Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Where to eat when everything is closed
Waking up in our van on Good Friday, we kinda forgot that everything would be closed. Sooo, eating snacks was on the menu. Walking through a deserted city centre of Garmisch-Partenkirchen seemed pretty peaceful. There was literally one pastry shop open where I happily bought a coffee to go, some chocolate and some treat called “Boppes“ (never heard of it, but it’s so tasty with some marzipan and nuts inside and lots of pastry). Happy Easter to me!
Eibsee
Paying for parking sucks
After looking at some of the residential areas (Blake loves doing that), we drove to the Eibsee which is located at the foot of the Zugspitze (highest mountain in Germany) from where you could also take up the gondola to the peak in non-covid times. We paid 7€ for parking (we do not like paying for parking or for public toilets, but who likes that anyways) and did a loop around the lake with stunning views from all sides that took about 2 hours.
Near Oberammergau
Monestary Ettal
We then drove further to the monestary Ettal near Oberammergau where we flew the drone and bought some cheese in the nearby cheese factory (more snacks for the night).
Castle Linderhof
After that we went to the Castle Linderhof that used to belong to King Ludwig II., who lived in it as a hermit during his former times. We were first very disappointed by the castle but quickly found out that we were just looking at the restaurant and not the castle itself.
Quaint Bavarian town
Driving away from the castle (after having paid for parking again of course), we stopped at one of these little cute Bavarian towns that has one church in the middle and lots of little farm houses around it, in order to fly the drone. One older Bavarian man came up to Blake and started talking in German to him non-stop. Of course Blake didn’t understand a thing so when Blake told him his usual sentence „Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch“, the guy switched immediately into English. We always love meeting the locals and he told us very interesting things about the region and how most of them are farmers as a second job while they primarily work in the bigger city nearby.
Pfronten
Wine and cheese for dinner
Stopping at a petrol station that had an Edeka attached (probably the only one that was open in the region on Good Friday – so lucky!), we bought crackers and some spreads to have a wine and cheese night (Now it’s a meal). Again, the simple things! Passing Schloss Neuschwanstein, the Disney Castle (we didn’t stop as we had already visited it on our summer road trip on the way to Slovenia), we stopped at a chapel in a little town called Pfronten where we wanted to stay the night.
Helpful Bavarians
Five minutes in, some guy knocked on our van window to ask if we were staying the night here. We thought we’d be in trouble when we slowly nodded. But all he wanted was to suggest a better parking spot for us right at a forest with no houses around and just nature – so kind! We followed him to the suggested parking spot, had a beer with him when we arrived and exchanged travel stories (and heard his sad covid story as he had bought an Irish Pub to fulfill his dream two months before covid hit last March).
Note to ourselves: Always park the car straight
Once he was gone, we got cozy on the front seats with wine and cheese before getting even cozier in the back of the van. Unluckily, we had parked at an angle so during the night I kept falling onto Blake which he probably didn’t mind too much ;-).
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