Beautiful Bavaria

Starnberger See, Bavaria.

Very quick post today to give you the link of a few photos that we took on our mini holiday to Munich and Seeshaupt in Bavaria. I realised that I had never been to Germany during the summer, it's rather beautiful. Everyone should go! The weather was perfectly hot, meaning that it actually felt like a proper summer. Sweat and swimming included. Ironically Sweden was hot while we were away with tops of at least 30 degrees. Luckily it's all back to normal now with a balmy 17 degrees and overcast with random downpours requiring an umbrella at all times, especially if it looks sunny, because it's all a trick. Sweden is truly remarkable when it can rain and all you can see is blue sky.

Falsterbo, Skåne, Sweden

My friends and I did actually make it to the beach last week. We had a perfectly hot windless day and headed down to Falsterbo by train/bus. It was my first Swedish beach experience and it was even hot enough to swim. For a Swedish beach it did pretty well for itself, there was sun, sand, water and lots of leathery tanned people. To put it bluntly, this Swedish beach (and I'll go out on a limb and say nearly all Swedish beaches) do not compare to Aussie ones. Think of the Baltic Sea as a very very shallow calm lake where you can walk for at least a kilometre before you are fully submerged. For a half drowning/half swimming enthusiast like myself, it's perfect! Although it does take the excitement out of being dumped by choppy waves, getting sand rash on one's chin when one is forced to do backwards underwater somersaults and swallowing water the wrong way so it goes up one's nose and all one's boogers fall out.
 

A Munchkin at the beach!