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merkygloom · 1 year

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Brezel's Valentine's day present arrived early!

#not art #brezel #parrot #budgie #birdblr #pet birds #budgerigar #parakeet

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art-of-mathematics · 10 months

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What is wrong in this picture?

#hint: i already posted pics of these some weeks ago #topology #mug #brezel #torus #mathy #squishy math #math #mathematics

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culinaryplating · 7 months

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#food #culinary plating #german food #wurst #pretzel #brezel #beer

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septembergold · 4 months

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#brezel #hanukkah #christmas #yule #snacks #germany

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fallingforchristmasworld · 1 year

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#sweet marshmallows #do you wanna build a snowman #cookies for santa #so yummy #brezel #chocolate cookies #deliciusfood #time for sweets #christmas sweets #yummie

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shutterandsentence · 2 years

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Photo: Munich, Germany

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gonkaneda · 1 year

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#painting #hotguy #Brezel

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lordbrezel · 1 year

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Um meine URL zu rechtfertigen habe ich ein par Brezel gebacken.

#They are pure chonk cause i miscalculated how much they grow #now i can legally use my url without shame #Brezel

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greenbagjosh · 10 months

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20 - 21 June 1998 - A weekend in Salzburg - crazy pretzels and sliding down in the Berchtesgaden underground salt mine

21 June 1998

Hi everyone

Today and tomorrow, twenty years ago, I was in Salzburg, in kangaroo-less Austria, and the Berchtesgadener Land in southeasternmost Germany. Because I would not be paid until a week or so later, I had to spend a night in a hostel and eat cheap. I found a good hostel just southeast of downtown Salzburg, called the Eduard Heinrich Haus. I reserved my room by phone, on Friday on a payphone. (Payphones in 2018 are hard to find anymore)

Originally I was not supposed to go to Salzburg the weekend of the 20th/21st June, but rather on the 19th my work colleagues were supposed to go mountain climbing (actually hiking which could as well be climbing!) south of Holzkirchen. That was postponed until the 26th because of the weather forecast for the 19th – in the mountains of Bavaria, the weather can change unexpectedly, and it is hard to find shelter, so we made the safe decision to wait until the 26th.

From Munich to Salzburg, the Schönes Wochenende ticket that cost 35 DM, was valid all weekend on the slow trains. I took the Regional Express from Munich Ostbahnhof via Rosenheim and Freilassing. The train was not air conditioned, as were many Regional Express trains at the time, so it was an annoyance to some passengers, to slide the window down when going over 50 mph, particularly between Munich Ost and Rosenheim. I think I arrived around 10:30 AM in Salzburg Hbf. As I noted from 7th June 1998, there was no longer any formal customs between Germany and Austria as a result of the Schengen Agreement, so the station customs at Salzburg Hbf I remembered in operation in June 1997, for 1998 it was completely unmanned. It was still standing in December 2001/August 2002, and I think also in August 2004 when I returned for a day visit, but sometime in 2005, it was demolished to make room for more train platforms and was complete around February 2012.

I went to the ticket hall, and then bought a day pass for the Salzburg Verkehrsbetriebe for the city and also for the zones including Lamprechtshausen and also Trimmelkam, as I was curious about riding the Lokalbahn, which is now the S-1 line. In today's money it would be EUR 13.60, now 190 Schilling if today's exchange rate of ATS 13.9 = EUR 1.00 were to be used, but it was cheaper 20 years ago. It was a good ride up to Lamprechtshausen. I bought myself a big bottle of Almdudler (it is herbal and tastes like fizzy iced tea) at the Billa grocery store, of which I posted a photo of it while waiting for a bus in Wildshut. From Lamprechtshausen I took the "shuttle line" to Bürmoos in Oberösterreich. There was not much to see or do, and I was not quite thirsty enough to drink any of the Almdudler while waiting for the train to return to Bürmoos and on to Salzburg, so somehow I walked to Wildshut. I think I took an hour to get there. It was sunny and I think about the 90s. I caught the bus that went on to Oberndorf where the S-1 would take me back to Salzburg. I was starting to get a headache so I drank some of the Almdudler but it was not much use. I went back to Hbf to fetch my clothes bag and headed for the hostel. I had to take trolley bus 51 and exit at Egger-Lienz-Straße and walk a half mile towards the Salzach bank more or less. My bed in the room was ready, and I took a nap for about two hours, and listened to the former "Blue Danube Radio" station. The station is now part of the independent channel FM4. I remember a story about the Empress Sisi mentioned on the broadcast.

