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Alpine foothills

The Bavarian Alps, near Schwangau


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Blog: Swan Lake and the Sound of Music - Bisecting the Bavarian Alps
Date: August 12th 2008

Tuesday (5th August) I was up early for a five-and-a-half hour train ride from Freiburg to München (Munich), with changes in Neustadt and Ulm. I arrived in Munich at a quarter-past-three, but thanks to the fact that my hostel was directly across the road from the Hauptbahnhof, I was able to check-in, dump my bags and make the twenty minute walk into the main square in time for a four o´clock gui ... read more


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