Freistaat Bayern Travel Blogs

I promised some of you more photos of my hometown. I didn't get to take as many as I would have wanted but there they are!!! My friend and I were driving around the city for a while trying to get good pictures of things but the weather was just not working with us. Once we found a nice spot there w…

A lengthy stretch of the narrow canal that wound through Wertingen was lined with private gardens about fifty feet wide and two hundred deep. Hubert's was shared by Benno and several others from town. They each maintained small sections of different crops and often traded with one another. Lett…

In the morning we had to stay inside ‘cause it was raining cats and dogs. Good to know it was winter - so, why should it snow then? Never mind, to kill the time Dad tried to teach me how to play skat … but it was kind of  the same as listening to a lecture about Neurophysics in Bavarian …

My hometown Passau is known as the City of Three Rivers because the Danube River is joined here by the Inn River from the South, and the Ilz River coming out of the Bavarian Forest to the North. But Passau offers not only lots of water, it is also the site of the St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Th…

Every Febuary or March, my husband and I to go Austria for a week of skiing with friends.  And every year we travel the same route through west Germany.  This time we decided to leave a few days early and take a more eastern route.  So out came the '1,000 Places To See Before You Die…

I had been driving all day since the morning in Germany; I had visited great places like Dresden and Pirna and it had been time to find a good place to have a nights rest. My first target had been to find something in Bayreuth but I had been quite disappointed by my first impression. I checked my G…

My little hometown in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. This is my second most favorite place on earth after San Antonio, TX. Bamberg is really the beer capital of the world. There are ten breweries in the city limits, and another 250 in a 60K area around us. The town only has about 50,000 people and drink more beer per capita than Munich. It boasts being the hometown of King Ludwig (honorary), Willie Messerschmitt, Georg Hegel and Pope Clement II.

29 of July, the day that my age changed from 41 to 42. It goes by its self, the only thing i had to do is keep breathing. What shell we do on a day like this, i asked my son's. They had a idea, " lets go to Lego land" they say. When i asked why Legoland they answered that we all can play with …

The city is best known for its association with the composer Richard Wagner, who lived in Bayreuth from 1872 until his death in 1883. Wagner's villa, "Wahnfried", was constructed in Bayreuth under the sponsorship of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and was converted after World War II into a Wagner Museu…

Herrenchiemsee (Men's Island) The castle on the Men’s Island is one of the biggest tourist attractions in upper Bavaria. In 1873 Ludwig II acquired the island and erected a pompous castle modelled after Versailles. He revered the French Sun-King and created with this castle, a monument to absol…

my trip thru europe by rail.

What were we thinking? A road trip to where? Amsterdam.  How far is that anyway?  We had no idea but we would soon find out the hard way.  As I recall, it was Wed. night we were having dinner at the Taj Mahal restaurant in Schweinfurt.  Enjoying our tandori dishes and red h…

Not a lot to say about this entry, but we had to make a stop in Heilbronn to visit family friends before leaving for home. As usual, they took us out for a great dinner including my favorite Spätzle (correct spelling courtesy of silkimjukur) and of course, some good German beer. :)Photos are actua…

In the year 2005 my High-School choose the best ten students, who master the German language and reward them with a language course in Munich. I had the luck to be part of them. During this time we got the chance to visit Dachau.  I read and heard a lot about Dachau, but really standing on…

Mari met me at the train station in Bayreuth and took me on a tour of town.  Mari was my sister's German Exchange Student in High School.  I hadn't met Mari because I was away at college, so this would be our first meeting.  Our first stop was the famous Festspielhaus - where Wagner …