Autobahnanza

Back to Bavaria

Thursday morning’s arrival meant that it was time for us to depart Italia. After breakfast, we packed up our bags, loaded the car, said goodbye to Margherita, and hit the ricky road. We took a quick car ferry across the lake which saved us a good bit of driving distance. It was on the ferry where I discovered that I accidentally kept the key to our room at the Hotel Aurora. Doh! Guess I’ll be mailing a big heavy key back to Italy when we get home.


This turned out to be a very long driving day, but the driving was incredible! The bimmer carved up the alps with no trouble, and we were treated to many breathtaking mountain vistas along the way. The streams in Switzerland were an amazing bright blue color and were very inviting. Unfortunately I couldn’t get any good pictures of these streams. Dang it!

Our Bavarian destination on this day was the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. I had never heard of this place, but my Grandfather highly recommended it so we were eager to check it out. It turns out that Garmisch is picture-perfect Bavaria. From the architecture, to the food, to surrounding alps, it was a great place to spend an evening. We stayed at a quaint gasthof run by the friendly, directionally-impaired, English-speaking Klaus. We took a small hike, explored the town, and had a traditional German dinner, complete with boys in lederhosen dancing. Unfortunately, we arrived too late to take the cable car up the nearby Zugspitze peak.



I’ve got to go, someone is videotaping me in my spaceship.

posted by Chris @ 9:11 AM