I’ll preface this trip diary by saying this was not only one of my favorite days on this trip, but also one of my favorite days on any trip I have ever taken. I started out the day expecting to have a nice day out in Liechtenstein, and mostly failed at that. I did succeed […]
Art fan? Munich, Germany has enough art museums to keep even the most ardent museum-goer busy. While I previously wrote about my trip to the Haus der Kunst, on my final day in Munich, I opted to visit a cluster of art museums called Kunstareal in the city’s Maxvorstadt district. The weather was grey and damp, so it […]
The first time I visited Germany, I was 15. I’d never been away from home before without my parents, much less to another continent. I went with a high school summer trip. While I gradually became accustomed to traveling, and by the end of the trip in London, I had found a country I had would […]
If you’re looking to experience life as locals do when you’re traveling, one good way to do that is by attending a sporting event. Whenever I’m traveling in the U.S., I try to visit new baseball stadiums. When I was in Australia, I attended a rugby match in Sydney. When I was in Munich, I […]
I woke up the next morning with a cold. Or more accurately, I never really woke up, since just as I started to fall asleep my throat began to ache as if I had swallowed glass shards instead of Oktoberfest beer. I’d started the trip with my sleep being negatively impacted by jet lag and […]
My time in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was over, so the next morning I headed to the train station to catch a lunchtime train to Munich. With Oktoberfest in full swing, the train was packed. I had a seat, but no real place to put my suitcase, since the train lacked adequate storage space. I wasn’t the only […]
When I got back to the ATLAS Grand Hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen after Oktoberfest, I realized that I needed to do something about my sleeping arrangement there. My mattress there was the hardest mattress I had slept on in my entire life. It barely felt like a mattress at all. I tolerated it my first night because I […]
I was well-rested heading into my 5th day of the trip, and for good reason. I headed to Munich for the opening day of Oktoberfest 2014. As good luck would have it, my flatmate from when I lived in Glasgow also happened to be in Munich for it. I hadn’t seen him for about 8 years, so […]
Besides it being a picturesque mountain town, one of the main reasons why I chose to stay in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was its prime location in southern Germany for taking day trips. On Friday, I took the train for a day trip to Innsbruck from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Innsbruck is about 1 hour, 30 minutes away from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. As you’d […]
With the nice September weather holding, I decided to spend my 2nd full day in Germany up in the mountains surrounding Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Zugspitze is the highest mountain in Germany, towering over the region at 9,718 feet. There are several ways of reaching the top. You can take a train from the town, winding through the valley before climbing […]
One thing that I love about going to Europe is just how well the public transportation systems are integrated. Munich has several levels of public transportation systems, ranging from buses to light rail to commuter rail, to finally the DB Bahn train network. Everything is well-connected, so getting from the Munich airport to my final […]
Back in September 2014, I traveled to Germany to do some hiking in the Alps as well as attend Oktoberfest. During the first part of my trip, I spent a few days in the Alps in Garmish-Partenkirchen, with day trips to Innsbruck, Austria as well as Zugspitze, the highest point in Germany. After that, I spent a […]
