Bavaria 2006

Anyone got any advice for a 10 day Bavaria tour?
See/avoid places etc...........

Up to now we plan on visiting Chitty Bang Bang castle and getting very drunk
watching the World Cup in pubs.
Will be camping and B&B.

Thanks.

 

PS.
We don't want to do more than 2000 miles, Calais to Bavaria to Calais.
OR
Any other ideas?
All we have booked is Channel Tunnel 10 days in June.

 

It is June 2006.

You need to hire a Project Manager, or your Grand Design will never
materialise.

 

1.Don't miss the other castle, Hohenschwangau, doesn't get the
same(enormous) crowds.
2. A nice day out, get the cable car up walk down the mountain, lunch at the
pub on the way down. Marked route with safety wire and steps.
http://www.mittenwald.de/index.shtml?en_m_karwendelbahn
3.Nice bike circuit(pretties) south end of Walchensee east through
Jachenau(used to be a small toll IIRC)
http://www.jachenau.de/enid/2f49865...5a304092d09/Gaesteinformation/Anreise_34.html
4. I've only skied here but nice area
http://www.balderschwang.de/
also
http://www.nebelhorn.de/

Whatever you do, use the chairlifts/cable cars there are stunning views.

HTH.

 

(Apols for terrible schpelling in advance, I've just burnt my right hand -
don't ask).

Spend a couple of days in Munich.
The Food & Beer is marvellous.
Hofbrauhaus/Augusteiner Braustuben being my two faves.

The Deutches Museam is an amazing place.

Dachau is worth a guided visit.
I can totally vouch for radius tours, the guide was superbly knowledgable
and one of those people that you can just sit and listen too for hours.
http://www.radiusmunich.com/tours/dachau-concentration

As others have mentioned, Lindau / Lake Constance is well worth a visit,
lovely in the summer.

I'm going to be at the Nurburgring for a week from the 17th of June, I'm
currently trying to beg / borrow / steal a ticket for Eng vs Sweden in
Cologne on the 20th.

 

You can pee in the same urinal as Hitler did.....

.....I think the oompah band is the same as well....

Try the Haxenbauer if you like pork.

 

Get to Neuchwanstein early - the queues are interminable.
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According to mappy.fr Calais-Konstanz (as in, Lake Constance) is about
850kms. So that's about 1000-1100 miles there and back, with plenty to see
within a couple of hundred miles.

It'll be crowded down there.

 

At Lake Constance, aka the Bodensee, there is the Zeppelin museum.
That's where they were built.

One of my heroes is Dr Hugo Eckener[1], and if I ever get to the
Bodensee, that museum is on my list of must-sees.

[1] A genius, a visionary, and all round Good Egg.

 

Friedrichshafen, to be precise. Not too far from another
returned-from-exile UKRMer, AFAIK.

 

The chitty chitty bang bang town (think childcatcher)

<http://europeforvisitors.com/europe/galleries/germany/blg-d-rothenburg-i
ndex.htm>

and it's sister town Dinkelsbuehl

The other three Ludwig castles (Hohenschwangau is right next to
Neuschwanstein)

Berchtesgaden - hitler's pied a terre in the alps

not forgetting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Würzburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich

You should be able to do that in under 2000 miles

 

Why, were they missing the rain already?

 

'Kinell - Bavaria's grown since I was last there

 

err, the nordschleife was mentioned after the passage about Lindau etc

So following that, and the OP mentioning round ball game watching in bars in
DE, I think I can get away with that.

I wish the Ring *was* just outside Munich though, you wouldn't see me for
dust if it was !!

Good Beer, Hearty Food, De-Ristricted Toll Road...... bliss. (not all at the
same time obviously).

 

Been flattened though; is the Tea House still up the top, do you know?

 

Spoke to a friend in Munich last night - the weather there is atrocious
at the moment. Like the temperature not getting above 6C and stuff like
that.

 

Blimey.

Munich is a lovely place. July is fantastic with the beer gardens. The
winter's pretty good too 'cos it gets properly 'wintery' with decent
amounts of snow. I'd like to go back again soon, but maybe not until
the weather gets better.

It's odd, the weather in Dusseldorf seems worse than the weather in the
UK. I'm really not used to this, but I'm not complaining.

 

Agreed. I've always wanted to do the bierfest.

 

Yes, it is, and it's a cafe. Still accessible via the lift shaft they
cut through the rock.

 

Great fun - I was there on German Unification Night. To say I got drunk
is an understatement.