Jen and Dave: Adventuring

Today was Sunday. Rest day in Bavaria – all stores closed, and the city is out and about. So we packed the picnic we bought last night and headed for the park.

Englischer Garten is a huge park, blocks from our hotel, in the heart of the city. It features weaving streams for swimming or floating, trails for all manner of human-powered transportation, a lake, grassy fields, shading trees, a couple of monuments and several beer gardens.

So we walked! Then sat beside the river under a tree. Jen swam. Then hit up the beer garden for beverages, pretzels with a cheese ball called obatzda, a tomato and bocconcini salad, and their version of a beavertail (Dave didn’t catch what it was called), all to the sounds of Schlager (traditional bier garten music).

All in all, we put on more than 20 km on a day that reached 29 degrees, and loved it.