In the mountains
Elmau-Ferchensee-Lautersee. The signage on this walk was excellent. From the castle in Elmau, there's a bit of an ascent and then one follows the gurgling Ferchenbach to the Ferchensee. There's a lovely wooded walk along by the lake and this works up an appetite for hearty pea soup with bits of sausage. In the background, the Karwendel Range presents itself in all its glory.
Last night, the Keller Quartet treated us to Haydn's Sonata II "Amen dico tribi:Hodie mecum eris in Paradiso". Bach and Hindemith followed.
Today, heavy snow!
Diarist of the day: William L. Shirer, 19 April 1940"Hitler's fifty-first birthday tomorrow, and the people have been asked to fly their flags. Dr Goebbels in a broadcast tonight: 'The German people have found in the F?the incarnation of their strength and the most brilliant exponent of their national aims.' When I passed the Chancellery tonight, I noticed some seventy-five people outside for a glimpse of the leader. In other years on the eve of his birthday, there were ten thousand."
