Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Travel Blogs from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Oktoberfest, Augustiner, and Meat Peanut Butter
... shooting. So you will have to excuse the excess of random pictures that I have included. I ended up staying in Garmisch about 2 weeks longer than I had intended due to Dave the Dick (that's his Christian name) booking his ticket way later ...
More Garmisch Hiking
Here's some more pics of o'fes the 2nd time we went and caught up with one of the guys we did the camino with. More pics around town ...
Hiking
Check out how pretty the hikes are in this part of the world. Shhh don't tell anyone, we want it to stay this way. Oh yeah and some more parites and o'fest shots (trip ...
Life is a (German) Highway
... -watching. The next morning we ate our free breakfast(!) that the hostel provided and departed from Rothenburg heading south to Garmisch-Partenkirchen which is located in the Bavarian Alps on the border of Austria. Chip got another shot of ...
First Snowball Fight!!!!!!
... breakfast at Kameha Grand Bonn hotel and said goodbye to our luxurious rooms, before catching the train from Bonn to Garmisch- Partenkirchen, which took an unbelievable six and a half hours. It was lucky I had brought my ipod, because otherwise ...
Füssen and Neushwanstein
... get sick of backpacking after four months?". Yes it really can be tough, sitting on a ferry on a beautiful day watching the germany country drift by while chatting to (in this case) some spaniards from the Basque country and learning about their part of ...
Practicing the basics
We woke up late again and made our way to the ski fields in a mad rush. Today we learnt how to go down the hill withought using the snow plough technich. We go in partners for some of the activitie that help us learn the ...
Climb Every Mountain
... helped us. Without cracking a smile, she validated our passes and we were off to the Gleis for a train bound to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the village at the foot of the Alps that would serve as our launching point for Zugspitze. Along the ...
snow capped mountains in July??????
Traci here: We arrived in Garmisch today, a little wet, but safely. It rained almost the entire drive and was cold. We pulled into the resort and it was 55 degrees and will drop to 39 tonight. To say this place is beautiful would not do ...
Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the 'Wank' haus
We were very happy this morning as the sun was shining and this meant that our plans would proceed as planned and we would spend the day at the 'Wank' haus up on the top of one of the mountains. We had a big breakfast at the ...
Terrible tumble.
The morning was bleak and drizzly. We had decided that as we were perhaps a km out of town that we would scoot into town to have a wander before we lined up for play tickets. But, as we were tackling the steep hill down from our parking lot, Jena was ...
German beer blog...
... yet similar, still very different than what we get back home. Side note, bought some wine in Netherlands for the ride down to Germany. the Bordeux was less than averge, give me Paso any time, but the Italian Barolo was awesome. Wish we could get ...
Germany, what a perception changer. It is beautifu
... seems to be made up of villages, farms, forests, and everything is green beyond belief. I had no idea Germany was this beautiful. And then we pulled into Garmisch during a rain/snow storm in July. What a site, how awesome and breathtaking. I can't believe ...
Skiing
We woke up late and after breakfast we went to Ski School. We were all really excited about skiing, because Adam and I had never even walked on snow before. We were divided up into age groups, where we were shown how to snow ...
The Zugspitze!
... Christmas ornament shopping until we dropped. I wonder if it's Christmas here in July, too? January 1st we drove to Garmisch (where Mike and I spent Christmas) so that the litlle girls could have some recovery time in a peaceful place. The ...
Skiing again!!!
We actually woke up on time today! I'm not sure if it was because this is our last day on the snow fields or because we went to bed early yesterday. Today I was determined to master the skill of skiing because i want to be able to say I ...
Childhood memories
We slept by the 1936 Olympic Ski jump stadium and found the best ice-creams yet. White chocolate and Tiramisu for only 60c a kugel. Throw in Maria's Grill Stube with Schnitzels-a-go-go and we may stay here for ever. They even have a choice of ...
The Bavarian Alps
... are religious scenes, or farming life, but many are nursery rhymes - we found little red riding hood and Hansel & Gretel. Garmisch Partenkirchen's claim to fame is as host of the 1936 winter Olympics. These days it is an upmarket ski resort in ...
Skiing the Bavarian Alps
... Christmas we took a train from Munich and headed south to the Bavarian Alps, to a skiing paradise surrounding the towns of Garmisch and Partinkirchen. We rented a small apartment in a local man's home and each morning jumped a local bus and within ...
Plan B
September 27-28 I said good-bye to Austria when my train crossed over into Germany on the way to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The rain, although light, followed me the whole way - about an hour's trip, maybe two but certainly not more. It was only a short ...
Garmish-Partenkirchen
Our task.. to get closer to Munich.. our town of choice was Garmish-Partenkirchen... chosen not only for it's terrific name... well mainly for its name but also being a town of reasonable size offering decent accommodation. This town is one of, if not the ...
THAT WAS SOME HIKE!
... ; Darn it all. We get our spot, we are surrounded by mountains and just under the Zugspitz (the highest alpine mountain in Germany). Across the street are 2 grocery stores. Perfect location with an incredible view. The sky has just a few ...
The foot of the Alps: Bavaria & German Castles
We stayed in Garmisch, Germany at the foot of the German Alps for Thanksgiving ...
Ahhh...that's why all the BMWs!!!
... the least. We had found out from the American we met at Stelvio Passo that the big annual BMW Motorrad Fest at Garmisch-Partenkirchen was on this weekend so we decided to pass through Garmisch to check it out. Those crazy Italians again! As ...
a lovely cool mountain breeze
GP for the second time and a repeat trip to Maria's Grille Stube for schnitzel and ...
German towns and Munich
We woke up to a sunny morning and warm weather below the Zugspitze considering most of the people in the town were going skiing. We saw 2 people from Norway on the Olympic ski team at breakfast and we hoped they were famous! We walked to the 1936 ...
On top of Germany!!!
Wendy and I traveled back to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to go to the highest point in Germany, in the Bavarian Alps. Mom, Dad, Pete and I had been here before when they visited me in March, but it was not the correct season for tourists to use the ...
German Alps
While trying to decide where to head next I recalled a close friend\s remarks on the beauty of Garmisch/Partikerkin which he had visited while a USA soldier stationed in Germany decades ago. So I decided to visit it. and it truly was beautiful. ...

