My Regensburg Year, Part 2: September 2024
Our second month in Regensburg included a visit from home, an encounter with a “climate event,” and a meeting with the boss.
When we told our family and friends about our year-long stay in Regensburg, we invited everyone to come and visit if they were able. Few people, alas, have taken us up on this invitation. Is it because Germany is just not that attractive a tourist vacation? Is it the expense? Is it (gulp) US? We had our first intrepid visitor early this month when my mother came to town. Mum visits her sisters in England every year, so it was a quick and easy jump across the channel to see us. And because it was her first trip to continental Europe, we were determined to “show her a good time.” But we may have overdone it. My mum is quite fit even at 79 but she had to endure a lot of walking at the tail end of a heatwave. Still, she survived and together we explored the city (including our first visit to the Historische Museum for its Roman artifacts), and journeyed outside to nearby Passau, Munich, and Salzburg.
Our other major sightseeing excursion was a trip to Vienna that coincided with a major rain storm that resulted in floods throughout the region. Good timing! We’d like to say we “saw” Vienna but what we saw was mostly sidewalk as we pushed through the wind and rain with our heads down, moving from one museum or art …