This is “Himmelfahrt Christi” and a big holiday here, no one working and most of the stores closed. They are big and I believe they have 22 of them in the year. We went to “High Mass” at the Frauen Kirche and the music was grand—mixed choir, string band and the big organ combined to…

We arose this morning and after breakfast we went across the street to the depot to take the train for Nürnberg. We all parted reluctantly from München. It is a beautiful city and so “Gemütlich” which word is hard to translate. Everybody seems to be on good terms with everybody else. It is quite a…

We went out early in the morning and bought a new hat for mama and walked around a little. After dinner we took a car and rode around the old town twice, and I went into the old town to the market and looked at the Schoene Brunnen, a fountain erected in 1385 and restored…