Monthly Archives: July 2009

Kaltenberg Knights' Tournament: festival

Kaltenberg Knights’ Tournament and Medieval markets

On 11 July it was to keep up the flavour of recent trips and thus time for another trip to the Upper Bavarian countryside a mere 50km west of Munich, precisely the village of Geltendorf. Our destination was the outstanding Kaltenberg Knights’ Tournament (Ritterturnier Kaltenberg) … Read More

hopfenfest mainburg: bettina and thomas

Hopfenfest Mainburg 2009

For the second part of the day we went to a local beer fest which was hold for my birthday – the so called “Hopfenfest” in Mainburg! A beer tent, fine wheat beer steins, fish on a stick, pretzel, mortifying live band and a grumpy … Read More

Royal Brunei Airlines, poster, neuschwanstein castle vs frankfurt

Neo-romantic times at Neuschwanstein Castle

A poster I encountered a very long time ago: Royal Brunei Airlines wants you to believe in one of Frankfurt’s fine sights: Neuschwanstein Castle!!! Take a closer look! Well, back to the story. This is the first post about the on goings of the 10th … Read More

open air empfenbach: festival

27th Festival Holledau – Open Air Empfenbach 2009

For the early days in July I decided to head back home to Bavaria. I had the longest journey from Dublin to Munich with Aer Lingus ever: At first 2 hours hanging at the departure lounge, then sitting in the airplane for about an hour … Read More