… despite the crashed hard drive in the laptop, I’m prepared to confront the morning.
Hans made breakfast, and I really do mean that, because today is Himmelfahrt, Ascenscion Day, and everywhere is closed, including the bakeries. What Hans did was to bake a loaf of bread and if I knew anyone in France who could bake bread quite like that, I’d never ever visit a bakery ever again.
With it being a Bank Holiday, theres a festival down the road in the town of Friesing. And in a German festival, they dont bother with just a simple pie hut or a French buvette, they go the whole hog, with beer tent and ooom-pah band.
And much to my complete surprise, one of the food stalls is selling just vegan roducts so I celebrate Himmelfahrt and the vegan pie hut with a late of falafel.
There are all kinds of things and all types of entertainment going on here too, including a barber’s shop quartet. Complete with real barbers too, it has to be said.
The young lad on the right isn’t all that impressed, is he? Mind you, the music wasn’t my style either although there was no disputing the ability of the singers. That’s the kind of thing that you can’t deny.
In the evening we went to the beer garden just down the road from Hans’ apartment.
It’s the centre of the local universe and seeing as how Hans knows everyone around here, we ended up being quite a crowd. Strawberry Moose met plenty of new friends and became quite popular with the locals.
another thing about this area is once again to do with vegan food. Theres an ice-cream parlour in one of the array of shops around the beer garden and so I wandered off, more in hope than expectation, to see what they had.
Sure enough, there was a choice of about 10 flavours of vegan ice cream (mostly sorbets, but vegan none-the-less) and so I made the most of the opportunity.
Back at the apartment, I had left the laptop running all day to see if it might repair itself past the point at which it keeps stalling. But to no avail. I’m going to have to write this off as a total loss, I reckon.
Thats a catastrophe, but it can’t be helped.
