Post Hotel Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen

... every corner. Most everything was closed on Sunday, so I decided to trek it up the hill to the Alpenzoo. It's the highest zoo in Europe, and I believe it because I kept walking, up and up and up. It was a beautiful Fall day, and most of the animals were out of their homes.

After the zoo I did a little laundry and went for a jog for the first time in a month. There is a great ...

... did a bathroom stop at Point 3 and then went up to Edelpasse to have a look and take some photos. The cloud was fast moving with thermals and one minute the mountains were visable, the next they weren't! The little car struggled up and down the hills..2nd gear it chugged up and smelly brakes coming down but it was all good! We then headed up to the Josesf Franz point and saw the Glacier that was there..it ...

... go out with promise of Mexican food. Unfortunately, he couldn’t remember how to
get to it and we ended up eating some pizza which was actually really good.
From there we went to an Irish bar and met a couple Austrailans and hung out
with and had some beers. I called it a
somewhat early night as I was pretty tired from hiking around 15 miles and had
to get up early today to catch my train to Munich and wanted to save myself ...

... drowning in the lake near Munich is still a bit of a myth in Germany. It was a 45 minute walk uphill, but for 6 Euros we could take a horse drawn carriage-we jumped at the chance. It was a memorable ride and only the second time we had taken one-the first being right after we were married! It wasn't a private ride but the tourists who shared the ride with us also shared in our giggles at the constant ******* of the horses :)
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... purchases.

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.

... up the mountain to get a better look at the ski jump. The GPS took us to a viewpoint instead of to the actual jump, which is why I got a good picture of it. We then followed the signs to the ski jump, but the parking lot was swarming with people going to and from their tour buses and we decided we weren't in the mood for that kind of sightseeing.

We got on the highway and headed to a suburb of Innsbruck called Wattens where the Swarovski Crystal Worlds museum is located.

... alps and in an out of towns, we were passed by packs of Italians on BMWs mostly riding GS bikes. The problem was that they were great at passing us as well as cars through towns with barely inches to spare and with on- coming traffic, but once out of the towns they rode slowly through the great curving parts of the highway and we ended up passing them all again. It was very frustrating as these are some ...

... It was a great time, with a huge beer being passed around and plenty of food.I had schnitzel and it was awesome. Monday morning and Matt was better, so we went out for lunch and hung out with good friend Vance, who is also in town on holiday from the US. We visited a couple of beer gardens and went out for Italian, before calling it an early night. Yesterday was quiet too, going out for lunch with Vance and Rhue ...

... to dinner that night I came upon a stoplight and the "Don't Walk" sign was illuminated. Now, Garmisch is the kind of place where people will always wait to cross the street because that's what the sign says to do. No matter that no cars have driven by in the past fifteen minutes, nor that one can plainly see, for three or four miles in either direction, that there are no cars on the horizon. The chances of being run down by a speeding motorist were exactly zero. But the sign ...

... napkins.


We toured Linderhof, one of crazy King Ludwig's castles. It's the only one that was finished before he died. Even though it wasn't sunny, Rick made some gorgeous pictures.