Bavaria

Looking towards the centre from the Englischer Garten park in Munich.

The Munich town hall from Alter Peter, the bell tower of St Peterskirche.

The Altes Rathaus (old town hall) of Munich.

Here's three things to do with your roof terrace - garden, camping shop and cafe.

Looking up the Reintal valley from the river near Reintalangerhütte.

I reached Reintalangerhütte in the mid-afternoon. I went and sat by the small river, near an island. At first, it was quiet... but after half an hour or so, sheep started arriving on the far bank. Cautiously at first, they started crossing over to the island, edging their way into the water and wading across. And then more and more of them arrived, pushing each other and crowding on the bank. Eventually the entire herd had crossed to the tiny island in the centre of the stream. Realising I was in the way, I moved from my spot, to the obvious relief of the sheep who now started the second leg of the crossing, once again wading (with an occasional splashing leap) through the river on to the bank where I had recently been sitting.

Coming from the south, most of the routes are gentle forest paths heading down from the higher alpine ground into the lower ground around Garmisch Partenkirchen. But following the river Partnach down into the town, you reach a tremendous gorge. The river storms its way down through a narrow cut in the rock, leaving no way anyone could normally follow it. But a half-ledge, half-tunnel walkway has been hewn into the rock a few metres above the water level.

Proof that light travels in a straight line! - a beam of sunlight reaches in to the extremely narrow gorge.

Kofel from the Bärenhöhle cave, near Oberammergau by the road to Ettal.

Kofel from Oberammergau, by a Lüftmalerei-painted house.

When I set off from Oberammergau, it was just a little cloudy after a bright morning. By the time I reached Ettal, it was pouring with rain and the fog had come down. Here's the monastery church in the Kloster Ettal abbey.