We drove close to six hours from Hutschenhausen to Garmisch-Parkenkirchen, a town in southern Germany not far from the border with Austria, and we stayed at Edelweiss Lodge & Resort. Our ETA was midnight and as we were driving thru Austria, we were stopped by the police in a checking point (they might have been looking for drunk drivers). Anyway, the policeman starts speaking German and fortunately Matt was able to ask him if he spoke any English; luckily he did. We were there less than a couple of minutes and on our way to the hotel.
Garmicsh is such a cute town. It hosted the 1936 Winter Olympics and they are getting ready to bid on the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Edelweiss Lodge:
After getting a good night sleep and getting up early, we went on a tour bus to Munich (an hour away from Garmish). We drove around the city and were able to see where the famous Oktoberfest takes place, different architectural buildings, the Hall of Fame and Statue of Bavaria, the statue of Maximilian, among other things. One of our destinations was to tour the Treasury in the Munich Residenz, where they display various priceless objects from different periods.
We then walked to the Town Hall; the building is amazing: Gothic Revival architecture and it’s main tower has a huge coo-coo clock called Münchner Kindl. We witnessed the 15 minute performance at noon – this is definitely a tourist attraction!
The Münchner Kindl:
All these little creatures dance around at the sound of the bells:
Statue of Mary and Jesus outside Town Hall:
We walked inside St. Peter’s Church which is the oldest church in Munich – it dates back to the 8th century:
At the end we had lunch at Hofbrauhaus; we enjoyed great German food, great music and all the adults (except me-for obvious reasons) enjoyed good German beer.
The famous 1 liter beers:
I'm just pretending, this was actually Matt's drink:
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