Category: Germany
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Bench in the tree
It is hard to see, but there is a bench in the tree in a branch hanging over the Isar. You can find it near Praterinsel in Munich. by mobile
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Hörnle’s lake view
Hörnle’s lake view There is a little mountain near Bad Kohlgrub, called Hörnle. Munich kids know it well: It’s only 1404 m high, but this is high enough for a ski lift and used for beginners; and in summer time parents do the first mountain tours with their kids. So, it’s always crowded 😟 But…
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Eis am Stil or frozen bench
As it is already warm we forgot how cold the start into spring was. The Süddeutsche Zeitung kept the memory with the below article with the picture of a frozen bench.
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Esting Sculptures
In Esting you can buy sculptures for your garden. But not the usual stuff … these sculptures are mega-sized, and you can find almost every animal in bronze: lions, dinosaurs, ostriches, turtles, hippopotamus, etc, Plus this bench, carved in a large tree.
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The biggest bench in the world is actually a chair.
I have been personally visiting this chair, some years back but I did not climb it and I never sat on it. I merely was standing beneath of the chair on a rather cold, windy and rainy day. I was amazed to find the chair while far from home on a Facebook page called Lichtklicker.…
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English Garden behind Monopteros
This bench has been for quite a while on my radar. It is the so called “Steinerne Bank”, designed by the famous Munich architect Leo von Klenze. It is basically half a circle of a stone bench on a kind of an island behind the well known Monopteros. …and that is basically also the view:…
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Bench and Roses
These two benches are located in the front yard of the world famous monastery “Benedikt Beuren” south of Munich in the “blue county” (worth to check that out) 😉 The benches are covered by roses. Unfortunately, at this point of the year they were not blossoming (I will add that once I am there at the…
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Maibaum-Bankerl in Gauting 1st of May 2017
In Bavaria there is a tradition to setup a tree trunk on 1st of May in each community. The trunk is nicely decorated and colored in blue-white stripes (the colors of Bavaria, representing the blue sky and white clouds, but the true story is that the colors origin from Greece. But that is a different story…) According to German…
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Hartmut’s Bench
On 30th December 2016 I went for a hike to Tegernsee. The weather was beautiful, I planed to go for one of the favorite short tracks, have a walk of about 1 hour and enjoy a Weißbeer on the Neureuth Terrace. When I arrived there, it was crowded like hell, so I decided to walk…
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Buchheim in Bernried
Lately we were at Buchheim Museum in Bernried, which is located at the Starnberger Lake. At that day we went for the “100Water” exhibition, but the museum is always worth a visit with its permanent art works. http://www.buchheimmuseum.de/ When you walk down from the parking place to the museum you pass by a bench. It…
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Jas Hill and Tegernsee
The last benches for 2016 came from Jutta/Thomas from their favorite walk around the Jasberg in Otterfing, close to Holzkirchen and from the Tegernsee. Both last days of December with fantastic wheather for short walks in those beautiful surroundings.
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Autumn in Rheinhessen
Here is another bench from Mike. It’s autumn in Germany and this bench is located in the county of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinhessen). …and as you can see from the view over the wine yards with its colored leaves, this is one of the great wine areas of Germany.
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Bridge bench at Stanberg
I go this bench from Gloria who was walking around Stanberger Lake and saw this kind of bridge-bench close to the lake, with of course… …a fantastic view on the lake with the Alps in the back ground.
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Alles Banane
“Alles Banane” is a German expression and means something like “everything is ok”. The banana below is meant to be a bench in the German city of Ulm. It is a kind of advertisement for fair trade bananas. Usually Ulm is known for its rustic charm and its church, which is the highest in the…
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Kaltenberg Knights Festival
Every year in July there is a medieval festival in Kaltenberg, hosted by the local brewery. Thousands of visitors – mainly parents with kids – come and enjoy a day in a Middle Age, eating and drinking and watching the epic fight of “good and bad”. http://www.ritterturnier.de/ New since this year: Right at the entrance…
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Art for the National Park Berchtesgaden
It is the “Day of Pokemon Go” and being (still) very fond of Poke hunting we go for a stroll after dinner to increase our levels. All of sudden I found it – still in front of the craft shop: The ultimate bench: * Hand crafted by one of the local artists (in Berchtesgaden there…
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City Center Berchtesgarden
This bench can be found in front of the city hall in Berchtesgarden. Quite comfortable with the “build-in” table.
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Kramerplateau Addition
I went again to the Kramerplateau trail and realized that we missed the one or the other bench in the last post. First of all, there was a new bench build. A dedication to Erika with some wisdom of Winnie the Pooh. Then I also realized that there were a couple of bird houses which were…
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Somewhere in The “Allgäuer” Alps.
The “Allgäu” is one of the most beautiful areas in Germany. The Allgäu Alps (German: Allgäuer Alpen) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, located in Bavaria in Germany and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range lies directly east of Lake Constance. Some Germans can afford to own a little summer residence…
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Kramerplateau Weg Benches
What a wonderful leisure walk Kramerplateauweg is an easy walk of about one and a half hours along the upper close edges of Garmisch. For those who don’t know, Garmisch was once the host of the Winter Olympic Games. Once in a while one can look down the sloops on majestic Garmisch. An unknown number…