Tag: Germany
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Fairy Tales & Alpine Coasters in Oberammergau {Germany}
You may remember our visit to Mittenwald a few days earlier. After a sudden bout of heat exhaustion sent us ducking into a small grocery store for air conditioning and water, we ended up talking with a lovely couple for over an hour. What began as a necessary break became one of those unexpected travel…
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Summer Days Around Munich {Germany}
We really love returning to places we’ve visited before and experiencing them in a different way. Sometimes you see familiar streets with new eyes. Other times, you seek out something entirely new and let the place reveal another side of itself. Our previous visit to Munich had been wrapped up in Christmas markets — a…
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Painted Houses, Mountain Views, Violins, & Masks- A Day in Mittenwald {Germany}
We have a soft spot for small towns and places just off the main tourist trail, and Mittenwald fits that description perfectly. Our day there was filled with all of our favorite things — wandering through a museum, lingering in a bakery, and heading out onto mountain trails. Of course, it wouldn’t be one of…
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Old Town Gates & Markets in Freiburg {Germany}
After spending several days wandering through the storybook villages of the Alsace region, we crossed the border into Germany for a day in Freiburg—a city that had quietly worked its way onto our itinerary. We first came across it in a travel book, then again through a fellow traveler’s story, and something about it lingered.…
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River Walks, Olympics & Painted Houses: Christmas in Garmisch-Partenkirchen {Germany}
On our last day in Germany, we boarded the train and headed toward the alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. As we passed snow-covered mountains and icy rivers, it immediately felt like stepping into the kind of winter landscape you imagine when you think of Christmas in Europe. There is something about snow in the mountains…
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Wandering Through the Medieval City of Regensburg {Germany}
After spending several days enjoying the Christmas season in Munich, we decided to venture farther out into Bavaria to explore some of the smaller historic cities that have shaped this region for centuries. One of the places we were most excited to visit was Regensburg. The train ride alone felt worth the trip as the…
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Christmas in Munich: Markets, Lights, & Holiday Magic {Germany}
Our next morning in Munich, we found ourselves debating how we wanted to spend the day. Should we visit one of the city’s many museums? Take a deeper historical tour? Go back to one of the places we had only glimpsed from the bus window the day before? But in the end, the Christmas markets…
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A Cold Winter Day Exploring Munich {Germany}
Our journey from Salzburg to Munich did not exactly go according to plan. What was supposed to be a simple two-hour train ride slowly turned into a long winter travel day full of unexpected transfers, freezing rain, and a great deal of standing around wondering what would happen next. Not long after boarding the train,…