Friday 4 April
Looking out the window this morning after last night’s snow, we saw a different scene, yesterday there were green hills and this morning everything was white after 10 cm+ of snow.
At 11:00 we left in the resort’s mini-bus for the village of Hopfen of around 10 houses and a cheese factory. The first stop was at the cheese factory where we were given a talk on the production, all in German. It is a very small factory processing 6000 litres of milk a day, from 20 farms, in Victoria some larger dairy farms would produce that much milk by themselves. After the talk we were given some cheese to sample and bought a wedge to take away.
Leaving the factory we walked in a 1 ½ hour loop around the neighbouring farm land all completely covered in snow and walking past a larger village. At some of the farms I was able to look inside the barns of two them, both attached to the houses, one had around 12 cows, the other 18 all in stalls. I wonder how the cows survive in such dark and gloomy conditions for months at a time.
Arriving back in the village we had lunch in a little restaurant and then returned to the resort.
Tomorrow we leave the resort and plan to drive along the “Romantic Road” through several medieval towns before heading to Berlin on Sunday, a total distance of around 700 km.
I’m not sure if we will have internet access in our accommodation in Berlin, so this may be my last posting for a while.
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