Holiday Challenge: Three Kings Day
In Catholic Bavaria, but not the rest of Germany, January 6 is celebrated as Three Kings Day and it’a a legal holiday. Three children dressed as kings might ring your doorbell and sing a song and each one recite a verse. The Three Kings never visited us as long as we were living in Munich but out here in Gauting, just 17 km distant, the tradition is going strong. Darn, I forgot to get a picture of them when they came. This is the end of the Christmas season, tomorrow is the first day of school and life as normal – at last.
It was sunny but cold, temps around freezing. We rode our bikes to Leutstetten, a favorite Bavarian restaurant and beer garden in the summer. On a warm sunny day you can hardly find a space to park your bike but today we were the only cyclists. We didn’t eat in the beer garden, mind you.
Suzanne
I'm a US born ex-pat, having lived most of my adult life in Munich, Germany. Cycling and photography are my favorite things.
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I see the stones, and I think I see inlaid stones by the curb in the photo above it. Love the shadowed building and your bike ride to it!
Great shadow photos in the featured image and Leutstetten.
You just about have to be there at the right moment because things change quickly.
Loved your shadow shot. I trust you will forgive me for saying you appear to have the same long, shapely legs as Betty Grable. 😉
Or maybe as muscular as Jan Ulrich’s?
I was just judging by the shadow 😉
Glad you didn’t say I might have normal legs but appear to have a pin head!
What a nice ride and gorgeous shot of that tree shape in shadow.
If I moved there and the children came by singing the carols, I’d have no idea what to do. Give them candy like Hallloween?…. I mean, with the jack-o-lanterns still out and everything, I would be experiencing some cultural confusion.