Englischer Garten

He would go running, biking, swimming whenever he could.

When we were on travel, I remember we were in Germany, in Munich, and he'd go at like five AM running through, uh, the Englischer Garten in, uh, Munich, and it was obsessive for him.

I admired him so much for it.

I wish I could operate at that level of athleticism.

So she asked Unity, could she meet the Führer?

Unity Mitford arranged for Pamela to take tea with Hitler in the Englischer Garten.

It was a smart park in Munich.

It was a beautiful spring day.

Kayakers and surfers ride standing waves on rivers around the world, treating them as stationary features of the landscape, which in every practical sense they are.

The Eisbach wave in Munich, formed where the Eisbach Canal passes through a constriction in the Englischer Garten, has held its position in the Isar River system for decades and supports a thriving surf culture.

in the middle of a landlocked city surfers ride it year round in wetsuits in winter and the wave is always the same shape always the same height always in the same place as permanent as the bridge above it though it is made of water that has never been there before and will never be there again where tidal currents meet opposing flows in narrow straits or at river mouths the physics becomes more complex and the results more violent vortices form whirlpools in common language that can persist for hours spinning in place as the tidal current drives water through constrictions in the seabed at velocities that exceed the ability of the flow to remain laminar the corivrechan in the narrow strait between the scottish islands of jura and scarba is one of the most famous examples the tidal current in the strait flows over an irregular seabed that includes a pinnacle rising from a depth of two hundred nineteen metres to within twenty-nine metres of the surface an under-water mountain that the current must navigate around and over generating turbulence on a scale that is audible from 16 kilometres away.

The resulting surface disturbance includes standing waves, overfalls, cascading breaks of water that form where currents of different velocities collide, and a whirlpool that forms on the flood tide and can reach diameters of 15 metres or more.