kaufbeuren in allgäu

despite the worst spring weather i can remember my father visits bavaria again. we have rain almost every day for at least 1 month. there were only two or three sunny days and only one of them we got the chance to stay longer at a lake, to sunbathe + swimm ...

 so what to do? let's visit some nearby cities when there are few hours wihout rain ⛅⛆

enjoy few pictures from kaufbeuren in allgäu. of course we liked its landmark, the fünfknopfturm tower from 1420. but our highlight today was something completely different: the unexpected visit in the bell tower of the biggest church as the priest came all the 150 steps up with us and explained a lot about his church, the bells and the city ... 👍😀😍

due to crazy corona lockdown measures were the restaurants closed even in their outside areas, so there were only few possibilities to grab some food to go and all the city looked and behaved like died out...

rosenbrauerei brewery

father + son /// vater + sohn

kaufbeuren

town square + town hall

coat of arms

fünfknopfturm

holy crescentia monastery ~ heilige crescentia

bell tower ...

more pictures here.

lake maisinger see

addendum june, 16th 2013: the bathing season for this year opened, finally :-)

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what a nice day at maisinger see, my favorite bavarian lake + beergarden :-)

well, the most folks in munich went to the oktoberfest which just started 2day, we have prefered to spent a day at  a nearby moor lake (marsh lake?). it was warm like a bathtub, my dear ... it is difficult 2 believe we have passed the middle of september yet :-)

water, sun, beer, food ... we do not really need much more, do we? btw, the beer garden at maisinger see  is a real insiders' tip when you are looking for tasty food (yummy, yummy chars! [~saibling]) and different types of bavarian beer from small nearby breweries which u cant get in the mass market addicted  grocery shop chains. 

well, after the long winters i do always forget how is that small lake called/written and where to find it, so lets be more clever this time and lets post a google map as well => just go to 'red A' between the two munich's big lakes close 2 pöcking:

of course, there are even more pictures (10) in my google album ... and 20 additional pics from our visit a week later, enjoy them as well :-)

ADDENDUM july 1st, 2012: folks, do you like to see also some other lakes? easy, just follow the link to my blog post about the (ugly) lake germering (germeringer see) where i have started a link library to interesting lakes in the munich area: here we go ~ enjoy