Jen and Dave: Adventuring

Not including cows 🙂 Ibex at Telgerbergbahn ? Red deer ? at the ice field at Eiskapelle Fox in a field on the Munich to Freilassing train Marmot at Gotzenalm Alpine salamanders at Füssen Viviparous lizards at Gotzenalm Frog in Englischer Gartens Common cuckoo birds heard everywhere in the mountains Alpine chough birds (related to…

To try to make up for there being no BMW Factory tours available while we are here, today was Dave’s Day. We took a train ride into the country, visited an airplane museum, and ate pizza for lupper (kinda lunch, also supper). Below, find the selection of photos he feels represents the highlights.

Today was Sunday. Rest day in Bavaria – all stores closed, and the city is out and about. So we packed the picnic we bought last night and headed for the park. Englischer Garten is a huge park, blocks from our hotel, in the heart of the city. It features weaving streams for swimming or…

Yup, technically another schloss on the books! Partly original, partly reconstruction (post-WWII) the Residenz was the seat of power for the Wittlesbach dynasty. The official description reads “the Residence Museum presents the art and culture of the Bavarian Court from the Renaissance to Early Baroque, Rococo and Neo-classicism. Precious reliquaries, bronze sculptures and East Asian…

Today was about one thing: the world’s largest science and technology museum, the Deutsches Museum. Today we visited the main museum – there is also a land transportation focused museum and an aviation museum – from opening at 9:00 am until they kicked us out at 5:00 pm. It’s an excellent museum, pitched at a…

Our adventures today began just by getting to our destination – somehow Dave talked Jen into renting electric scooters and they rolled their way along bike lanes for fifty minutes. Dave declared it fun, Jen hesitantly calls it type II fun because the learning curve was stressful. We finished the ride at a canal framing…

This morning we left the alpine countryside, and travelled by train to Munich. After checking in to our hotel, we went to a local dumpling shop. We both enjoyed a rice noodle, cucumber, carrot, edamame and peanut sauce to start. Then Dave had a spicy chicken dumpling, and Jen had pork, shrimp, and ginger. The…

The day was warm but dreary, with clouds lying low in the mountains and rain in the forecast. A good day for low elevation hiking, so we travelled west towards Hintersee and got off the bus at the Wimbachweg trail. We had two objectives: explore the Wimbachklamm and enjoy our final hut refreshments at Wimbachschloss.…

We discovered that the incredible 9 Euro pass (covering every bus and local / regional train in the country, all month) even gets us to Salzburg, Austria – so who are we to say no to an adventure? Salzburg is a big city, and known for it’s baroque architecture style. We wandered the distance between…

Today was forecast to be very hot, and true to forecast it hit 33 Celsius. We decided that was too hot for hiking, so we took the (air conditioned) train to Bad Reichenhall to see the Old Salt Works and wander the town. The “white gold” has been mined intensively here for hundreds of years,…