In English, the hotel name is “The White Lamb”. The tag line is “Make yourself at home”. Laughable, if it wasn’t so insulting to paying customers. More like “The Holl Family gives your family Holl.” Or, “The White Lamb is the black sheep of Hallstatt.”
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Gautrachtenfest
Beautiful horses, traditional Bavarian marching bands, creative village specialties displayed on wagon floats (villagers mending a fish net, chopping wood, or threshing grain, or a model of the village church), and children and adults dressed in their village tracht.
It’s Sunday. Did you go to Churches?
Our male host is a retired music conductor who fills in for organ players at different churches when necessary. He showed us the church organ which was quite a special experience. That’s him in the photo rehearsing.
Selfie With a Cow
She took us grocery shopping, dropped us off at a trailhead, and recommended we hike to this hut, have a drink, maybe hike further up. In any case, we were to entertain ourselves, and return around 6 pm.
A Walk With Mad King Ludwig
Any king that didn’t start a war is a good king. Our host would rather the king spend money on building castles, and fostering craftsmanship and art in Bavaria than sending people to get killed.
Swiss Tidbits
A room with this view.
An uphill climb in more ways than one.
Don’t look down!
Fantasize about living in a little Swiss village.
Making Friends on Mount Rigi
We met a woman who has been traveling once a month just to see the world. She’s winding down her life in London, and will be returning to her family’s Ashram in India next year. She wants a more fulfilling way of life.
I arrived in the U.S. when I was 21, and left when I was 42. What will I do with my life if I should live for another 21 years?
A Sudden and Violent Storm
The owner’s wife was screaming for help because the seat cushions, and salt and pepper shakers were getting blown away. Then, we realized things on our own table were getting blown over too.
Neuschwanstein in the Rain
For our Neuschwanstein visit, we were only able to get tickets for the 6:05 German tour. It started raining once we got off the bus near the castle, but it didn’t stop…
Day 40
We were really tired of the rich and oily food at restaurants, and just wanted something simple: instant noodles.