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Published: August 4th 2023
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July 26, 2023 – Top of the World
We’re all sitting around the breakfast table enjoying another great German breakfast. It’s raining hard outside, I’m thinking AWESOME! Rest day, kicking back reading my book, updating the BLOG, it’s going to be a perfect rest day. As I’m taking a bite from my breakfast sandwich, Kirsten informs us were going up on the
Zugspitze, I choke and spit out part of my sandwich while trying to say “I thought this was going to be a rest day” with a mouth full of food.
Everyone looked at me like I was some crazed man, and in sync all say, “but it’s snowing on top of the mountain!!”.
After breakfast and putting on multiple layers of clothes, we loaded ourselves into the car and off we went. On the Road again.....
We arrive in the gondola parking area; I’ve been to the top of the mountain multiple times. The first time we took the cog train. Yea, I’m a scaredy cat when it comes to heights, and let me tell you this gondola goes HIGH!.
Yea, I shakily entered the gondola, the doors close, and locked, the huge cable
begins to pull. Just like in the movies, these glassed in cabins start slowly but within minutes its moving at a good clip. Up the side of the mountain, how high do you go, you really get the full effect once you go through the clouds. (2962 meters/9717 feet)
It took just 10 minutes to arrive at the top of the mountain.
We arrive and it’s COLD, you ask how cold? It’s -2 degrees Celsius that is 28 degrees Fahrenheit. For a Florida boy that is cold.
We all pile out of the gondola, walk, slide, slip through the snow to the gift shop, restaurant and viewing platform.
I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story. The good news is no one slipped and fell off the mountain. We came close, but we all stay upright. It was pretty cool to see it snowing on July 26
th.
We then took the second gondola down to the glacier area. This is where folks ski, sled, and make snow angels. After playing, viewing, sledding, and wondering around in the icey tundra we made it back to the restaurant. Ahhhhh! The warmth, hot soup, hot food,
hot coco and yes, a cold beer.
We sat ate, drank, and played cards for the next hour or so, Caroline won....again.
While in the restaurant, people were coming in that had climbed the mountain. Yea, how crazy is that when there is a perfectly good train or gondola to bring you up.
We came back down after a lunch and cards. The rain had stopped so Kirsten, Bea and Caroline wanted to go shopping in all the boutique shops around downtown. Me... I found an
Irish Pub. I have heard that there is an Irish Pub in every town...everywhere. I walk in and I’m the only one there. I yell out “Can I get a beer” and the bartender pops up from the behind the bar. He says sure and ask “where ya from Yankee” in his Irish voice. I tell him I’m from Florida and he ask “Are ye Lost Lad?”. And I respond no... Kirsten knows how to find me. Sounds like ye has good woman Lad.
After a couple beers Kirsten finds me, Bea and Caroline follow in soon after. Bea asks the bar tender where he has dinner and he recommended
Pub 33.
You’re thinking another Irish Pub, so were we, however it was a great German restaurant. We had dinner walked around for another hour and headed back to our house.
Once back at the house we were all tired. Yea! This was a long day, but it was a fun day.
Tomorrow, we are heading to Munich, Bea and Caroline are leaving out of Munich Friday morning and we are doing Munich Thursday.
Off to bed we went.
Good night
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