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Landshut – a few notes

Landshut is a very interesting and beautiful place to visit. The old buildings, the rivers and all of the services that make it a very livable place as well. Here are just a few parting notes.

You can tell from this I like wheat beers in Germany. This is a very nice one
I found this brewery to be exceptional
On the way to the castle, going up the steps, you will pass Ristorante Rossini. It is exceptional food and the service is more than you could expect from any restaurant. Just look at the fresh basil picked from the garden. In addition they are growing basil on the table so you can pick it off and put it in your food. This pizza was very delicious and the Vegetarian ravioli with the beautiful cream sauce, almost like a four cheese, was very rich but not overly.
Even here you see hang gliding
The pizza at Pizzeria Pomodoro & Mozzarella is also exceptional. We ate here three times it was so good.
The neighboring town of Freising had some amazing history associated with one of the popes, the retired one, along with some important political stories for Bavaria.
There is constant improvement in the city. It’s such a nice place to walk around.
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verona – romeo and Juliet

so I think you understand the story of Romeo and Juliet. But now you are going to hear the rest of the story. This famous building, I have not conclusively determined, may or may not have been the building Shakespeare went to in describing his play. What I hear from local people is that Julia was a real person but lived in a different house in another part of town which is now a shop. But this is a nice tourist attraction where everyone is supposed to go to the bronze statue of Juliet and touch her boob. So you can go visit a house that Shakespeare may or may not have visited to try to experience a story that may or may not have happened. But the building ownership records are clear. Go to Verona and dig more for the rest of the story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet

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Pride Munich 2024

The Pride March was right in the center of Munich. It was interesting to see the first parade since the Phuket vegetarian festival when people stuck sharp things in their bodies (1995) and the first stage event since Tony Bennett in 2000. No, wait, Dinah Ross in 2017. There were tens of thousands of people and kilometers of people in the parade. It was quite a fun event.

Some famous german singer
Another famous german rapper
See the tin warrior?
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Euro 24 Soccer

in a few days the final game in this European soccer championship will be played and there will be a big party in the winners country. I visited when the games were in Munich. Here are some photos.

The scouts were all ready in their kilts and some and some were Pipers. They love German beer.
A sign in the subway station
The BMW museum is here at the Olympic Stadium area. Here is one of their iconic classics
The Scotts were everywhere and friendly with everybody
As you know BMW owns Rolls-Royce
You put some money in the machine and a robot makes your coffee for you and possibly serves you a snack
Beach volleyball along way from the beach
The Olympic swimming pool is now for Public use
The glockenspiel
Romanian fans were having a great time and singing their fan song
The Scot’s were competing with their songs and pipes. The Scots drew the biggest crowd
Hofbrau house was packed with more than 1000 customers
I didn’t know they had sales for police cars
It was nice to see a new lotus in the showroom. I remember the Elan from “the avengers”.
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Landshut, Munich – a happenstance gem

Landshut is a very old city, wonderful place to walk around, study the history and a very livable city as well. Transport to Munich is easy as are buses around town. There are monthly storage facilities if you need, which we did, and the Italian restaurant (Rossini) on the steps leading up to the castle is so fantastic. The food quality and pricing can’t be beat in this city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landshut

The river was high
Cute Fiat with rear tires in the middle of the rear and fake wheel images on the back. Interesting
One church downtown. Bavaria is very catholic.
An exhibition in one church
Shopping main street
Typical local food
The main church
Organ inside the church
City hall
, cup with no handle
Fruit drink and a huge cappuccino, cup with no handle
The castle
Rossini’s superb quattro formaggi and spaghetti oil and chili pepper
Matketing.
Nice sandwich and a cappuccino
Pretty good wheat beer at a local beer garden
The old city gate.
Lederhosen
A matching vest
An excellent weisenbier made at the local brewery and served here at an italian restaurant in the shopping area.
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Freising – Bavaria. 1,000 year old beer

this little town is very old and very interesting. It is where the former pope Benedict was made a priest and it has the oldest continuous brewery in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freising

