Sunday, April 12, 2015

Rainy Mainau Island in Lake Konstanz

Unfortunately, on day 2 we did not have the same luck as the previous... it rained ALL day without stopping for a second. Despite the weather, we didn't want to change our plans: We got up early, had breakfast in the hotel (charging energies to keep active all morning long) and next we drove to the city of Konstanz. Trusting on GPS was a little bit risky... it indicated us to cross the lake, and there wasn't a bridge! it was funny when we noticed that it made us take a ferry to the other side, with the car also on board. Once arrived to the city of Konstanz there was a lot of traffic and (due to the rain) all the centric parkings were already full. So, taking into account that we could do nothing but being in a shopping centre, we decided to jump to the following plan: Mainau Island.
Mainau is a island full of nature, from deitailed gardens repleted of colorful flowers to a butterfly conservatory. This last place really took my attention (you'll se it by the amount of photos I took from butterflies) but, in fact, I was not the only one who was fascinated by the place. It was so humid, that the camera's objective got scrim as it happened also with people's glasses. It amazed me the nice reproduction of a tropical place and the variety of animals and plants. Butterflies were not afraid of people at all!




















Another interesting garden that was inside a greenhouse was the one that contained thousands of orchids. Sincerelly, I confess that the best remember I have about that point is the cafeteria that was surrounded by all that flowers and, specially, the cakes that they offered there. Absolutely delicious.




On our way to my boyfriend's german home we made a stop to see the Rhine Whaterfalls, in Haute Rhine, the biggest waterfalls in Europe with a width of 150 meters long.




And finally, before the end of our Easter adventure, we stopped along the way to try the typical apple strudel or better said Apfelstrudel.

1 comment:

  1. it seems that you have enjoyed a lot in your trip and made beautiful memories even I am my boyfriend as also planning to travel to Germany and visit the Germany islands this time.

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