Augsburg is not one of the cities, in which somehow is always the same weather, no matter what season, no matter what going on right now is. In Freiburg, for example, there seems always the sun. In Munster it always rains. In Hamburg, it is always windy. That's boring.
If any weather in Augsburg, then it is right. If it's foggy, it's so foggy that you can barely see his hand before his eyes. When it snows, then breaks down the road - for two days. When it rains, then float away sometimes even an entire highway bridge. When it gets cold, it's for a city like Augsburg already honor to reach at least minus 25 degrees. Otherwise, you freeze it properly. Yes, who lives in Augsburg, which is quite normal.
is most beautiful in Augsburg but summer. I have seen many places experienced in the summer. I was sweating in London at 25 ° in the
Tube , I experienced the single thunderstorm of the summer in Valencia, I have in Holland toes thrown in still cold Ijselmeer, I have observed in starry summer nights in Sweden moose. But I have never experienced such a great place like the
Augsburg Rathausplatz in the summer. Located right in the center, the town square every year from April to September for the meeting place for teenagers and young adults in the city. As a colorful folk mixed up of students, students, punks, students, guitar players, collectors of bottles, tape DJs, Germans, Turks and Arabs, and all have fun together. They bring their musical instruments, its deck chairs, his exercise equipment, you
jams together, they meet, one shows off his latest creation porn sunglasses, to cure the hangover from last night, trying to be brown. The atmosphere is relaxed, jolly diverse. Ice cream eating business administration students pet the dogs of the street punks, the Iranian Erasmus students bring in their by-seat aircraft, the drums, they are found together spontaneous Häckisäck rounds of plucking young rock stars on their detuned guitars around and try to Curt Cobain sound like. You can be at rest, or not.
the evening is the relaxed Mood often turns into a big party. The remaining day guests mingle with the revelers of the Maxstraße begin the surrounding cafes, sell the bottles of beer on the street. The Augsburg Town Hall Square is a great place to celebrate in one of the balmy nights in Augsburg a party. But not the only one.
Augsburg is a city that is much influenced by the water. It is known as the "city of a thousand fountains," and the one or the other, including the author of these lines, already had the idea to see whether you can swim in the fountain too. You can. We recommend the whole thing is still not sure - not only that it can come quickly to trouble with police or ubiquitous CIA (City Initiative-Augsburg, Aushilfscops) - There is something disgusting. You never know, who has since been purely tilted his stuff.
better places to swim are the ever-popular Cow Lake, which lies further out Friedberger lake or in particular the ice channel
. While romping at Cow Lake and Stretch (and on the other lakes in the Augsburg Area), a relatively colorful little people, the ice track is more for specialists. It is a branch of the Lech, which was originally designed as a canoe route. The channel splits up into a wild water channel, where swimming is not necessarily a good (Even if heard, was that there too crazy to be jumped in) and a more peaceful route - the ice track. In most of the top canoeists still practice it, go through the gates, at the bottom of the swimmers but for themselves.
is the ice track, as I said, not necessarily something for the average sun. The water is very cold, when Lech is a glacial river, the water temperature accordingly. Sometimes you feel yourself almost freeze while inside increases. Moreover, the water flows very quickly, so you can actually swim with only
the flow, not against it. But that does nothing. To a of the greatest most experience, which can be made in Augsburg, is to run up to the upper range (barefoot, in bathing trunks, through a residential area), there to jump into the ice channel, and then to the three kilometers of trees and clouds, by to have to drive back bathing lawns and pedestrian bridges. Very quiet. Already almost meditative.
The other special employment, which allows the ice channel, the iconic
boarding bridge. Given to build themselves a bridge board, which consists essentially of a large wooden board, a long line at the top and two handles. This design is fixed at one of the few bridges, and then one will realize that that one on this board can slide over the water. Almost like surfing. Just that you do not even move, but the water.
The Bridge boarding is a sport that has in Augsburg tradition. Long before the emergence of the ice channel, the young people of the city are gone Bridge boarding, then door to large boards on the Lech. It is said that these boards could dive completely under water, stay there for a while and then come back up. Also on the ice track is surfing in different variants: as would be the 40th men who gather there for years and then try out their ever-changing technical structures, there are the teenagers that the whole apparently only do that to impress her friends, as are the little children, because of their low weight are usually the best surfers of all, and then there are the Bridge Board-addicted students, of which I am one. Bridge for boarding is an extreme sport actually very relaxed. Actually, even so relaxed that it is not very extreme. Once you master the technique somewhat, which takes about two days, no more major challenges. Except for the small children of course, always at the top of the bridge shall be so long tear on the rope until the Board plops down into the water. Of course you can still go to learn such things as reverse, freehand or as low-in-water. But actually the boarding bridge is the most beautiful, if you just relax smooth sailing. Up to his knees in ice water, but otherwise dry and warm. You drive to the left, right tries from time to make a nice bow wave, they waved to the people who admire one of the bridge, you smoke a cigarette. Until one is too boring. Then you jump into the water.