I could not stay at the hostel for so long, as I did not come to Salzburg just to sleep all day. I had to go back to the Altstadt to see what was going on. As the 1998 FIFA World Cup was still in group stage, there were two matches. One was Belgium vs Mexico, and the other was Netherlands vs South Korea. I did not have any internet at the time, even a "smart phone", so back in 1998, there would be internet set up and probably 50 people or so would wait in line, waiting 15 to 20 minutes to get a turn. I think I waited a whole hour. Grumpy-Old-Man would say "That's the way it was, and we *liked* it!" Now everyone can just skip that and use their smartphone. I thought of going up to the top of the castle but I decided it was getting too late for that. I think I had a "Käsekreiner" and can of Stiegl beer for dinner, took a bus to the Parsch district, I guess for sentimental reasons, and when it was dark, I went back to the hostel. Back then I did not know that the Sacher Hotel was across the Salzach from the Altstadt, until I saw an ad sometime in July 1998. It was out of my price range at the time anyway.

Sunday morning the 21st was as sunny as Saturday. That was the day I was going to go to the Schloß Salzburg by cable car. I had breakfast at the hostel, washed up, checked out, then took bus 51 to Salzburg Hbf to leave my clothes bag. I went to the castle by cable car. At the top, there was a very good panoramic view, not just of the , but also towards Maxglan, Hallein and even a little bit of Tirol. And also the Berchtesgadener Land which I would visit later that day. After I took the cable car down, I walked around and found a pretzel seller. They had so many kinds of soft pretzels that I chose three, all of them about 10 inches wide. One with ham and cheese, one with just salt, and the other split and filled with chocolate. I took them along and then after taking the bus to Maxglan, I ate the ham and cheese pretzel, maybe one more. By that time I think I had seen enough of Salzburg. I was not much of a fan of Sound of Music so I did not go on that tour. It was time to leave Austria and then return to Germany.

I boarded, I think 1:30 PM, the train at Salzburg Hbf, for Berchtesgaden via Freilassing. It arrived in Berchtesgaden, the end of the line, at 3 PM. I thought of going to Kehlsteinhaus / Eagles Nest (would do that on 19th July 1998), but I settled on the Salzbergwerke, the salt mine. It is basically a 10 minute train ride inside the mountain, a walk through the tunnels, sliding down and also a boat ride through the salt pool. Everyone is required to wear a rented salt mine overall (somewhere I have a selfie!) and stay with the guide at all times. In comparison to the upper 80s temperatures, the inside of the mountain was about the low 50s. It is constant year round, as I would find out later, namely in February 2012 when I visited another salt mine in Bad Dürrnberg near Hallein. Coming out of the salt mine was not so fun, after it being so cool inside. Oh no it's so hot! The walk back to the rail station was not pleasant but I had a surprise going back to Munich. The train that arrived in Berchtesgaden as an Intercity train, was returning to Munich as a Regional Express, it was air conditioned and my Schönes Wochenend Ticket was also valid at no extra charge. What was the catch? It had to make its scheduled stops. But I did not mind.

I think I arrived at München Hbf about 8:30 or 9 PM, went to work the next day. The weather forecast for Friday 26 June would be mostly sunny, for my colleagues, excellent weather for mountain climbing. I will tell about that sometime next week, what that all entailed. No one got hurt (badly), everyone survived. And I even had a chance to see a pre-production BMW Z3-based E36 series coupe - probably the coolest car I saw all that year.

Well, have a nice rest of the week, everyone. There were no "foreign" journeys - in relation to Germany - expected until Friday 10th July 1998.