Bavarian Christmas Market tour – Day 6
Today’s Adventure….. Bamberg! Bamberg is a wonderful town…. not huge by any stretch of the imagination (77,500) but one with no less than 9 UNESCO World Heritage sites!! Here’s one….This is the Altes Rathaus (old city hall) which sits in the middle of the river. Long story here but after the city fathers got into […]
Bavarian Christmas Market tour – Day 5
Nürnberg!! This is the big one! The biggest Market on our tour and so much more!! Churches, Castle and Wall, Art History, Architecture, History…. enough to interest anyone! And did I mention food and bier? Yup, you can find it here!! The largest city in Franconia (a part of Bavaria), Nürnberg, along with neighboring Erlangen […]
Bavarian Christmas Market tour – Day 4
Sorry for today’s late post! Today was our trip from Garmisch to Regensburg. 2:30 ride on the autobahn…. long ride, traffic slowdowns. But we made it!! So what did we do? Well, we drove on the Autobahn…. some of the ladies wanted me to drive fast (I only went 150 km/hr (93 mph)). And we […]
Bavarian Christmas Market tour – Day 3
Would saying that it was a FANTASTIC day seem a bit boastful? Well, it was!! It really was! We got up early to get to Neuschwanstein early so breakfast started at 7 and we were off for the castle at 8. We arrived at 830 and there was already a big line at the ticket […]
Bavarian Christmas Market tour – Day 2
Today we drove from Stuttgart down into the Alps of southern Bavaria. As we approached Füssen (our overnight town), we could see the Alps rising in front of us. And we saw snow!! It looked to be a fresh snowfall which really improved everyone’s mood. You can’t beat snow at Christmas time in Bavaria!! Our […]
Bavarian Christmas Market Tour – Day 1
After an uneventful flight across the pond, we all made it to Stuttgart to start our Bavarian Christmas Market Adventure. Yes, I know….. Stuttgart is in the state of Baden-Württemberg. But I think it’s the best place to start our adventure. There is a few reasons behind this choice…. 1) a non-stop flight (usually) from […]
And… The Recap
Yes….. it’s over! I’m sitting in the Delta Club in Frankfurt waiting to board the flight home. But you really know that you’re almost back home once you reach the Airport…. that’s when you see sights like this….It makes me a little sad to be leaving Germany but I’m very excited to get home to […]
The Wine Ride – Stage 6…. Miltenberg to Aschaffenburg
The last day!!! And ready to go! It is supposed to be a bit shorter but you never know. And you never know about the weather either! It was a little breezy so at least for me a windbreaker was in order. The ride was nice, on the west side of the Spessart Mountains and […]
The Wine Ride – Stage 5 Marktheidenfeld to Miltenberg
Stage 5…. every day a little closer to the end! And the weather seems to get better! Today we went from Marktheidenfeld to Miltenberg…. this is a curvy stretch where the Main River becomes a bit serpentine. Like I said, the weather was improving daily and today we had some spectacular views of the Spessart […]
The Wine Ride…. Stage 4…. Karlstadt to Marktheidenfeld
Stage 4 …. getting closer to the end of this adventure. We left from Karlstadt and headed 50 km to Marktheidenfeld, another wonderful town on the Main River in Franconia. Today’s ride had us on the eastern edge of the Spessart Mountains, as the Main River heads south….The red arrows show our start in the […]