Raise your glasses with a convivial drink - Sepia Saturday

This week's prompt photograph from Sepia Saturday features a group of men taking a break and  having a drink outdoors. 

So during these particularly challenging times, why not raise your glasses with memories of enjoying a convivial drink.


I have only one truly vintage photograph that comes a close match - 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.

To more recent  times and memories of happy holidays: 

I must admit I took this photograph rather surreptitiously 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 on our holidays in Bavaria and Austria, loved to eat outdoors (not a regular occurrence in Scotland), visiting beer gardens or a Konditorei (equivalent of a French patisserie).

In a Munich Biergarten 

By the Stubai Glacier in the Austrian Tyrol

 An invitation  to enjoy a slice of cake with cream 

and a cup of coffee or hot chocolate

We Indulged! 

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