Travelling... AGAIN

We spent our last days at Garmisch (most likely last) last week. Travelling there was quite the experience. Left the A5 to go on the A8 and shortly hit a stau. (Stau for you non-German speakers, including me LOL is a traffic jam - frightening to hear of 10+km staus!... that's about 6 miles) Driving around in the dark in an area we don't know is interesting, but thank goodness for GPS. How did we ever get by without it? More the question should be how did MEN get by without it? Coming back wasn't a lot better as we hit one little village that was still in the midst of its fasching parade. Yikes!

Nonetheless, it was a good trip. I relaxed and stitched. We went on a bus ride to Innsbruck to see the altstadt and Imperial Court Palace. The mountains from Garmisch to Innsbruck are just AMAZING! One must come to Europe to just see the wonders. The older boys (DH and CG) went skiing over the weekend. I insisted they go ahead and do the Zugspitze on Sunday. Not many can say they've skiied the tallest mountain in Germany back in the states. Driving home, we came up the Romantic Road. If the Amish one time were from Germany and came to Ohio, they got it right in settling in Holmes County. The rolling hills and fields west of Garmisch are just beautiful and remind me of driving up Ohio Route 39 out of Dover towards Sugarcreek and beyond.

We stopped at an interesting Rasthof along the A7. See picture above. The "old days" of travelling the states and finding odd places hasn't died in Germany it would seem... It looks like an ice cream stand. The bathrooms had birds chirping (tape or CD I HOPE! LOL) and it just gave one the sense of a carnival or something in that stop. It was a fun place. I bet it's a nice place for the kids in the summer. There's a playground outside and an indoor kinderspiel of sorts as well.

Future travel plans... Koln to do chocolate, Netherlands to get to Amsterdam, HOPEFULLY Madrid, and maybe Venice. Those are the big things to do. There's a restaurant I want to go to but can't remember the website at the moment, outside of Frankfurt. The schnitzels and burgers (yes! burgers) are the size of dinner plates! Yes, we continue our eating and drinking across europe :)

Speaking of drinking I went to the bazaar on post this morning. My fave wine seller was there, with my favorite wine, GLUHWEIN! White gluhwein. Yes, they do make a white version. I had to buy 6 bottles. He goes to Rhine Ordinance Barracks in two weeks... guess where I'll be in two weeks. :) Gotta get my fill before going home. We may have to go ahead and commercially ship our wine collection home. It keeps growing in spite of our drinking it up.