Zugspitze is the highest peak in Germany - 10000 feet
We still have 2 days to go on our van ride through Bavaria - but while the girls are shopping - I got a chance to go back to the hotel and set up this page. We had been lucky with th weather in Bavaria - it is bright and sunny today - 65 degrees. One of Lulu's library friends - Helga Hoffman - served as our tour guide in Munich. She arranged meals - attractions - rides - etc.
This truck wreck on the Autobahn held us up an hour
Our hotel in Fussen was really nice right downtown
This military jeep - Mercedes with snorkel - neat
Fussen is colorful - a few miles from Neuschwanstein Castle
Marylou bought this flower pot as a stool to
get into the van - you can see what happened - lucky her -
Carl was not as lucky
We got detoured into Austria - the Alps were very amazing
Lulu was overwhelmed and did her little dance
Lulu is the reason we are all able to enjoy this
wonderful German experience
Our Ford diesel 6 speed manual van.
We looked like an old folks home of Amish People
The hills are alive with the sound of music
Going up Zugspitze on cable car
Zugspitze - 10000 feet up - wonderful skies
We went to the top on cable car - 10000 feet up
in 10 minutes
Snow ball fights at the top
Pretzel and drinks at the top
Lulu doing here wonder woman routine
A ski lodge near the top
A cog railroad brought us back down
In the electric cog train - the seats are slanted
Notice the cog track where the gears hooked
This Morgan +8 parked next to us in Berchtesgaden.
They had 215 HP Buick V8 in them.
The view from our hotel balcony in Berchtesgaden
Hitler's Wolk's Lair - Wolf was his nickname. He
spent much of his time hiding up here with Eva Braun
A museum at bottom of mountain near Wolf's Lair
This map showed buildings at Wolf's Lair
Hitler Bunker at Wolf's Lair - miles of underground tunnels
More tunnels under Wolf's Lair
Some tunnels had beautiful brick work
The view from near Wolf's Lair
We took a boat tour at Berchtesgaden National Park
A long fiord like glacier lake was unworldly
At the far end of the lake at Berchtesgaden Park -
was and old church and monestary
These tractor were on a barge being pushed up the lake
Wednesday night at Hofbrau Haus in Munich.
Jean and Bill provided a wonderful German dinner
We tour the Olympic Park at Munich
and went up that 300 meter tower
We rode this train at Munich Olympic Park -
Carl is an engineer by profession
Munich Olympic Stadium from the tower
These beautiful mountains were made from rubble
from World War II
BMW Factory and Museum form tower
Our guide Helga was in the middle -
she planned a nice day that is still going on
A government building in Munich
If you want to feel like an old gray invalid -
enjoy a one hour rickshaw tour for $30 per person
We could have never covered this much ground
without dying
My favorite place for beer - Hofbrau Haus -Munich
Marylou and my Cousin Carl Zimmerman
This plaza is where Hitler organized his coup.
Munich is a rich city - this is their government house
These girls looked different
This Lamborghini cut off our rickshaw
Michael Jackson hung his baby of the
balcony of this hotel. Now they paste
pictures all over this statue of some
other guy
Tomorrow we drive home from Munich to Berlin by way of Dachau. We will visit the Mazi's first concentration camp and the SS Westpoint - officers training area. Our guests leave for the USA Sunday. We leave on Wednesday for Florida - and home.
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