landscaped as hunting grounds for Bavaria’s 19th-century royals. Surrounded by castle-jewelled peaks and meadows carpeted, in summer, with orchids, gentians and gladioli, it’s the natural ...

Rohde recommends a crisp fruit brandy or bitter gentian spirit to aid digestion “after a fatty Bavarian meal of pork knuckle or goose” or to accompany cake — many of which, like the famous ...

DH Lawrence wrote a poem called Bavarian Gentians in which he described the gentians as “burning dark blue/ giving off darkness, blue darkness....” The same could surely be said of those dark ...

We felt intense delight in finding such a rich diversity of plant species, and a shock of wonder on encountering trumpet gentians (Gentiana ... for the mad king of Bavaria, with views of the ...