We arrived in Munich around 3 o’clock in the afternoon of course to us it was 10 in the morning, by the time we got the rental car and found the hotel it was almost 6. In Munich we stayed at the beautiful ultra modern Sofitel hotel right in downtown Munich, so we were able to walk everywhere. The room was gorgeous two stories, very modern, with one huge window that was the entire outside wall upstairs and downstairs and a gorgeous shower that we might be coping for our bathroom renovation.
The staff was so nice and surprised us with champagne and strawberries and a very nice hand written note for our honeymoon right when we walked into the room.
Then when we went upstairs to the bedroom they surprised us with the cutest bride and groom rubber duckies.
After freshening up and talking to the concierge about a non-touristy place to eat, we headed out downtown walking to the Marienplatz, it was so close and just like you see in pictures. We had a little trouble finding the first two places he recommended, but we stumbled across the third and went inside. We had no idea, that Germans sit family style anywhere there is a seat, with complete strangers. We didn’t mind, the food was so good, the best food we had in Germany, and so was the beer. Dan had the Wiener schnitzel with German potato salad and I had the sausage platter with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut, they were both so good. After dinner we enjoyed a few more beers, an after dinner drink, and then walked around downtown. Since we had not really slept the night before and arrived in London around 5am our time, we were ready to go to bed, but took some advice and stayed up to try and get on their time.
Going to bed at 11 didn’t help I still woke up around 12:30pm, good thing we changed our plans to go to the castles the next day. We decided to walk around town again went to lunch at a little place that had the best fries I had ever eaten, I had cordon bleu wiener schnitzel and Danny had currywurst. Then we walked all over to Marienplatz again, Hofbräuhaus, the opera house, the royal residents and the gardens then back to the hotel.
After relaxing, and freshening up we grabbed a taxi to head back down to Hofbräuhaus, since we didn’t go into the right section the first time. What a neat place, I can understand why it’s a must see, such a fun atmosphere with great food, beer, music and company. We sat with a nice family from California and two wild German guys that were friends with the band that made the evening very interesting. After a dinner of pork knuckle, a sausage platter, chocolate mousse and beer we decided to call it a night since we were determined to get up early the next morning.
We managed to get up and out early and headed to Fussen to see the castles, yes not one but two gorgeous castles in Fussen. King Ludwig’s parent’s summer home, Hohenschwangau, he grew up in and another castle you can see from it the summer home he built for himself, Neuschwanstein, that Walt Disney based his first castle Sleeping Beauty’s castle in Disneyland on. They both were gorgeous and I couldn’t believe they were built in the 1800’s they looked so medieval. King Ludwig was very eccentric! Since we arrived a little after 11, and the next tour for the first castle was 12:40 and then the next castle 2:45 we got to spend some time enjoying restaurants, shops and a horse ride to the top for the second castle. It was a great day!! Tiring, but well worth it!
Since we changed our planes to reverse the days instead of going back to Munich after the castles we headed to our next stop Rothenburg. I had seen pictures of this adorable town and just had to go, I had actually saved pictures of this town on my computer and never knew where it was then found it again when researching Germany, so it was a must see. We got in a little late so the town was pretty much closed, so we ate dinner at the cute hotel and then called it a night, so sweet the hotel surprised us with rose petals on the bed!
The next morning we went out early to walk around the town, it was so cute it almost seem fake, I kept thinking I was at Disney in Epcot or something, realizing of course no this is the real thing that they base it off of silly! It was so cute! After a nice day of walking, shopping, and eating, we grabbed some of their famous dough balls and headed to find where my parents lived in the 70’s where my sister was born.
After getting lost because of the GPS we finally made it to Kirchburg, took some pictures to send my parents and headed to Freiberg for our next stop. We arrived in Freiburg to the beautiful panorama hotel which is on the side of a mountain and overlooked the entire city, just gorgeous! We had a little bit of a rough time finding a place to eat, we ended up going to a Chinese Buffet, yes a Chinese Buffet in Germany, same concept, but very very different. After dinner and having some difficulties finding our way back to the hotel because of construction and one way streets we went back to the hotel to enjoy the complimentary bottle of champagne and our last night of German MTV because the next day we were off to Paris!!
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