Landshut, Germany Travel Blogs

Chateaus, Bastille Day and Disneyland
Jul 18, 2007 (20 photos)

6032 km later we are back where we started from. We're now at Babette's (Yvonne's sister) apartment in Landshut, Germany, after a LONG day of driving. The good news is summer has finally arrived in central Europe! The bad news is, the summer has finally ...

Prepping for the road
May 16, 2007 (8 photos)

Well, we've now been in Landshut at Yvonne's sister's place (Babette) for almost a week now, and it looks like we won't be leaving for Spain til Thursday or Friday (or even Saturday?!). There have been quite a few things to take care of, including getting ...

Ready to roll!
May 19, 2007 (14 photos)

... ! A good, solid German female name (plus it has 'red' in it). The name Freda conjures up images of a hefty, reliable German woman (possibly with a monobrow) who gets the job done...and well! So, Freda it is. Finally, the next update won't be from Landshut!

Landshut ...mini vacation with the new camera
Jul 30, 2006 (50 photos)

We had a much-needed mini-vacation, spent a night at a hotel in Munich, then went up to Landshut and had a wonderful time. Landshut is now at the top of my day-trip lists.

End of our European travels
Sep 18, 2007

... good sense to carry eye masks and ear plugs)! So, after the long twenty-five hour journey from Santorini, we are now back in Landshut at Yvonne's sister's. We have a few days to pare down our gear (our Greece trip was a test-run for Asia) and finish ...

Recuperated and ready for more
Jul 24, 2007 (4 photos)

This will be a quick one. The weather has been strange since we've been here. The days have been very hot - low to mid thirties; but then at night it's been so humid you could cut the air with a knife, and this always preceded a big thunder and lightning ...

Corsica! Or not?
Aug 17, 2007 (27 photos)

... staff debate. We were ecstatic when they waved us on and wasted no time boarding. So here we are, back at Babette's in Landshut. We are in the midst of trying to sort out our Russian visas. It is a complicated and expensive process and the Russian ...

Get in ma belly
May 18, 2007

Good lord am I full. We just came back from Yvonne's oma's place where we had a barbeque (today is a German holiday). Just the five of us...myself and three generations worth of Franzl women: Yvonne's sister, mom, and grandma. And for four women and one ...

Munich
May 19, 2009 (8 photos)

(70 miles) This morning we toured the city of munich and ate the Bavarian things. We had some Weissbrot (white sausage) and pretzels. We also ate some spargel (asparagus) soup just because we see spargel being sold everywhere. Munich was a very nice ...

Museums
Sep 29, 2005 (1 photos)

... statues of these events or streets named after her. Maybe a plaza. It took us three trains, a plane and a bus plus a thirty minute walk with our luggage but we eventually made it to Landshut. There better me a statue of my mum after all this effort.

Erzgebirge, Dresden and Swiss Saxony
Aug 30, 2007 (49 photos)

... , but the rock formations show where things used to be (and a model replication also helped!). The people and scenery in "East Germany" are noticably different than in the west. For one thing, they don't seem to have embraced fashion as much - socks and ...

Die Landshuter Hochzeit
Jul 11, 2005 (11 photos)

... I did get to the festivities. I arrived in Munich late Saturday evening. Early Sunday morning I boarded the train for Landshut, which celebrates the "Landshuter Hochzeit 1475" every four years. The "Hochzeit" re-enacts the arrival of Princess Hedwig ...