Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Day 1 1. Get up very early. 2. Buy Newschwanstein bierstein and postcards. 3. Hit the road! 4. Drive three hours. 5. Sit in traffic for a long time. 6. Drive another two hours. 7. Arrive at the airport in a panic just five minutes before check in! 8. Discover the flight has been canceled….
Segue from Munich Oktoberfest by shopping for lederhosen in the rest of Munich! This photo is dedicated to Hannie. St. Paul Cathedral peeks over the Oktoberfest grounds. Not having a map, guidebook or clue where the main part of town was, we headed for what we could see. Munich’s style is a little darker than…
So we drive all the way up to Munich on road signs alone. “Zentrum,” said a sign within the city limits…maybe that means center? Chris followed it. All the people are walking that way, so we probably want to go there, too. Bad logic in life. Good logic when you’re clueless and trying to find…
Shortcut to going—watch the video! Ehrenburg ruins and Reutte.
Autobahning to Austria seemed a fine thing to do Wednesday afternoon. View Larger Map We’d planned that day in Munich to soak up some Oktoberfest, but most of the morning saw us looking for the guidebook we left in that sunny restaurant yesterday (Chris) and taking a nap (me) because my sleeping pill wasn’t enough…
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Brr! It’s chilly in Germany! We arrived in Germany Monday afternoon, 22 September—the first day of fall. Tuesday was our first full day there, spent in Hohenschwangau, which is also the name of the first castle we explored. Chris and I took the above self-portrait down the lane from our hotel—that’s Neuschwanstein Castle in the…