This Rubens painting is a replica. the original has been moved to a museum.
The decorations in the cathedral were done by two brothers. One did the stucco work and the other one did the painting.
This cape stucco work was the only part of the cathedral that the two brothers worked on together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freising_Cathedral

This brewery is over 1000 years old and therefore is the oldest continuously operating brewery in the world , or so they say.
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Thailand interesting stuff

By my bungalow, there are trees and electric wires for this truck to avoid.
a nice hilltop view cafe on Koh Chang
Don Maeung airport with its literal “centerpiece” golf course which belongs to the military. Golfers have to wait to cross for planes headed to runways
Excellent quality
Naval trainees with their land life jackets, over 50 of them walking the main street
My friends were surprised I could recommend an excellent wine. I finally got some respect
A local taxi actually it belongs to Gee so she can transport coffee drinks and her grand daughter
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Lungprabang, Laos Unesco city

the city is a UNESCO heritage site on the river since it has the oldest Buddhist temple left standing in Laos and was the palace of the king for generations. It’s a cute little city with most everything in walking distance and there are some interesting attractions in the vicinity including an extremely beautiful waterfall and some scenery. It’s best to go during the rainy season since the “high season” between December through March has extensive air pollution due to farm burnings throughout Southeast Asia. Many of the hotels and restaurants now are being bought by Vietnamese and Chinese, most of whom do not even speak Lao, so try to find those places that are owned and operated by Lao people if you want to experience Lao culture. Read more about this area at the link below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luang_Prabang

There are several very nice classic cars in the city
The Sunset view from the hill
This was someone’s idea of a lion which looks more like a cat.
Who’s driving? Maybe the kids should have helmets also?
Bocce (petanque) is very popular in Laos. There are many excellent professional players as well.
Crossing a temporary bridge to get to a very nice restaurant restaurant on the other side of the river
Phousi Hill photo enthusiasts waiting for the sunset
Here is the sunset view
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Vientiane, Laos. Update

life in Vientiane, Laos is always an interesting place to see some things you would not see in many other countries. It’s a very peaceful place but you have to make sure you lock your motorcycle onto something that will not move. If not, the motorcycle will not be there in the morning. I recently saw a video of some lady who went to talk to a teacher at the school with her daughter, maybe 6 m away from her motorcycle in which she left the key. Someone who look like a student looked around to see who was there and then just jumped on the motorcycle and drove away.

This is what you do if a motorcycle is the only mode of transport
In executive suites you might want to teach people how to use the sitting area
Are you selling durian on the street
The only real Vietnamese made car (vinfast) is actually fairly nice for a low end entry model. Someone decided to highlight these electric cars and use them for inexpensive taxi services like an Uber service. The cars are nice and clean and the app works very well. The drivers get paid a monthly salary of about $150 a month.

you can click on the link to see some information about these Vietnamese cars. They have goals to export to the US and Europe to compete with Chinese manufactured cars.

https://vinfastauto.eu

I think they want you to believe that this is a real Apple affiliated store.
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pakse-paksong food and…

in the 1970s Laos was the most bombed country in history. We visited a coffee shop which was partly destroyed by something and highlighted some of the weaponry was used against the objects of the bombing some of which included innocent civilians.

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/paksong

The cappuccino and sweets were very nice
You can see the bullet holes in the walls
This pizza in this small town of Pakse was amazingly delicious
Selling frogs at the local market for lunch or dinner
Nice spicy salads in the nice sunny weather
Picking out avocados at $.70 a kilo
Red ants have created a nest of leaves filled with eggs which are a delicacy
It really wonderful avocado and mango smoothie made in a bistro owned by a German fellow who was from a small town near Munich where we happen to be going in the next week
Avocados growing everywhere
And of course we have to have some Korean food to spice up our life