BigJimSlade
Hello everybody, let’s go back to the Alps! Mainly Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, then a couple nights in Mayrhofen, Austria. And when the clouds clear, we’ll see some mountains, too!
We flew into Munich (from Los Angeles and through Dublin), arriving at 9pm. With a couple of words of German, then listening and trying to understand… and some hand signals/body language, we got directions from a bus driver to where the Lufthansa Express bus would take us into the city (not here, go under the road, over there into that building, look for counter Zed, and go out there).
Eventually, the bus let us off near the train station, and right in front of a falafel/schwarma shop. It was now nearly 11pm and fortunately we had 20 euros on us to buy one of each aforementioned sandwich. With some more bad German, hand signals/body language, we got directions to the hotel that was basically halfway around the block.
We were up early to get a look at the old part of town while trucks were doing their deliveries and people were walking and cycling to work (ons of cyclists!), instead of the main sites being covered in tourists. Then we would head off to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
At the Rathaus (town hall) the clock chimes have these little characters that dance around once a day, but we weren’t there at the right time for that. But they are pretty famous and make the travel shows and youtube videos. The big picture
On The Road – BigJimSlade – German and Austrian Alps, Summer 2023Post + Comments (13)