Freistaat Bayern Travel Blogs - Page 5

When my parents returned from Germany, they raved about Rothenberg, so I figured I should see it.  I took the train, which involved a bus transfer.  According to the schedule online, I had 3 minutes to walk from the train station to the bus, and I had to figure out which bus I needed, so …

Travelling through Germany I visited Dachau Museum, created from what was left after the destruction of this Nazi work camp.  This was the first of the German concentration camps and was opened March 22, 1933.  The day was freezing and snow hung ready to fall.  I wandered easily arou…

Date  10-27-2006 1:32:57 AM I´m enjoying my stay in München, a cool city.  I´ve never been to a place where life revolves around BEER. They even have a Religious Day for Beer. I´ll be wearing the leiderhossen or dirndl the way I´m drinking over here. Yes, Beer is GOOD here. I try t…

Yesterday I flew into Nuremberg with my sister to watch the USA vs Ghana World Cup match.  The town is very pretty, and very accessable to tourists.  I'm sure the notority of the name keeps some people away, but that's their loss. That night was the Holland vs Argentina match, which we w…

Yesterday, we had to get up early (8:30 wouldn't usually be too early, but the night before we were forced to stay up til 3 am by our evil hosts). We had a nice breakfast, and bid farewell to Norbert and Anja, who then drove us to the bus station. We rode to our next hosts, Schumi and Lili, who als…

Just a heads up to everyone, if you drink for the first time in months please don't decide to call to the states, it gets VERy expensive.  Just thought you would like to know.  

We're about to start an exciting new part of our trip. From Cologne, we took the train to the town of Passau, in Eastern Bavaria. In this beautiful town three rivers converge: the Ilz, the Inn, and the Danube. For the next little while we will be following the Danube eastwards... on bikes! Our rout…

The Bavarian town of Altötting is Germany’s most significant pilgrimage site for the veneration of St. Mary. Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate his second mass in Germany during his visit to Bavaria here on Monday.Located just a few miles from the German-Austrian border, Bavarian dukes held court …

Snowboarding in Oberstdorf :)

It was very interesting. The people dressed up as they did in Medieval time. Food is great. The Castels are amazing and they have turned one into a museum. In side they have all the tools they used in those days to torture Witches.Steeling was very bad and resulted in shackels in the town square for days. The grounds are wonderful and have a great ray of flowers.

    One of the many popular places to vist in Europe (by many americans) is Swangau. Home of the real Cinderella castle. Envied by the world for it's breath taking beauty and it's amazing vistas seen from the castle. This castle being Neuschwanstein and Hochschwangau. Situated betwee…

Germany '09---everything from Hitler's Eagle's Nest to Oktoberfest...(p.s...actual blogs to come soon, for now, just getting the pics up...)

Spent another day in Nurnberg, with a friend visiting from the US!

A very interesting trip going it alone, with a few small mishaps... but everything worked out fine in the end. Met a lot of nice people in all places traveled, kept meeting people from London in practically all of my destinations... everyone was friendly and everyone was usually very friendly and willing to help. I would definately recommend staying more nights in each destination than I did, but it ws still exciting to move at that pace too.

This was a little local day trip we took with my daughter's fifth grade teacher who grew up in Bamberg. She showed us a lot of cool places of this great town that day.