Winter Activities

It's starting to get pretty cold here now. Just last week it snowed, and the snow stayed until Saturday when it warmed up a little bit....a little bit. Although it's been colder I prefer it much more than rain.

Snow on Georg's farm

Am Donnerstag wir haben nach München gefahren, mit der Klasse. In München wir haben ein Film gesehen, "Fack ju Göhte". I understood heaps of the conversations, but missed a bit because by the time it took me to translate the words into English they had already finished that sentence. So I was a little bit behind them. Although all-in-all it was a great film, and quite funny. It was also filmed around München and Berlin, mainly. After the Film we caught the train to Rosenheim, stayed there for a couple of hours and then were picked up by Georg's mum.

On Saturday Georg, Maria (Georg's older sister), Kathi (Maria's friend) and I all went skiing at Hintertuxer Gletscher in Austria. You can ski there all year round because it's so high. We arrived at about 0930 caught three Gondola's up to 3250m and then we started skiing. We skied for about 1.5 hours and then went for lunch. Lunch was so good. You took a tray and you could get nearly any hot food you could think of. I had Schweinebraten mit Knödel my favourite Bavarian dish and Georg had Schnitzel mit Pommes. After lunch we went over to the other side of the mountain and went to see the Glacier. Although it was all covered in snow of course. After that it was time to go so we skied down the mountain as far as we could and then caught the Gondola down the rest of the way.

View from halfway up Hintertuxer

Sunday Georg, Lisi and I went to Söll in Austria and went Schlittenfahren (Tobogganing). We walked up for about 1.5 hours because the Gondola wasn't operating and then rode the Sled all the way back down. It was so fun and you could go so fast although you had to be careful not to drive off the edge, like I almost did twice. After coming down the mountain we drove to a 'Wirt' (Restaurant) for lunch. I ordered a Schweinebraten mit Knödel, of course, and Georg had another Schnitzel. It tasted so good, better than in Austria when we were skiing. The 'Wirt' was over 250 years old. It was built in 1786 and is still there today and it doesn't even look old.

Wirt

This week was mostly spent in the snow, which was great. Skiing was definitely the highlight.
Until next week, my last blog from Germany...
Matt