Our weekend away has been great! The weather has been nothing but sunshine and warm temperatures. Our flight back to England leaves later this afternoon, so we extended our checkout at the Moxy Munich Airport Hotel to later in the day.
This gave us some time to seek out another nearby town to have breakfast and explore the surrounds. Today that town was Erding and the location we explored was the Stadtpark. For today's blog, words will be kept to a minimum as Angela's photos will tell the real story.
First, a little something about Erding. It's located just to the northeast of Munich and lies among flat farmland -- which explains why the airport is out this way -- and it's been around since the 13th century. Like Freising, it was subjected to Swedish attach during the 30-Year War and was held by the Swedes a couple of times. One thing the town is notorious for is that in 1950 three DC-3 aircraft landed here after being hijacked at the same time from then-communist Czechoslovakia with 85 passengers in total. Of that number, 26 remained in West Germany.
In the centre of Erding is their Stadtpark. Originally an estate belonging to a wealthy family, it became a city park or "stadtpark" in the late 1800s. It has a large playground and a small petting zoo. Our walk took us past the petting zoo and along paths lined by flowering fruit trees, lilac bushes and daffodils of all types -- an escape from the urban jungle.
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