Saturday, October 28, 2006

Guten Tag {Hello}


Greetings from Germany. We have been here almost a week and today is the first time we have had internet access! We have traveled 1300 miles and have had a great time. We started the week in the Triberg, which is in the Black Forest Region of the country, home to Black Forest cake and cuckoo clocks. We walked up a huge hill and viewed the tallest waterfall in the country. We did not get to the top as fog was overtaking the walk and we were tired. Unfortunately, we never did eat any Black Forest cake BUT we did get a cuckoo clock {here it is, Tim and the kids were quite taken by this one}

We then ventured over to Fussen, which is in the Bavarian Alps, and what beautiful scenery! We stayed in a quaint hotel in the middle of the village and used it as our center point for the two days we were in the area. Here we had fabulous traditional German food - pork, sauerkraut, potato dumplings and BEER.

We visited Neuschwanstein Castle which was the inspiration for Walt Disney when creating his catles at the Disney Parks. We can see why he used this location WOW is all I can say about it.




We then left the Alps and headed back up north to Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen Plant and their entertainment facility called Autostadt. On the way to Wolfsburg Tim discovered his 'need for speed'. He enjoyed driving on the Autobahn at speed of up to 190Km per hour {approximately 120 MPH} even at this speed we were being passed as if we were standing still. We head home tomorrow so we will post more then.

Auf Wiedersehen! {goodbye} more when we get back.

1 comment:

Diana said...

Glad to hear you are having FUN:) We had a cuckoo clock when I was growing up and even after I moved out I would "hear" it at night cuckoo cockooing.