my father visits me in munich :-)

as i left my native czechoslovakia at an age of 19 many, many years ago, i did not spend much of my adult life with my parents ...

is it possible that my father has somehow nicer and more natural smile than me? 😄

two of us in the beer & oktoberfest museum. sober, of course.

cause of my ailing mother, almost all family's attention goes to her .... but i do have two parents, don't i? and i still carry a full bag of beliefs from my childhood which affect my way of life as well, don't i? of course, not all of them are true or relevant today, but they are still here ... if still in my current mood, i'll try to categorize my adopted beliefs below 😕
i don't know why, but recently i have a real need to understand my parents and the person who i really am much deeper and better. i'm getting old, wouldn't you say?

even if the geographical distance between us is for central-european scale quite big (950 km) and a journey always takes a long time as there are no direct flights and even no highway for the last 300 km in (central + eastern) slovakia, my father was quite often in munich or i was home in kosice in eastern slovakia ... but always only for a very short time and usually tied up with other family members, so we seldom have had more than 2 or 3 hours time to speak calmly ... it was time to change this situation, wasn't it?

what else? hmmmm, my father was always a person who conditioned by his mindset and enabled by his huge economic success helped us children and many other people along his way really a lot. i wonder if he will ever need a help from us? who knows? well, let's stay optimistic about the future (i hope i could become at least half that optimistic as my dad usually is 😂) and let's enjoy what the life prepared for us ....

tour #1: munich's christmas markets

christmas market at residence palace

xmas market at the old city gate isartor (first mentioned in 1337) with the probably biggest red wine punch pot in the world

the beer and oktoberfest museum with adjacent pub close to old city gate isartor

this tradition begins 1810       alcoholism was already in 1907 an issue. cheers 🍻

the first oktoberfest in 1810 was a celebration of the marriage of this two bavarian rulers. the beer gods bless them forever! 

there are many shows at oktoberfest, too ...

the farmers' gala is part of the oktoberfest since 1811 ~ landwirtschaftsfest ist seit 1811 teil vom oktoberfest

NSA ~ there was a political exhibition in the beer & oktoberfest museum, too 🍻

stop wars inside and outside your family 🚸

'tour' #2: munich - münchen neuaubing, old sleeping coach & metalworking factory site (schlafwagenfabrik)

tour #3: seefeld castle, walking through winter nature, lake pilsensee, andechs abbey,  ...

seefeld castle

walking through the forest even when some rain is on the agenda today ...

camping site at lake pilsensee

andechs abbey

i do write my blogs primarily for myself, you know? putting thoughts on 'paper' helps me to 'sort' them and sometimes also to stop them torture me ... thus it is not soul striptease (seelenstriptease), attention deficit (aufmerksamkeitsmangel) or the like, you see? so what about beliefs which i've taken over from family & society many years ago? and yes, i'm not going to reveal which family member infixed which belief 😃


TIMELESS TRUE:

• be honest
• justice ist important (gerechtigkeit)
• respect other people no matter on what social hierarchy level they are
• make the world a better place: repair, clean up, ...
• tbd

FALSE / OUTDATED:

• the life is a fight and only the hardest way is the right way
• only performance and achievements count ..... (thus feelings doesn't matter) .... => REALLY WRONG! this lack of attention caused me often do stupid / dangereous things 'cause the inner child in me wanted rather negative attention than none 😵😃 ... was it hard for me to be the eldest child, as two years later came my younger brother who needed and probably got all the attention? but it is just a guess as rationally (in my memories) i do not remember / feel that my parents did not take care of me or ignored me in some way ... thus it is also possible that my class clown attitude comes from completely different happenings, who knows? 
• be penny-wise and money saving wherever you can  .... => also completely wrong. we support what we buy. if we only buy the cheapest stuff, we often/mostly support the lowest quality and lowest working/ethical standards, sometimes even fraud (too cheap to be a genuine product/service). so let's better support products/ideas we believe in and be rather generous than stingy, will we?
• to provoke and to needle in conversation with the (nearest) people => also completely wrong. it is better to co-operate than to compete / to rival 
• the stork brings the babies
• tbd

.... MORE COMING SOON (or never) ...

more pictures here.

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andechs abbey

we have welcomed the chance to visit the andechs benedictines abbey (founded 1455) again and to learn more about the history of the monastery in a guided tour by one of the very few remaining monks out there organized by my old student dorm (studentenwohnheim) paulinum. i liked especially the possibility to see the otherwise restricted areas of the sacral treasuries and the old brewery.

today is andechs (monastery) mostly known as a pilgrimage destination and for its beer + agricultural products like milk and yoghurt. of course, andechs is loved by both the munich locals and tourists as a nice day trip destination, which you can easily combine with the visit to the nearby seefeld castle and / or to the lake ammersee.

just to make it sure, andechs is not an insider tip and never was. you have to be prepared for mass tourism, but it is nice anyway. and yes, you can reach it (from munich) not only by car but also by the regional train s-bahn line S8 to herrsching (at the lake ammersee) and then take a bus to andechs from there or - much more recommended - to walk through a nice forest in 45 - 50 minutes up to the monastery, will you? 😊

andechs abbey ~ kloster andechs

the church of the andechs monastery

i think this used to be a library. today there are some exhibitions / flea market and the like

beer and brewery are of course a important part of many monasteries

more pictures here.

pictures from our  former visits to andechs six years and seven years ago.

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autumn? seefeld + andechs + ammersee

what a beautiful day with the best of all wives today in seefeld + andechs + ammersee

what a strange clouds in castle seefeld, aren't they?

bach + berge in seefeld (see+feld)

schloss seefeld

hell, is that clouds as they used to be?

good-bye seefeld

kloster andechs (andechs abbey)

lake ammersee

more pictures here
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