The Andechs Abbey

A couple of weeks ago, during the Christmas vacation, my host family and I took a trip to an abbey close to Augsburg. My host family loves going there, cause you have to climb this mountain (45 minutes!) in order to get to the top where the abbey is. What makes this hike worth it, is the amazing food they serve up there. The Andechs is located right beside the Ammersee, this big lake. They don’t have a lot of ocean down here (haha), but people love to go to the lakes in the summer for water skiing and hanging out at the “beach”.

Ammersee

Being from Denmark, surrounded by water all the time, I really miss the sea. It sounds weird, but water is sort of calming to me, haha. Apparently people in Germany also really enjoy the water, cause all the properties located around the lake (and the Andechs) are some of the most expensive in this area.

Flood measure thingyyy … And the seeeeaaa

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Even though I don’t particularly like hiking and stuff, it was actually really nice. The weather was beautiful and the food really was delicious. My host dad and sisters and I ordered Schweinebraten and my host mom had Weißwurst (a special Bavarian white hotdog). The whole place seemed like one of those old pubs that you see in the movies. It was really cosy.

Eating in the Andechs

Schweinebraten

HUGE Breze (Pretzel)

Besides eating there, we also checked out the Abbey itself. They told me that most of churches in Augsburg were just as beautiful before the 2. world war, but after the bombings, most of it was ruined. A lot of places in the forests you can still see big craters from the bombs.

Inside the Abbey

In the evening we also took a walk in our local forest (7 Tables forest), and visited this little cafe. It was sooooo cosy, with fairy lights hanging in the trees and a camp fire and little wooden benches. We drank hot chocolate and enjoyed the evening. They said there are normally live bands there in the summer time. I’m looking forward to it! 😀