Blogs from Germany, Europe - page 827

Berchtesgaden and the Salt Mines Today we awoke with a plan in mind. The plan was to head to Berchtesgaden to see one of the salt mines and possibly see Hitler’s Eagles Nest. Shower Struggles As I’ve told you in previous blogs, it’s always a crap shoot when it comes to bathroom facilities in Europe. We’ve been lucky since we left Spain and have always had good running water and stand up, glassed in showers. Because of the fact that all has been hunky-dory since Spain I haven’t commented on this often. Well, here we do have good, hot running water, but we have a stand up shower in a bathtub with no shower curtain. Why you would have a standup shower in a small bathroom without a shower curtain, I don’t know!! As I ... read more

Happy Holidays to all. We started our Christmas morning in Salzburg with a small but fun celebration then drove the 112 kilometers to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It was very cold and there was ice and frost on everything we saw making everything white. It was like driving through a Christmas card. We had Christmas dinner at Reindl, a traditional Bavarian restaurant. When we emerged it was snowing! A white Christmas after all. We are staying in a fantastic hotel with a view of the Zugspritz, the tallest mountain in Bavaria at 3000 meters. You do the math. We woke up to the view in the picture you see here. Wow! We headed out in the car to find some castles and within an hour we found two. Hogenshshalokslfjkdluu Castle (I forgot how to spell that one) and Neushwanstein ... read more

1.1.2007 Seit 5 Tagen bin ich nun in Deutschland. Der Kulturschock hielt sich seltsamerweise in Grenzen. Fuehle mich ganz gut und versuche mich im Alltag zu Hause zu recht zu finden. Nach vier Monten auf Reisen dachte ich mir wird das Heimkommen schwieriger werden. Vielleicht kommt es ja noch. Wer weiss. Silvester hab ich gestern ganz gut rum gebracht. Nun haben wir ein neues Jahr. Platz fuer neue Ideen und Ziele. GUTEN START UND EIN VERDAMMT GUTES NEUES JAHR AN ALLE! Es bleibt spannend. Somit Swadee Kha, zàijiàn, byebye und servus bis zum naechsten Abenteuer. Eure Sylvia 26.12. Muede hab' ich mich gestern, nach meinem Interneteintrag, heimgeschleppt. Erstmal hab ich mich verlaufen, da ich den Weg abkuerzen wollte. Haha. Aber Trang ist klein. Wollte mich noch ein wenig unter die normale Welt der Menschen, nach der ... read more

Twas the Night before Christmas and all through the House…or Hotel… Christmas Eve Breakfast Buffet After sleeping in a bit today we headed down to the Christmas (Eve) Morning Buffet. It was really nice and very crowded. Besides the normal cold cuts, bread and assorted jams there was bacon and eggs as well. We ate and ate and ate…by time we were done we were fully stuffed and felt the need to get some exercise to work off all the food. Castles…the Real Thing Despite the fact that both of the castles in the area were closed, we headed over in their direction figuring we could at least see them from outside and maybe walk around a bit. Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein castles are both beautiful and classic. King Ludwig (King during the late 1800’s) grew ... read more

Munich: Deutsches Museum and The Residenz Deutsches Museum: Germany’s Smithsonian After a light breakfast provided by our hotel this morning we set off for the Deutsches Museum. In keeping with our hands on approach to museums, the Deutsches Museum seemed like the perfect place to start our day’s adventures because it contains 10 miles of exhibits that range from aeronautics to food processing. When the two mile hike through 30ish degree weather was done, we were really looking forward to some serious inside time. Thankfully the museum was warm and large enough to keep us inside for hours. We started out with the history of shipping section which contained a few full sized ships and about 200 small scale replicas of interesting historical ships. Kel spent some time in the ancient section of the shipping ... read more