Tag: Germany
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Flammekueche
Let’s talk a little bit about this overlooked area of German food culture. We ate it twice, bit you only get one photo because I’m way better at eating the food than I am at taking photos I of it. It’s basically their own version of a thin crust pizza. It’s generally with white sauce…
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English Gardens – Munich
In the center of Munich is the largest city park in Europe called the English Garden. It was a warm day, so we each got a refreshing cocktail to go and strolled around the park sipping out of our open container. Europe doesn’t have the same rules regarding alcohol in public that we do. A…
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Travel to Vienna
Today we are saying goodbye to Germany and headed by train to Vienna, Austria. When traveling this way, by train, subway, bus, and walking we do our best to keep it light. We each have a carry on sized suitcase with good rolling wheels. We prefer luggage that can be pushed fully upright as well…
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Cinderella’s Castle
King Ludwig the second of Bavaria was kind of an odd character. He was absolutely obsessed with the Arthurian tales of knights and castles. Had a bit of a crush on the French kings, and may possibly have been a vampire? So in 1869 he began building his very own fairytale castle. Neuschwanstein (New Swan…
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Hinterhornalm
We found this mountaintop restaurant as a small entry in the guidebook and thought it sounded fun. I took a screen shot of the map, you can see the switch back road we took to get up there. But this is not the way Google told us to go. Google very confidently sent us this…
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Salzbergwerk
We visited a 500 year old salt mine in the German Alps, still an operating salt mine. There was a mine cart tram, a wooden slide, a boat ride across an underground Salt Lake, and lots of historical information about mining salt. Did I forget to mention the overalls! Check out our salt miner fashion.…
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