The rest of last week (Sept 19-23) was largely uninteresting. Not much to share besides: we put the deposit down on our apartment, got 3 of the exact same phone call about picking up the keys (Joe's lab mates said they think the guy must have short term memory loss...), celebrated Joe's birthday by watching soccer on a laptop in our room, and that's really about it. Sarah got a stomach bug sort of thing and Joe was spending 10+ hours in lab so it wasn't too much of an exciting time.
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| Lake Tegernsee, from the boardwalk-like area where you can rent boats! |
We decided to make up for it by going for a ridiculously gorgeous and scenic hike on Sunday! Joe planned the whole thing out, surprisingly, and led the way. We took the U-Bahn (subway) to the Bavarian regional train, called the BOB, and took that train south to the town of Tegernsee. It's a beautiful little town on a large lake (Lake Tegernsee), with a ton of hiking, as the lake is in the middle of mountains known as the Bavarian Pre-Alps. We picked a "shorter" hike, the Baumgartenschcneid trail, and hiked about 5 miles to the top and back. Between all the walking down to get to trains, around town, and to get to the start of the trail, we ended up walking around 11 miles total on Sunday! Sarah shared several photos on Facebook, and here are some of them, but for the full album (because Sarah can't just take "a few" pictures), here is a
link to a shared photo album with all of the pictures. Enjoy!
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| View from the top of the Baumgartenschneid peak |
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| "The hills are aliiiiiiive.....with the sound of muuuuuuusic" |
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| Of course there was a biergarten/restaurant in the middle of the trail! |
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| A good half of the hike was this steep. It was not a leisurely climb! |
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| We're trying to get better at taking selfies...we're not particularly great at it. |
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