Icking Ski Jump 

Great picture and even greater story!

Thank you, Sara! I’ve seen a film of a ski jump contest held here, and pictures of trains full of people who stopped at our station to go skiing. Now the trains are populated mainly by a bunch of commuters who happen not to have scooters...

Proof of global warming? Like the churches and villages of the UK's east coast which have long disappeared under the North Sea, I love this kind of story. It shows that much of what man thinks is immutable, is in reality just transient..

A great swathe of green too! Obviously the wood-worms are not to aggressive in Icking! :-)

Statistics are deceptive, but global warming seems to be a fact. The last few winters, we had very little snow, and there was hardly a chance even of cross-country skiing (langlauf). On the other hand, mobility has soared since, and people nowadays prefer going to Garmisch-Partenkirchen or Austria, where snow still is abundant.
I’ve never been inside the tower, but doubt if it’s safe: we’re not situated high enough to be avoided by obnoxious insects. (Thus he spoke, and scratched himself.)

Thanks, Sherry, for faving. You just missed this when we took our walk alongside the Isar. Better next time!

but you DID point this out to me at some point
unless I dreamed that ;-)