Wallberg

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Montaigne

Nausea is continuing but had a great afternoon yesterday. It was a lovely sunny day and another patient who is here with her father invited us to go with them to the next village and get the cable car up Wallberg (a mountain). It was lovely. Perfect weather and the view was fabulous. Great view of the lake we are on and the little towns surrounding it. Could even see Munich in the distance. On the other side were mountains as far as the eye could see including the Austrian alps which still has some snow on some of the mountains.

After we had a good look at the view we went to the Panorama Restaurant which is on top of the mountain and had a lovely lunch. I had mushroom soup made from local forest mushrooms, very delicious.

After lunch we had a bit more of a look around at the view. There is a small rise on top of the mountain with a little church on it and with a viewing platform all around it. The church was closed but the view was great.

We then noticed that there were paragliders launching off from the mountain on the lake side. It was fascinating to watch them prepare and take off. Mostly they were paragliders, a few were hang gliders. Good mixture of men and women and some tandems. There were so many in the sky at once it was a wonder they didn't crash in to one another. When they took off there was a wonderful sound of the canopy filling with air, a swooshing sound. The whole thing was quite mesmerising and we stayed watching them till 4.30 pm. We had to leave then as the last cable car down left at 5 pm and although the walk down the mountain would have been delightful in the late afternoon sun it was beyond my abilities at this point. I now have paragliding on my bucket list! It looks wonderful.

Very tired but happy at the end of the day and went to our apartment contented that we had made the most of a beautiful summers day in Bavaria.


surviving and thriving

Linda