Skip to main content

Wolfratshausen

Wolfratshausen is the large village/small town/outer commuter suburb of Munich where we are spending four weeks through August and early September.  It's been a great place to take a break from our intense journey with the chance to sleep in the same place for weeks with no packing and unpacking required!  We have been fortunte to stay in a lovely apartment.  Our hosts Wolfgang and Hildegard have been fabulous and Elise has had plenty of opportunities to use her German language skills.  The neighbourhood is very nice and quite prosperous.
Samuels birthday cake

The river Isar flows just to the east of town.  The river is quite large as it drains a substantial area in the Barvarian Alps and the river valley is well forested which has been good for Eric to find plenty of nice places to run.  Wolfratshausen itself is close enough to the Alps that it gets a lot of rain and sometimes some quite impressive storms...

Staying in the one place has other advantages.  With an Aldi and Lidl just up the road and a well equipped ktchen our food bills have dropped precipitously.  There' is a number of nice restaurants in town so we haven't skimped too much.  Surprisingly after our search for Munich's best Schnitzel, we finally found it an unpretentious looking restaurant at the local sports ground.  Ralf the owner and his crew at Musto's cook up some great German food just 500 meters from our apartment.  The cutlets and schnitzel were so good we went back for a second visit.


It was sad finally leaving Wolfratshausen however the sadness was tempered with excitement knowing we were on our way to Iceland.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Inca Trail day 4

This was the day we would arrive at Macchu Picchu so we awoke with a keen sense of anticipation.   To celebrate the last day on the trail, somehow the chef had whipped up an enormous cake which was served after breakfast.  After a discussion with Marco about the likely weather over the next two days we agreed that it would be best to tour Macchu Picchu as soon as we arrived in mid afternoon rather than wait until tomorrow. Marco assured us that this would mean less crowds and better weather (he was right). We could see the backside of the mountain above Macchu Picchu in front of us as we started out.  Unlike the last two days, today was mainly downhill.  We would have to descend about 1,000 meters and judging by the first part of the morning walk, most of this would be on steep and slippery rocky steps. After alternating descents and traversing along steep hillsides through cloud forest and bamboo groves we reached the ruins of Intipata. Intipata was a very...
2 comments
Read more

Vatnajökull National Park

Vatnajökull National Park is a must visit destination for any tourist to Iceland.  It's also one of the most inaccessable.  The main reason for this inaccessability is that much of the National Park is taken up by the enormous Vatnajökull glacier.  So you can't just drive in and walk around.  To see the interior of the park (the glacier) you need to make special arrangements - like taking a tour in a Superjeep. We booked a Superjeep tour for our first day at the park which was cancelled due to the inclement weather... However the next day we were definitely ready to see as much as we could and fortunately the tour was back on. Our tour guide was Hungarian but very well informed and we learned a lot about Icelandic culture as well as glaciers and volcanoes. The Jeep we were in had been made by the driver (and some friends) and consisted of part of a Chrysler with another van's back end bolted on and modified engine and gears.  It had 54 inch wheels w...
Post a Comment
Read more

Iceland's wild east coast

The east coast of Iceland attracts a fraction of the tourists and has a fraction of the population of the western side.  It really is the place for a remote getaway.  The hosts of our farmstay near Egilsstadir moved from Reykjavik to get away from the system and the hectic Reykjavik scene 😊.  Their farm certainly epitomised the word remote.  Samuel loved the farm, especially playing with the two very friendly and intelligent farm dogs. As with much of Iceland, one of the best ways to spend the time is just driving with plenty of stops for photography - in fact it's hard to make much progress in some scenic areas as the urge to park the car and whip out the camera every few kilometers is overwhelming.  This was especially the case on the one long day we spent driving from Egilsstadir to Hofn.  We started our journey on yet another overcast morning and almost immediately headed down a rough back road off the ring road in search of a waterfall.  We...
Post a Comment
Read more