Summing Up Tegernsee

MY score of +4=1-4  in the Senioren Cup for players born before 1975 gained 32.2 Fide elo.

There was late drama when, relaxing after the tournament, Lufthansa texted me to say they had cancelled my 14:45 plane today from Munich airport.

Instead they offered me a late-evening flight, which I declined as I was able to make a late-afternoon booking with British Airways.

I am hoping the £242 cost will be covered to a large extent by a refund and compensation from Lufthansa, although I will not be surprised if somehow I do not qualify for compensation.

I spy a spy - fun in a Rottsch-Egern garden

Random Shots Around Rottach-Egern

Town hall

Italian restaurant

Fountain

Permanent maypole - unusual in not being painted in the Bavarian state colours of white and cornflower blue

Park

Summer Time

TEGERNSEE is mainly a summer tourism destination, or at least a good-weather one - summer-like days start earlier in the year in places such as Bavaria that enjoy a continental climate.

Yesterday, while having a late lunch on the terrace at Café Angermaier, which is perhaps halfway between Rottach-Egern and Enterrottach, I watched half-a-dozen hang-gliders circling over a mountain in what was blazing sunshine.

Unfortunately none of the hang-gliders has come out in my photo

This morning I saw hot-air balloons over the lake, one of them very close to Rottach-Egern.

A somewhat more successful snap

Willkommen!

CHESS players are certainly made to feel welcome in Rottach-Egern and the town's surroundings - we even get our own flag.

The Tegernsee chess flag fluttering alongside the Bavarian state flag 

Poles Apart

THE English tradition of erecting a maypole to dance around at the start of May probably originated in Germany, which is why the tradition is largely confined in the British Isles to England and those parts of Scotland and Wales heavily influenced by the English.

In Bavaria it is not unusual to see permanent maypoles, perhaps near a town hall or in private gardens.

They are almost invariably painted in the state colours of white and cornflower blue, and are often decorated with signs of rural life.

Maypole in a garden beside a trail leading from Rottach-Egern to the village of Enterrottach

Conditions

THE Tegernsee Senioren Cup is being played in Rottach-Egern's Seeforum (Lake Hall), a modern building with excellent lighting.

Games are played with wooden chess sets, and this year the top 10 boards are broadcast on the internet, with a 15-minute delay.

There is plenty of space between side-by-side boards, and adequate space between back-to-back boards.

Main tournament hall

Wall Stories

UPPER Bavaria, which means the south parts of the state, is famous for its external wall-murals on homes, businesses and civic buildings.

This lüftlmalerei often has a religious or local-trade theme, and Rottach-Egern, where the Tegernsee Senioren Cup is being held, has its fair share.

Humour is not a common motif, which makes this example rather rare

Saint Christopher carrying the infant Jesus across a river

Young couples enjoying a boat trip, presumably on Tegernsee

Sundials are popular, although this one is on a sheltered west-facing wall, which makes it of limited practical use

Biergarten scene

Agricultural subjects

Another depiction of St Christopher shouldering the infant Jesus

Hauling timber

Hunting and fishing