Passau dult

No, I have no idea what 'dult' means, but it is like a spring octoberfest.  There are rides and games, food (many pretzels with emmental cheese) and a row of booths selling everything from clothes to jewelry, brushes and lots of socks.  But the focus of this event is drinking -- beer mostly.  There are 2 huge beer halls with entertainment (mostly music) and a number of lesser beergardens and booths.  Oh, the other unusual thing about this fair is that about half of all the people are in 'tracht' costumes -- that means leather knickers, or shorts for men with a checked shirt and a vest, and a dirndl for females -- of all ages.  Some of the women are in lederhosen as well.  Most of the leather pants have no zip but rather a large flap front and some lovely flowers painted on the leather.  Also, it appears it is an event for young people -- us older visitors were in the small minority.

First thing this morning we scouted out some of the city we had not seen yesterday -- the Dom and the market in the Dom platz.  Yes, we bought the dandelion flower cough syrup.  Then it was on to the Glass Museum.  I have NEVER seen such a variety of glass work and glass.  There were pieces from the early 1800s to about 1940.  Evidently glass ingredients were plentiful in Bavaria because it became a centre for glass production and innovation for many years.  Stunning pieces, amazing colours, collections (like the sets of glasses of Empress Sissy all with gold and the imperial crest) are on about 4 flours in a thousand year old building on the Danube waterfront.

We stopped in an outdoor wirtshaus for lunch.  Ian had a pork roast and dumplings, me, the southern german version of mac and cheese -- with spatzle.  Ultimate comfort food from two cultures!

We are all set for tomorrow's transfer to the boat -- have a van booked to move us and Richard Jennie and the girls (plus all the luggage) to the boat at 3 pm.  They have arrived in Germany but are spending the night near the Munich airport to make the trip easier for the girls.

Looking forward to the next week!

my pictures are not automatically being loaded from my phone to the google cloud so I will just post them on facebook separately.