After the Jet Lag: Germany 2019, pt. 4

At this point in my travel journal, we have made it to Monday, June 17.

[To catch up, here are links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3

and to look ahead Part 5]

Having spent the night south-ish of Munich in Oberhaching, my (2nd) cousin, son Andrew, daughter Anna, and I started our trip towards our final destination of this trip:  Holzkirchen.  

My son will be a senior at his university this fall, and he had been accepted to study abroad, studying German (his minor) at a language institute in Holzkirchen.  This program has been going on since 1961 through the University of Kansas, which allows other university students to join.  Students travel within Germany for the first 10 days of the program and intermittently throughout, but also take courses (for college credit) in German grammar, conversation, language, history, and culture while living with a host family.

Because we got an early(ish) start to our day, we decided to take an excursion to Tegernsee, a lake-side town near Holzkirchen.  The weather was AMAZING and the views of the pre-Alpine town and lake were breath-taking!  

But first:  Coffee.

We walked around the town a little while, took in the beautiful Rathaus (city hall) and other sites. 

And then we found a lovely restaurant to enjoy our lunch.  I had an amazing Tagliatelle noodle dish with a creamy Pfifferlinge sauce.  Pfifferlinge are mushrooms, specifically, golden chanterelle mushrooms that have a very mild flavor.  They grow in Europe from July until about October.  

photo source

this is not my dish - but one very much like it

w/ RECIPE:  source

My cousin enjoyed a more traditional Bavarian dish:  Schweinshaxe (roasted ham hock).  

LOVE outside dining in Germany!

We needed to check into the Airbnb apartment I had rented for the next 2 days around 3 p.m.  Our host met us to show us around.  She was very friendly and helpful.  The whole Airbnb thing was very cost-efficient, and to get a whole "apartment" for equal to (or actually LESS THAN) a hotel room was something I will DEFINITELY do again!!  

(eat-in kitchen)

(living room w/ TV - futon makes a bed)

(sleeping area w/ a king-sized bed)

And the view of the Alps in the distance from our little balcony was lovely!  My only regret is we didn't have more time to just spend enjoying our little home-away-from-home:

And soon it was time to get my son to his hotel, which for the first night was in the nearby town of Sauerlach.  And it was time to say "Auf wiedersehen!"  We've been looking forward to and preparing for this program for so long that I think it made the good-bye easier because I was so excited for him to have this opportunity!  He will be home August 6th.

Because we weren't quite ready to say good-bye to my cousin, we stopped for some ice cream and espresso at an Eiscafe in Sauerlach's little town center.   Apparently their city symbol is a wild boar, which of course we had to take a picture with because my son attends the University of Arkansas (WOOOO PIG SOOIE!  Arkansas Razorbacks!).

My cousin did need to make her way back to Frankfurt ... and we did need to make our way back to Holzkirchen ... and so we said our good-byes.  Just then, Andrew and his new roommate came down the street where they had been exploring the town.  Some of the students from the group were delayed, and so their dinner together at the hotel was delayed as well.  It was nice to get one last glimpse of him and meet his roomie.  So, we all said good-bye AGAIN ... 

Then Anna and I took the local streetcar two stations back to Holzkirchen and walked to our apartment.  Then we walked to a grocery story and bought Broetchen, ham, cheese, Senf (mustard), chips, and Nutella for our dinner - and breakfast for tomorrow. We settled in for the night ... and that was the end of another day in Germany.