Hotel Forsthaus Graseck Garmisch-Partenkirchen

... it. It was pretty scary to think that they do the jumping in summer when they wet the slope and land on fake grass. In winter, there is at least 30 cm of hardened snow. It actually looked scarier from the bottom than the top. The stadium is also used for concerts in summer and the pope has also held a mass there.<br><br>By time we headed home, the rain had started and had set in for the night.

... amazing to see how close the Golden Roof came to being bombed during World War II by the Nazis. The Austrians had bricked it in to save it and some of these bricks were actually destroyed while the Roof and building were saved.<br><br>We then walked up the City Tower which was built in 1440 and had an incredible view over the city and the surrounding mountains. It had stopped snowing by this time and you could see a clear line above ...

Walked to the train station and did an expedition to the supermarket to spend our last Swiss Francs as we are back to Euros in Austria. Had a stopover in Zurich for a while and then caught the train to Innsbruck. Again this was a scenic trip over the mountains and it started snowing and was very deep as we got higher- just beautiful scenery. Innsbruck is surrounded by mountains, all of which had snow on them.<br><br>We checked into our hotel where we ...

... packed in tightly on either side of the narrow pedestrian street. My mom was sucked right in. I don't know how long it took for us to walk the length of this short street, but it was several minutes too long.<br><br>We never did visit the cathedral. Our stomachs took over and we went for food instead. We found a nice pizza place with good prices so we went in. Everything seemed OK until my boyfriend asked for a new set of cutlery because when we first sat on our table it had ...

... purchases.<br><br>The museum was pretty cool and certainly a unique experience. The weather was really nice today too so once we completed the museum and the shopping, we went to the park behind the giant's head. Here they have a hedge maze shaped like the giant's hand which looked pretty cool but we didn't venture in. Instead we soaked up a little sun before moving on to the next destination.

... find a campground, we can&#8217;t see any 'I&#8217;s and pull into a parking lot. I ask a woman if she know where information or a camping platz is, she begins giving directions in German, way beyond me, so she says to follow her. Away we go and she takes us right to the camp ground. I thank her so much and give her a big hug. <br><br>Funny part is, the camp ground is just around the corner from the cable car parking lot. We turned ...

... at the olimpic ski ing<br>jumping sites which was huge!! and they have the international skiing<br>jumping finals there every year day (who knew?). The actual ramp<br>that the ski-jumpers use is huge!!!!!! like 6 stories high and 50<br>yards wide at a 75 degree angel and thats just the landing<br>ramp!!!!!!! so what we did is climb to the top of the landing ramp<br>and slide down like a gaint slip and slide!!!!!! the material that<br>the ramp is made out of is like big plastic brush ...

This was a lovely little place we stopped at on the bus tour to the castles. Unfortunately, being Sunday, most everything was shut (except for the souvenir shops that is). They have a woodcarving school there that I plan to stop at for a weeklong course on the next trip. But of course it was shut that ...

... turn a little. Thoughts of my dads side of the family crept into my head saying, "Ahhh, just eat it, it is good for you." I was only able to choke down the liverwurst by covering it in some of the cheese that accompanied it. The cheese dulled the liver taste and made the texture less grainy. I do not know how people eat this stuff, especially for breakfast. I arrived at the conference a few minutes late and listened to some talks about stress analysis using ...

Another work conference for my parents brought us to Oberammergau for a week. We stayed in the cutest little wooden cottage - like the whole thing ceiling to floor and including flowering window boxes was made out of wood! Totally picturesque like you've read about in Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Aromatic town bakery. Absolutely enchanting.