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This is the first day dense clouds moved in above us. Luckily the rain went away in the late morning and we could go ahead with our plan to head to Schliersee, a nearby lake about 8km away.

Six hours later we arrived back in Berghof. It certainly didn’t seem that long to me, I could have kept going. Similar to Hallstatt in Austria, quaint houses dot the lakeside and even at midday, the peacefulness of the surroundings made it feel as though the day was only starting.

We were lead by M, the mathematician and physicist. Later we found out no one else would have been suitable for the role, M has a fascination with maps and could name the capitals of most countries by the time he was six because he only read atlases. Even with such experience, we still sometimes had to ask directions.

An old man was tending his garden at one of the beautiful wooden houses. When he saw the black-haired Asians, he immediately asked if we were Japanese because he is fluent in Japanese. Peppi now owns a pub where he and his son yodels four nights a week. Before this he lived in Tokyo and Osaka where he owned a Bavarian pub. And earlier than that, he lived in Hawaii.

While everyone of us were expecting a typical Bavarian old man who had probably lived in the same house for the past 50 years, to meet a random stranger with such a colourful past caught us all by surprise.

It just goes to show how easy it is for us to make presumptions and form our own views of things even without making the effort to find out the truth.