Salzburg

during our first week in Munich, we made a side trip to Salzburg, the birth place of Mozart, as well the place where they filmed the Sound of Music.

we rented a car and took 3 of the DH colleges along. with me as the guide. haha, they're all at the mercy of my map navigating skillz/GPRS.

we managed to get there by late lunch. i made the DH take a small detour when we passed by another one of Bavaria many lakes.

Finally, Mozart's birth house. we didn't go in. as expected from any touristy location, full of tourists. :P



another romantic "by the bridge" picture



apparently they're still discoverying archeological important finds when they're renovating/reconstructing. same as when we were in Praque. that's the beauty of building over old foundations. it helps to preserve things very well.



the sunday market was in progress.



i grew up reading Enid Blyton so it was very exciting for me to see these babies. oh i eat them all the time, but we usually get them in their brown roasted shells already.



that's it for Salzburg. it's a small place and all the major sites can be covered on foot. i originally planned to see some other places but we ended up getting lost and felt it was safer to drive back to Munich. tt gets dark too early in autumn.

Praque

I don't suppose blogger wants to load properly on this computer anymore. huge bummer. so here goes, Praque in october of 2008.

actually im' just going to say that i love trout. it's amongst the most amazingly tasty fish i have ever eaten. the next best was some unknown fish in Shanghai (i suspect catfish but it was already cut up in pieces).



i also love the bread pudding in Praque, not to mention the goulash.



so anyways, we left Munchen for Praque from Hauptbahnhof, the central train station.



we arrived in the late afternoon while there was still light and went looking for our lunchner. afterwards we did some initial exploring round the new town.



modern shopping street.



Praque is famous for many eerie tales, as you can see from the scary looking churches and cathedrals.





however these buildings are full of history and are actually very pretty during the day.



we stayed in a backpackers lodge and our room could accomodate 3 but we requested for privacy.



the shared toilet is actually down the hall and lets just say i had to go to the loo many times. it's a long trek. luckily the windows in the toilet was double paned so it was not so cold during my twice a day shower.

even the hub caps are beautiful in this historical town.



there seem to be a freak cold spell when we were there (it did snow in germany) so it was very windy and cold during our entire trip. the mist and fog made the place rather sad.



if i were to remember correctly, the green domed building is a theater. praque is full of theaters and there are people performing almost nightly. emsembles and orchestras and singers and not to mention the numerous puppet shows. the churches all turn into mini theaters at night.



like i said, artists are everywhere. music fills the air and there's always something interesting to watch.







John Lennon's wall. when he was assasinated some guy grafittied on this wall, drawing his portrait. countless people have drawn over the original portrait.





i'm happiest when i am hiking.



a lovely couple taking their wedding photoes. i think they might actually be from China or Taiwan.



and finally, the Praque Castle at night, taken from the New town. the Castle is located across the bridge, at the Old town.



we left on a tuesday morning back into Munich to pick up our car and embark on our road trip.

german holiday - pt 3

Still at the Bodensee, but at the town of ... Omg I can't remember already. but i think it's where you can see the ballons. basically we drove around the whole of the Lake until the Swiss border.





the car door got frozen shut!



our lovely hotel in the black forest



after breakfast, we drove back downhill and proceeded to Colmar, a town at the French/German border. the site along the way was spectacular, it was a romantic christmas scene except that it was october.



on we go into France!



Colmar is a very well preserved medieval town and is also known as the Venice of France with it's many canals.





we walked around the town and had lunch. the place had a very christmassy atmosphere and i bought me the yummiest gingerbread man at a christmas treats shop. we also came across a mushroom shop. hee!!





after that we had to head back into Germany as the sun does set very early in autumn.



more snowcapped mountains. our night was spent at another town in the black forest.

in the morning, we explored the town and it specialises in coukoo clocks. haha. how do you spell that? how can we not visit the black forest and not come back with a cuukoo clock. heehee.. we got a small one.







after this we drove back toward Munich and stopped by another town of ??? for the night before our flight homw the next day. there's this darling plush shop...



i want everything in there!

i miss germany. i loved it when i was there. i would go back again if i have sufficient funds and leaves to take. :P:P:P

i will try to put up the rest of my european trip in the next intervening... days i hope. besides Bavaria we also went to Salzburg(day trip) as well as Praque.

german holiday - pt 2

after coming back from Praque we embarked on the second leg of our bavarian holiday. the DH drove us to our first stop. my first B&B. it's such a lovely place by Lake Weissensee but we got there after dark, which was 5 pm eh heh heh.

such a pretty bed

view outside the room. Weissensee

a romantic breakfast at the cottage. this is when we find the next room for the night.

so for most of the trip we stopped by little towns to have lunch and explore or shop. drive, eat, look, drive, stop, lookk, drive, eat, sleep. :P oh and book the room for the next night. yeah.

between the two fo us we're freckles heaven

Lake Bodensee (opposite the lake is switzerland)

see the snow capped mountains on the opposite bank? Switzerland!
as we drove inland we sighted more snow.. and it got more and more!

our second night was spent in the snow capped Black Forest. in october! there was a freak snow storm that swept across europe but only the mountainous had snow.

long but scenic drivesbtry ing to make sense of the infuriating GPRS system

cute little room in the black forest, night 3