Relax with a Convivial Drink - Sepia Saturday

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. 

 

 

Enjoying a refreshing drink against the background of the  

the Stubai Glacier in the Austrian Tyrol

 

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. 

 

 

Or be attracted by the wonderful flower displays in my nearby town of Melrose.  

 

 

  

 

           

  

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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