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Had an unpleasant experience after breakfast when the bits of fat in the salami I had just eaten decided to climb back up and lodge in my throat. It didn't block my breathing, but I was coughing quite badly and rather scared until I worked out what was going on. I took a tablet to calm down, and it all worked itself out eventually.  Left the apartment to catch the U-Bahn and then a train to Gauting. It must have been a holiday because there was no sign of anyone going to work, and the trains were few and far between. Also -- as I discovered later -- all the shops were closed. Luckily I had bought milk yesterday, but if I hadn't I would have been stuck, for the second time in a week. I didn't have too long to wait till the DB train arrived, and it was about a half-hour trip, first east and then south, on a nearly deserted train. Gauting is a picturesque little town, slightly touristy and vaguely Alpine in its feel; but there were long queues at the only two open coffee shops

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On Wed., 15 May 2019, 07:35 Jon Jermey, < jonjermey@gmail.com > wrote:

I was determined to use up the last third of my combined ticket, so I took a train out of Zone 1 to the third Deutschesmuseum, in an old airfield to the north. It was the equivalent of $11  for a one-way trip taking twenty minutes from the Hauptbahnhof; no wonder people in Europe don't travel very far. One there I discovered that there was yet another schloss in the vicinity, with a large open garden, so I strolled in there and had a look around. This one was baroque-style and completely symmetrical around a central canal; this saved time, since I only had to see one side. There were little black squirrels in the grass, and once again I saw a deer -- quite close up and seemingly undisturbed till it heard the voices of an old couple coming the other way. Just call me Francis of Assisi. I could have viewed the interior and its artworks, but I decided to cut my schlosses and walk to the museum. It's set in empty grasslands, and I found the building before I even knew what it was.

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Frogs attached maybe.

Definitely rainy, so a good day for museums. I looked up the closest and walked north along the river Iser to the Deutsches Museum of Technology. The walk itself was interesting; the river is quite big and quite fast, and obviously floods now and then, so on the eastern side there is a broad stretch of empty ground for it to occupy. I was able to walk along here most of the way without getting my feet too wet, and it was a popular spot with other walkers and cyclists -- especially those with dogs. The museum is on an island, and the river actually splits in two before that, with one side running level for boats and the other going over a weir. It didn't look navigable at the moment, though -- it was running fast and I guessed it was fairly shallow. And the water is an odd greyish-white colour, possibly from limestone. The local water supply is quite hard. The reviews were a bit mixed on this, so I didn't know what to expect, but it turned out to be a highlight of the trip. The

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Museums here are closed on Monday, I suppose in solidarity with the shops that close on Sunday, and rain was predicted, so I thought I would hedge my bets and head for Schloss Nymphenburg, which is the former Archduke and Elector's summer palace and family residence on what was once the outskirts of town. They say it used to take two hours for them to get here, which I guess beats moving from Moscow to St Petersburg. I got there at 9 when the building itself was being opened. I hadn't realised that the gardens were open from 6, and since the rain was holding off I decided to have  a look around them first. They're divided in two by a big artificial canal down the middle, so I took the north side and took a few side trails. They are pretty big, and not well signposted; I wouldn't have been game to wander off without my trusty GPS at hand. As it was I took a few side trails and soon found myself confronting a chamois; about 30m away at first, calmly standing beside the tr

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I must have forgotten one of my own rules when I booked today's trip -- never travel on Sundays. Help desks are unattended, facilities are unavailable and schedules are mucked up. The first part was fine -- I walked to Friedrichshafen station, only getting lost in the old town once, then got on a crowded local train to Lindau, which I had flown over the day before. Lindau is very odd -- it's on an island in the lake, connected to the mainland by a few rail lines and one separate road bridge; so all the rail traffic has to go across the bridge to the station -- which takes up about a third of the island -- and then back again. From what I could see the rest of the town was quite attractive, but I didn't have time this morning to explore. I crossed to Platform 1, which was tucked away out of sight, and prepared to catch the reserved train to Munich.  As before, there was a sign on the platform indicating which carriages would stop where, but this time the driver didn't bo

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Drizzly and grey in the morning, with nothing particular to do, so I walked along the lake in the other, westerly direction. Again, it wasn't possible to get close to it very often because the foreshore was divided up into private plots. These are all fenced off, sometimes with barbed wire, and they seem to belong to the landholders on the slope above, so it goes house and land -- walking and bike track -- lake foreshore. I suppose we should be grateful they allow a track at all; certainly that's often not the case in Sydney. I walked for about an hour and a half, and then found a road up the slope to a little local railway station. Local trains are relatively infrequent, but I found there was one in about twenty minutes, so I settled down to wait. A few people turned up soon and at least confirmed that I was in the right place. The train, when it came, was one of the two-decker ones, with seats upstairs in a 'lounge' and open space in the bottom deck for bicycles and w

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I didn't get to try frankfurts in Frankfurt, but I have tried them now in Friedrichshafen, where they go under the name of Rotwurst, and I can't say they're any nicer or more digestible than their Australian equivalents. Started today at the Zeppelin museum in town, where they have an enormous collection of material related to lighter-than-air craft, including all the crashes -- very reassuring -- and the history of the airship. In particular they have a mock-up of the interior of the passenger areas of the Hindenburg, which are just astonishing -- like a cruise liner in the sky. They had a good deal of English signage, although the boring details were mainly in German, which was fine. Got a bus then out to the Dornier Museum, in the old Dornier factory next to the airfield at the north-east end of town. There were only four of us on the bus, but the driver didn't stop at the museum but whizzed past to the next stop. Luckily it wasn't far to walk back. Dornier no lo

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