A Day without Exercise is like . . . Heaven?
Tuesday, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and decided that this would be a good day to do no exercise, in fact, to be a car tourist. Mark agreed to the touring, but only after he did a three hour bicycling tour to the nearby town of Mittenwald.
Around lunch time, Mark took me to a place he had visited and hiked the day before in the town of Farchant not far from Garmisch, where there is an outdoor forestry tour, a set of stations which illustrate the kinds of trees that inhabit the local forests, the age of trees, items that are made out of trees (like wooden sculptures), and so on. We sat on a bench not too far from our car to eat the lunch he had made for himself at breakfast and which he shared. We had purchased strawberries and had other fresh fruit to supplement the dinner.
Our goal was to visit Ettal and Oberammergau. Our first stop after lunch was the same store we had visited last year in the rain, on our way to the Benedictine monastery which dates to 1330. Edward looks to be in his early 30s, has a round face with round glasses, and crafts all of the objects in his store which are works of art and inexpensive, and many of you received wooden souvenirs for Christmas last year. He had his workshop open today and showed us the chestnut which he had gathered for future projects.
Next we went down the road to the Monastery and then the rain came. It seems that we will only have wet memories of Ettal because when we are here, it rains. We ran into a café to sit out the rain which only got worse. To help us tolerate the inconvenience, we ordered a cherry cake and coffee and tea, read the latest Herald Tribune, and called Laura for her 29th birthday and caught up on her news (they celebrated with 30 guests and lots of food on Saturday).
When the rain let up, we visited the old monastery (which still has monks who run a private high school and make fruit wines and liqueurs) and then drove a few kilometers further to Oberammergau where we visited the church and drove around town.
Came back later and went to eat at 7:30! So the day without exercise was a huge success—just didn’t eat any dessert last night!
Around lunch time, Mark took me to a place he had visited and hiked the day before in the town of Farchant not far from Garmisch, where there is an outdoor forestry tour, a set of stations which illustrate the kinds of trees that inhabit the local forests, the age of trees, items that are made out of trees (like wooden sculptures), and so on. We sat on a bench not too far from our car to eat the lunch he had made for himself at breakfast and which he shared. We had purchased strawberries and had other fresh fruit to supplement the dinner.
Our goal was to visit Ettal and Oberammergau. Our first stop after lunch was the same store we had visited last year in the rain, on our way to the Benedictine monastery which dates to 1330. Edward looks to be in his early 30s, has a round face with round glasses, and crafts all of the objects in his store which are works of art and inexpensive, and many of you received wooden souvenirs for Christmas last year. He had his workshop open today and showed us the chestnut which he had gathered for future projects.
Next we went down the road to the Monastery and then the rain came. It seems that we will only have wet memories of Ettal because when we are here, it rains. We ran into a café to sit out the rain which only got worse. To help us tolerate the inconvenience, we ordered a cherry cake and coffee and tea, read the latest Herald Tribune, and called Laura for her 29th birthday and caught up on her news (they celebrated with 30 guests and lots of food on Saturday).
When the rain let up, we visited the old monastery (which still has monks who run a private high school and make fruit wines and liqueurs) and then drove a few kilometers further to Oberammergau where we visited the church and drove around town.
Came back later and went to eat at 7:30! So the day without exercise was a huge success—just didn’t eat any dessert last night!
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