Our home base was in a great little Bavarian town. Schliersee, Germany. You can see the resort we stayed at here. Alpen-Club-Schliersee.
For starters this is a great little Vacation Club. Highly recommended. Here was our route of travel and the stops we made: Long trip - almost 2310 Km.
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Day 1
Day one was a short trip to the town of Kufstein Austria. This was a fantastic little town. Now this is going to sound strange - but we had 2 destinations planned. One was to the RIEDEL glass blowing company. That's the strange part. Going in I wondered - but it was a cool tour and fascinating to watch them work. They make some fantastic stuff! The second was to the fortress in Kufstein. You can check out the details on the Festung Kufstein site. It was another great castle tour in Europe....We spent the rest of the day looking around in the town - and it was full of shops, places to eat and of course drink. We even found a Route 66 Pub for IEO. It was a short day and we were back to Germany late in the afternoon. Before going back to the resort we took a quick tour of a great little distillery in town called Slyrs. They don't make beer, they don't make wine... they don't make brandy... they distill Whiskey!!! This is a must see and they are really new. So far they have only released their 3 yr old. It was fantastic. We have a return trip scheduled for 2015. You can find out more about Slyrs here.
Day 2
Day 2 was a repeat for us. Off to Munich a visit to the HB Haus. I'm not going to repeat the details - you can look back a year in the blog and check it out. As I told our new friends - the Hamilton's are incapable of being within 200 Kilometers of Munich without stopping in and we would never visit Munich without going to the HB Haus. We took the train and then visited Dachau again - even the second time through it was fantastic! We were back to the Alpine Club in time for "Meet the Manager' and Happy Hour. It's a small detail - the ones that make trips like this worth while, but the manager at the Alpine Club is a fantastic person. He has been there 30 years and was the host of a small get together for many of the guests of the week in the resort. They also have a fantastic events coordinator - Silvi - she was a gem. Drop in and see them - you will love it.
Day 3
Day 3 and we were off to see the Newschwanstein Castle. King Ludwig II - and the history here are quite interesting. ˙However, this place is quite the tourist trap - so expect it. But the castle sits in and on some of the most beautiful landscape you could imagine. It's worth seeing the location as much, if not more, than the Castle. Alex got her wish and we took a horse drawn carriage to the castle from the ticket center - poor horses, Phillipe & Mona, - that was quite a climb with the load we created :) - But it was fun.
Day 4
This was another repeat trip for the Hamilton's. Another visit to Berchtesgaden. This was a stop last year and it will likely be a stop any year we are close. Again, you can see last years blog for details - but what a location... I really think I would like to find a way to retire there.....We viewed the bunker again, the documentation center again, looked up at the Eagles Nest - closed this year too because it was too early - and took IEO through the Salt Mine tour.... We concluded the day with a visit to Old Town again!! It's just a fantastic place.
Day 5
Day 5 was twofold. It was mostly a travel day - but more important we diverted through Frankfurt to visit some family that are now residents of Europe with us. Steve and Susan now live on the continent and we are really happy to have some family here. We are really looking forward to getting to see them and to have them come to Brussels too. The travel was interesting as we are all dealing with the volcano ash problem that has brought Europe air travel to a halt. That filled the trains and roads with people trying to get home... We are not out of the woods as the writing of this post and IEO is still not sure if she will be able to depart this Thursday... We will just have to see.
The week was fun. You can always tell how good a trip is by the number of stores that can come out of it: I'll list a few - you can ask via a comment if you want to know more on any of them :) and as always we will attach some photos and videos from the trip below:
- IEO blows a hammy in the rough and tumble game of bowling (it's not bowling it's kegeln)
- The bakery lady is surely glad we left town.
- The great Italian restaurant at the top of the lake
- Bret Favre at the HB house
- Buddy never gets to sleep
- Where are all the cows?
- What is a May pole anyway?
- Did IEO get a flight out of Europe?
Some Photos from the week:
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