Art and Abart

How wonderful it is to be in an opera house where you can hear well from every seat. I saw Madam Butterfly from the very back row of the Pa...

Octoberfest officially started yesterday and the streets of Munich are full of Dirndls and Lederhosen. Shop window Inside the shop  ...

Australian Ugg boots seem to be popular in Germany. I have seen them in Hamburg (below) and Munich (below that)! The ones I saw in Hamburg y...

The Angel in St Michael's church in Munich Isn't she lovely?

"There must be more to Munich than this," I said to myself as I drank my espresso looking out the cafe window. Munich Street ...

Dirndls dirndls everywhere. .... Well after all, this is Munich and Octoberfest is around the corner. In every shop window there were dirndl...

As you walk along Munich's pedestrian street from the station you come to a building site covered with scaffolding . You don't see t...

On the long hours of the flights from Sydney to Munich I thought, 'This is too far - I must be crazy.'  Once I got here it didn'...

There are lots of bikes in Maribor and cars are banned from the city center. In Munich (below) there are more bikes than cars in the earl...

I had time before my train to Graz to go for a walk in Munich. Window displays in Germany are always professional and interesting to look at...