I had actually gone to a party the night before our (very) early train to Lindau and therefore spent most of the ride konked out. But I did manage to wake up long enough to see this sight of the lake.
Gruess Gott!
It was decided that since it's more difficult to get back to Munich from another country, we went first to St. Gallen. The city is quite small and cute, the main attraction being the UNESCO heritage listed baroque Abbey of St. Gall, located in what I was told is a highly impressive old town.
Having said that, one of the first things we saw after leaving the Hauptbahnhof was this super modern red square.
There's also this super-cute bear!
But a few streets later, we were pretty much in what seemed like the main square of the old town.
Buildings of various ages side by side
A lot of the buildings had some nice architectural touches, such as the carvings around this window.
There's a sculpture of a guy holding up that turret!
St. Gallen was founded by the Irish monk Gallus, about whom I'd never heard of before coming here. He built a hermitage in the area and his main legend is about how he taught a bear to fetch wood for him! That's a pretty cool skill in my opinon! The abbey was founded about a century after his death.
But they've rebuilt the hermitage in the abbey courtyard just in case you were wondering what it might have looked like!
Although I'm going to guess that it wasn't as comfy as this.
Seriously, I think this looks like a pretty cool cubby!
Things that are not allowed in the courtyard include drug users and homeless people - not very charitable!
Doing some Asian poses in the courtyard
And the jetstar jump.
We also witnessed some sort of procession, complete with mediaeval garb
Which Thiago decided to join
The main attractions of St. Gallen are the cathedral and the abbey library. The library itself is particularly nice to look and in such precious condition that not only is photography not allowed, but you have to wear special felt slippers over your own shoes when entering! I'm sure that's a good thing to protect the antique floor but it made shuffling and sliding around the library a bit precarious at times! It could have done some damage to the books and shelves!
The baroque interior of the cathedral - lovely!
Great troemp l'oeil ceiling
As a side story, I'd just like to have a word about our lunch in St. Gallen. Being in the German part of the Switzerland and quite Catholic to boot, pretty much everything was closed. We decided that we should eat somewhere that was open and fast, meaning that we ended up in McDonalds. Although I can now add a seventh country in which I've eaten Maccas, Switzerland is without a doubt THE MOST EXPENSIVE. I believe I paid the equivalent of €10 for a small meal!
Anyway, after lunch we made it back to Lindau. The weather had also slightly cleared up and it was pretty sunny!
Which made looking out over the lake harbour pretty nice! The harbour is guarded by a lighthouse and a statue of the Bavarian lion
And I was a normal tourist for once
There were quite a few people out on the lake side...
Listening to the oompa band...
Including this sproggie!
I think his owner was telling me his name was Wolfgang. He certainly looked like a little wolf!
I also decided it was time to go to a cafe and get some real spaghetti eis!
(Hi Mischka! It was awesome!)
Looking back towards the harbour from the lion
It was a pretty pleasant Spring day and the flowers and blossoms were out in force
Lindau also has an impressively cute old town which which we explored.
The Altes Rathaus of Lindau. Schoen!
A Chagall exhibition was going on in the Stadtmuseum
An evil witch has a princess imprisoned in this tower
Hey, that slide looks like an elephant!
Anyway, it was a pretty nice (if somewhat tiring) day. Trips to Lindau are on the Bayern Ticket (Best. Deal. Ever) and take about 3.5 hours, St. Gallen is about another 45 mins from Lindau and is part of the Schengen (non-passport) zone.
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SPAGHETTI EYE SCREAM AND CUTE SPROGS BEST TIME EVERRRRRRR!!!!!
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