lol See pic below ...


Went to see a concert which was part of Schubertiade Festival at the Angelika Kawffmann Hall in Scwaizenberg.


On Friday, decided to go for walks and enjoy the surroundings ... Went on the chair lift ... It was calm but a little scary since I often qwiver at the thoughts of falling and was told there are no health and safety regulations in place.The chair-lift is on a mountain called the Hirschberg, which means "Stag Mountain". The toboggan run which was closed due to the rain is called a Sommerrodelbahn.

We decided to to go shopping where we met a lovely lady who introduced me to guns... and we tested some water beds. They felt really nice.

Later that evening after the second concert was done we dined in the Hotel Adler with the famous British Barristone Christopher Maltman.

On Saturday we went to the markets then met the equally famous German Barritone Thomas Quathoff at the Goldener Hirsch hotel is Scharzenberg.


Did a spot of shopping, sent post cards decided to buy a scrach card abnd won Five Euros which will be in a Frame soon. Then made a swift visit to Switzerland, the police men stopped us at the tollgates and had our passports for a while I started getting nervous because my German vocabulary was very limited.

Later in the afternoon visited Bregenz to see the floating stage and attend a rehearsal of this summer's production of Aida. Had lunch and drove back to Airport and coudn't find a single gas station to fill the tank ... and we got a parking ticket.

Arrived a STN airport in LDN then caught the train to Audley End where we went to watch the end of a Cricket match on the pitch in front of the house.

On Sunday we went to Fowlmere Nature reserve and saw lots of cockspit , sorry I mean cookoo spit, but little else, until the end of the walk when the assitant warden showed us a mistle thrush's nest and a sloat.