Vilshofen

We spent a day at "home" on this day, just catching our breath. I knitted and Tim read.

We did go out for a morning walk around Vilshofen though, and took photos of some of the sights, and I bought some wool to make this scarf for Tim.

This is the main street of Vilshofen, still decorated for Christmas. I wonder who decides what colour the buildings are - is it individual building owners? And what would they do if the owner next door painted theirs a clashing colour?!

The Vils River flows through Vilshofen, and the ducks were having a bit of "fun" swimming in the close-to-freezing river - there was a frozen layer over most of it.

This is a benedictine monastery in Vilshofen, as seen from Winfried and Ursula's house. In the afternoon, Ursula took us for a drive to see it, and we also went inside to see a mission museum, of artefacts collected from Africa by missionaries from the monastery. The following two photos were taken from the monastery carpark.

After the monastery we went to an Aldi-style supermarket (Ursula was astounded that we actually have Aldi in Australia) - very much a variety supermarket, with food as well. I had offered to make dinner for them that night - a stirfry - and we had to get supplies, as it was not something Ursula normally cooked, and she didn't have any sauces that I would normally use.

I can't remember which day it was, but it could have been this day that in our travels we dropped over to Austria for petrol - it was about 25 euro cents cheaper than in Germany, and wasn't that far away. So I can say I have been to Austria. For petrol.

In the evening we went with Winfried to his favourite local watering hole, and one of Winfried's friends, Rudi, had spent some time in Australia when he was younger. He spoke English and was very pleased to be able to practise it with us! The publican was delighted to have some Australians in his establishment, and kept giving us drinks on the house.