DUMPLINED OUT

Underway now, started at Passau, a pleasant town 45mins away from Munich. Did a walk round the town to see the usual cathedrals, rathaus and landmarks. There have been some substantial floods here in the past. What do you global warming - weather catsrophe proponents make of the dates?

Had a nice visit to a a local small farming family who invited us in for afternoon tea & cakes. Interesting people who had that morning  just taken delivery of calf twins.

Moved into Czech Republic to a world heritage site - Cesky Krumlov. It has a long heritage since the 12th century and boasts a lot of no historic sites in a quiet, traffic free cobbled setting. The castle has a moat with no water, but how to keep invaders out, I hear you ask. They went for bears 

There is a local sculptor based here who is obsessed with feet & hands.

Interesting bridge building techniques in use. The church in view is St Vitus, anyone for a dance.

 Like their food here, plenty of handmade sweets & gingerbread. We went to lunch & had the guides recommendation of dumplings stuffed with plums & marzipan liberally coated in sugar. Huge serving. To add to that we had an even more massive fluffy pancakes with whipped cream, cherries & topped with even more sugar all washed down with a large glass of port. The 10000+ steps we achieved didn't even touch the calories needed to balance it out.