Snow returns

Grant gets his fibre - chocolate coated fruit!

People asked us why we would go to Germany in the winter. Madness, really. But days like today make it seem just right. We woke to 5cm of fresh snow and a clear sky. It would be pretty miserable being here with it just being cold, but cold and snow seems just right.

In the Englischer Garden

We walked to the Deutches Museum, a huge place with a nod to virtually every kind of technology you can imagine. We wandered for ages, as you do in museums, but only about half of the exhibits had an English description, so it wasn't so easy to understand. It hasn't quite got the Te Papa touch yet, where you can try lots of things out. Wanting to escape the hubbub of hundreds of school children, we went north to the Englischer Gardens, a huge 5 x 1 km expanse of woods and gardens just to the north of the old town. It was laid out by an Englishman  and then planted in 1788 by Karl Theodor. It was very beautiful in the snow, and hardly a soul there (just as I like it). Grant's sensitivity to cold required a visit to a cafe and a hot chocolate, so we ended up in the Museum of Modern Art. Bought a print just to say we'd been there. We dared to go into an art gallery in one of the swish streets near the centre to look at some art by an American called Rizzi (we had seen some at one of our host's place), and had to act totally nonchalant when the proprietor told us the price for the piece we were looking at - 4500 Euros!

Yes please!

It is now snowing heavily outside so it will be thick on the ground tomorrow. We are going north to Kulmbach tomorrow to stay with Ricci and her mum.