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REIT IM WINKL – INFO AND REFERENCES

Information and references  (based on our trip) if you’re visiting

Reit im Winkl

Travel/Climate

Set in the Chiemsee Alps, Reit im Winkl has a typical Bavarian climate. That is to say, it is very seasonal. Summers are hot, Winters are cold (with snow), Spring is alive, lush and green and Autumn……Autumn is stunning.

I have travelled to Reit by train from Munich (get the local bus from Prien) and also via the ‘normal’ Autobahns from Munich (A9/A99/A12). For this trip however, we got off the A99 when it started to jam, punched in the address on the sat nav and let fate take its course. It was a lovely route!

Some good Books/Blogs

https://www.kaiserwinkl.com/en/holiday-tirol.html

 

Where we stayed:

Beim Hanslbauer,

Birnbacher Str. 26,

83242 Reit

 

Places of Interest

(many of these are German sites that need translating)

 

  • Marquatstein

https://www.marquartstein.de/de/tourismus/en/english

  • Hochgern

https://www.bergtour-online.de/bergtouren/bergwanderungen/mittel/hochgern/

  • Hutzenalm.

https://www.hoehenrausch.de/huetten/hutzenalm/

  • Fellhorn (1764m)

http://www.bergfex.at/sommer/tirol/touren/wanderung/111299,fellhorn-1764m-suedanstieg/

  • Unterberghorn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterberghorn

  • Kaisergebirge/Wilder Kaiser

https://www.wilderkaiser.info/en/destination-tyrol/wilder-kaiser-mountain-range-alps.html

  • Eckkapelle

https://www.reitimwinkl.de/sommerurlaub/premiumwanderweg-kapellensteig

  • Hindenburghütte (1260m)

http://www.hindenburghuette.de/index.html

  • Chiemsee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemsee

  • Straubingerhaus (1558m).

http://www.straubingerhaus.de/strhas_haus/strhas_haus.html

  • Eggenalmkogel

http://www.roberge.de/tour.php?id=294

http://www.straubingerhaus.de/strhas_zugtou/strhas_zugtou.html

  • Taubensee – it is not possible to reach Taubensee by road. You need to park up and walk!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taubensee_(Kössen/Unterwössen)

  • Lochner Wasserfalle.

http://maps.kaiserwinkl.com/wasserfall-wandberg#resourceDetail,951345

  • Walchsee

https://www.kaiserwinkl.com/en/walchsee-tirol.html

  • Wilder Kaiser range

https://www.wilderkaiser.info/en/destination-tyrol/wilder-kaiser-mountain-range-alps.html

 

Other References

  • ‘Seasons of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness’ is taken from the poem, ‘To Autumn’, a beautiful poem by John Keats. It was one of my father’s favourite poems and we read it at his funeral.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason/poems/to_autumn.shtml

  • Schengen Zone

http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/schengen_en

  • Bayerische dialect

https://www.bavaria.by/language-germany-bavarian

  • Stammtisch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stammtisch

  • Sons and Lovers (DH Lawrence)

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/sonsandlovers/summary.html

  • Helston Lake

https://www.visitcornwall.com/things-to-do/attractions/west-cornwall/helston/coronation-park-and-boating-lake

  • Julian Barnes ‘Sense of an Ending’

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10746542-the-sense-of-an-ending

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/26/sense-ending-julian-barnes-review1

  • ‘Why, “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them …….and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”(Fool)

From Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Act V scene i:

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/twelfth_night/twelfth_night.5.1.html

 

Sarah Halliday

June 2017