On Wednesday, my mum, my brother and I went on a little outing to Passau, a city in Eastern Lower Bavaria, about two hours drive away. The settlement that would eventually become Passau has been in existence since the 2nd century BC, and it makes the perfect entry for travelwithintent’s weekly Look Up Look Down photo challenge.
Passau is known as the “city of the three rivers”, because it’s where the Ilz and the Inn join one of Europe’s greatest rivers, the Danube. At the point where the rivers unite, the water is two different colours, because one carries much more sediment than the others:
Does it look like this in “real life”, we wondered, or just on the “official” board put up for tourists? It was hard to tell at ground level, so we decided to make our way all the way up to the fortification and take a good look from above.
From our lofty vantage point, Passau did look like a toy town.
There’ll be more on Passau, and on its FOOD in subsequent posts 🙂
There are SO may exciting places in the world!
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We’ll never get to visit them all! Thank god for blogs 😉
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Stop shouting at me about FOOD – I haven’t had my breakfast yet 🙂 So, so pretty! It really is a toy town! I want!
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Put it on your list – with any luck, there’ll be a direct train from Berlin 🙂 It’s just at the border with Austria and the Czech Republic, so you could hop across.
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Oh, lovely! I love Europe! 🙂
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And I didn’t get spammed! Huzzah! 🙂
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No, you didn’t 🙂
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Must try another blog and see if it’s just because you fished me out 😉
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Yeah, go bug Anna 😉
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She’s been drinking since 8am 😉
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That’s good – she won’t care, then!
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She should write more posts when she’s drunk 🙂
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Spammed on Green Lizard’s blog 😦
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Love the shots from the top. Would hate to be in Passau when it floods though.
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And it does that! There was a devastating flood only a few years ago, and many shops had not re-opened, leaving one street, which should have been a prime shopping street, effectively derelict.
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Passau looks beautiful! I love the 2 different rivers mixing together. Where’s the cake shop, though?!
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Oh, that’s still coming… OF COURSE!
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Passau does look like a charming “toy” town. I love the peaked red and brown roofs. Is it mostly vacationers/tourists, or is it a thriving town in its own right?
Hope you’re having a great holiday. Now, let’s get to the cake!
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Passau has a lively indigenous population, don’t you worry 😉 Bavaria is prosperous, even its border towns.
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Gee.. only been around since 2nd century BC?? Piffle!
And stop taking such fab pics, sending all the mouth watering food posts… making me want to hop a plane to Europe! Been too darn long…
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Come on over 🙂
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Funny little thing called a work project… booking my next flight to Jakarta instead…
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AGAIN!? My, you are popular 🙂
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Sometimes I forget how beautiful Germany is!
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Mum and I are off on another outing to a pretty Bavarian town on Tuesday. Can’t wait 🙂
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It looks so perfect!!
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It is 🙂 Well, I guess you don’t really know unless you actually live there, but let’s not ruin the fantasy 😉
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Germany is so cute! I want me some 🙂
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Got some more coming up later today…
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Lovely!
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It was 🙂
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Years ago, we went to Passau on our way home from a car rally….sad to say, we didn’t spend long there. Should’ve gone up to the vantage point like you did, great views! 🙂
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My brother’s work colleague told us to go up there, otherwise we wouldn’t have. Nothing beats local knowledge 🙂
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Too true!
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The two-toned river is remarkable! And I just love the photos from above. There is no place anywhere in N.America that approximates this, which is why I adore traveling to Europe. Well, that plus the food. 🙂
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NA has plenty of impressive rivers… just look at the fantastic job done by the Colorado River 😉
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Oh there are plenty of beautiful spots in nature here in NA; I’m talking about the architecture. When your oldest building is only a couple of centuries old… well, you know.
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Yes, on the architecture front, you’ve not got a leg to stand on 😉 Although, technically, Mexico is part of NA, and those Aztec/Mayan(?) constructions are impressive as hell.
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Good catch! I’m clearly in a USA/Canada, centre of the universe, mindset.
The Mayan ruins I saw at Chichen Itza and Tulum were very, very impressive.
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I’ve just worked out that you’re back in Germany- not Toledo 🙂 I’m only slow.
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And I’ll be here for another couple of weeks 🙂
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Visiting from UP-Down Challenge…I like your three domes shot better than the official one♪ http://lauriekazmierczak.com/gathered-flotsam/
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Thank you 🙂 I don’t think I’ve ever seen the “official” version…
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Oh, and I love your “altered” images 🙂
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