Raise your glasses with a convivial drink is this week's popular theme from Sepia Saturday's prompt photograph. Some fresh images from me alongside favourites from past blogs.
With work colleagues after a hard day at a training conference.
I took this photograph in a cafe bar
in Munich Square, in Bavaria, Germany. The two men looked so genial
sitting there with their huge beer tankards. Combined with the sign,
this seemed such a good photograph to take to typify the Bavarian scene.
Meanwhile we were indulging in a drink and "kuche" - (cakes).
Here raise your German Beer Stein!
This ornate one, with a pewter lid is decorated in the Bavarian
colours of blue and white. And yes - it was bought as a holiday
souvenir.
We enjoyed the good life in Bavaria and Austria and loved to eat outdoors (not a regular occurrence in Scotland!) , visiting beer gardens and Konditorei - the equivalent of a French patisserie with absolutely delicious cakes and pastries.

The Cafe/Konditorei Zauner, founded in
1832 in the spa town of Bad Ischl, Austria. It more than met my expectations of
an elegant, old fashioned Viennese style cafe.
Below - another invitation to indulge with a cream cake, coffee or hot chocolate.
Celebrate the grape - with this wall mural on an inn in Austria.


Or have a drink with this fellow in a restaurant in France.

Or follow the signs for the Beacon Hill pub in Boston
that inspired the TV programme launched in 1982.
Much nearer to home - visit the old Black Bull Inn in my home village of Earlston in the Scottish Borders.



Enjoy a dram! A sign painted by my father-in-law, who was a painter & sign-writer in Edinburgh .
I have only one truly vintage photograph that relates to this week's topic - and one that has featured before on my blog.
This is the only photograph I have of my great grandfather James Danson (1852-1906), the bearded figure on the left, sitting
merrily in the ancient stocks at Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire. By all accounts of his
family, he was a bit of a ne'er do well, but clearly having fun in what
could well be a staged photograph.
And finally - James great great great granddaughter enjoying her mug of milk.
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