Graffiti Friday
I’m not really keen on vandalism, but some of this stuff is truly art. I hope to post more graffiti pedestrian tunnels along the Isar river.
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Hirschau Option over Maibaum
Yesterday’s neighborhood Maibaumfest diddied up the Schlager hits as well as the average age of each party goer. This makes sense because there is a nursing home just across the way. So there wasn’t much to report. No one stole the Maypole or tried to randoms it for beer. But apparently this is a tradition in smaller towns. Nope. The white and blue diamonded pole stood proud and tall against a cloudless blue sky backdrop and the tiny crowd sat on the bierbänke, maybe tapping their feet to the oompa band tunes.
Actually, yesterday was a better day for a bike ride toward the Hirschau (deer meadow), where few people go and we could enjoy the sun and listen to the wind rustle the leaves in the trees. I read about Süd Tirol and started plans for our vacation there at the end of Juli. It should be pretty relaxing with lots of biking and hiking.. oh, and eating to do. This got me pretty hungry so we headed to the Hirschau Biergarten for a plate of spareribs and spicy barbecue sauce. Yummy.
I can’t believe it’s Wednesday already we’ve had such a happy almost lazy time except for this past Sunday, where we had two couples over for a dinner party. Alex and I are really getting into entertaining at home. We calculated that everything for 6 people costed less than what the two of us alone would have paid to go out to a normal restaurant. This is considering a bottle of wine at a restaurant costs about 40 Euro, we paid only 8 Euro for a excellent wine recommended by the experts at WOW (world of wine). So now, we recommend the dry Riesling from the vineyard called, Weingut Angulus in the Rheingau. Der Wein war prima! And the bottle makes for a beautiful outdoor candle holder.
Monkeying Around
My sis sent Alex and I a much needed care package from the States with this a card of a monkey. Her humor matches Alex’s almost to the T, where I’m left scratching my head, they both are rolling on the ground laughing. So now the monkey card is posted on the bathroom door. Thanks Tiff!
It’s another long weekend in Munich because Tuesday is a holiday. I think the equivalent in the US is Labor day. (The most of the world celebrates Labor Day in May because of the Chicago Haymarket Riot, but the US celebrates Labor Day in September.) There will be a celebration down the street around our neighborhood Maypole to welcome spring, although she already made her appearance a little early this year. I hope to take pictures of the town folk erecting the small tree at the top of the pole and maybe we’ll hear the polka version of the song “The Safety Dance.” Wouldn’t that be fun?
Even Europeans..
Handy Cam: reporting a ride by ketchup assault..Have a Mean Streak Or they have a strange sense of humor. I’m not sure what this poor bike did to deserve a ketchup bath and I image the owner won’t see the fun in discovering the decorative mess either. Perhaps this is a form of a t.p. (toilet paper) prank or leaving a flaming paper bag of dog doo on someone’s front porch. Seeing this ketchup-cycle reminded me of the condiment tricks of junior high, when kids would start Cuban sandwich pickle races by flicking the slimy disks at the window and then rooting on those translucent green circles as they slid a few inches before they stopped suspended on the hot glass above normal human reach. On second thought, perhaps every country has it’s mean/funny pranks.
