Meetup for people around the Bodensee area

Any Brits, or other native English speakers, living around the Bodensee? We've been here for several years now near Überlingen - anyone else in this neck of the woods?

Map of TT members

Boy, I guess I'll be booking a train ticket to London again ...

What you up to in Überlingen anyway? I was there a couple of years ago while on holiday in the area. I remember there was a nice Obstbrennerei there, so we got tipsy trying out the different liquers, then headed down the road (by bus!) to that monastery/churchy thing.

Don't despair, people don't always put their location on their profile page.
There might be some more of them around, so don't give up!

Edit: On second thoughts, there are probably quite a few English speakers across the border in Switzerland, around St. Gallen. Have you tried this forum? (I hope this suggestion won't be viewed as an anti-TT initiative or something .)

Hi KPR, not so fast on that train ticket! I live in the Bodensee area (only about 10 minutes from Überlingen actually), am not a Brit but an English speaker nevertheless. PM me if you feel like meeting up sometime My husband's also an English speaker, so that makes 3 for the Bodensee area already.

Small Town Boy- Landed in the region gawd, 8 or 9 years ago, after living in British Columbia, and being recommended for jobs here by some old friends of ours. The big churchy thing would be Birnau. Never liked that Barock style very much myself. But the combination of mountains/lake/vineyards around here is hard to beat. Just, sometimes, a nice English pub wouldn't go amiss!

Kay - thanks for the link. Actually, I was wondering if Toytown ought to allocate a forum to the Bodensee itself - since it straddles Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Austria and Switzerland. We travel across to Switzerland/Austria far more often than up to Stuttgart or Munich.

TJ - great to hear from you! That'll be 4 of us then, my wife is English too. We'd be delighted to meet up - I'll send you a message soon. 10 mins from Überlingen - interesting - so are we - it would be funny if we were neighbours. We're not far from Lippertsreute ...

Hi KPR and TJ
Saw your posts and thought I'd let you know that there are a group of English-speaking ex-pats in the Lindau area. Not sure if that's a bit too far for you to contemplate travelling but we only meet once a month (the last Friday night) so you might want to consider it. We meet in a different venue each time (to keep things interesting) and you are welcome to contact me if you are interested.
Regards
Amanda

Amanda - Nice to know you're out there. Lindau's not so far. And of course, if there's interest, perhaps folks could meet at other venues along the lake too ..

Now that Editor Bob has newly created this Bodensee forum for our use, any chance you might regularly post details of your meet-ups so others in the area can see what's on too? (Saw your post for Friday 23rd March)

Have you heard of any other ex-pat groups around the Bodensee? TT would be a useful way of linking everybody together ...

Hi KPR

I know that there are ex-pat groups in Wangen (they meet in Hatzenweiler) and in Weiler-Simmerberg (more in the Allgau direction). In Lindau there's also the "English Club" which, although run by a couple of Englishmen, is more for Germans who want to practice their English. I suspect that there are groups in the Friedrichshafen area as there are so many foreigners working for MTU, Dornier and ZF, but I don't have any contact with anyone else.

I'd love to get a website set-up and get some posters printed for my group in Lindau, but at the moment the funds are non-existent! Maybe one day... In the meantime at least I can 'meet' others and make contacts through TT.

Keep in touch!

Hi, yes, over here! We're here! Here being Salem, and we being me, Irish, my other half, Irish and our two daughters (11 and 8). Also desperate to make contact with other English-speakers in this area. Now if I'm counting the running totals correctly, that makes 7 of us (9 if you include our daughters, neither of whom were born in Ireland, but both of whom carry Irish passports!). Where in Überlingen are you?

Hi Marzi! Great, the Bodensee count is rising! We're in Mühlhofen (near Meersburg). We're meeting up for the first time this Saturday in Überlingen (11 am, at the atrium behind the Krone in Münster Straße), hope you can join us. We consists (so far ) of me, my husband, KPR and KPRs wife.

Marzi, good to hear from you! Salem is just a short bike ride away.
Hope you can make it on Saturday. Maybe we can get an English-speaking Stammtisch going ...