My Adventure to Germany: Bavaria (Munich)

Soo Kenra and I decided to make a trip to Munich and that area of Bavaria!

Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of 27,200 sq miles, it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany. Bavaria is Germany's second most populous state with 12.5 million inhabitants, more than any of the three sovereign states on its borders. Bavaria's capital and largest city is Munich, the third largest city in Germany.

Everything Americans think of about traditional Germany comes from this area. The Beer maids, the beer, the sausage and kraut, and lots more! Cordula and her Family live in this area and her sister Regina lives in Munich and that’s who we stayed with when we went there!

It all started off with us and a friend Tiffany from K-State going with us on this trip, Audrey was finishing up her major project here for school and decided to not to go with us. So we were up at 5 am and off to the train station and Tiffany didn’t show, when we called her she was still in bed and the next train we could catch was a long time away so Kenra and I left her. She was not very happy with us but she had kind of invited herself on this trip so it ended up just being Kenra and I and it was a lot of fun!!

So we took the slow trains to Munich so we had to change trains 5 times and it was about a 9 hour ride. We arrived in the afternoon and Regina met us right at the train station and we went back to her place. She Lives about 20 minutes by train on the east side of town. She works as a Civil engineer for the train company and they have a little area of apartment housings that she lives in a flat with her littlest sister!

We put our stuff down and talked to her a lot before we decided to go into the city and walk around and let Regina show us around and take us to a good place to eat! We ate at Hofbrauhaus , one of the most famous places to eat in Munich for tourists. It was a HUGE open mess hall that seated probably 500 hundred or more people to eat and drink. It was soo loud and there was a band playing and everything!

We sat down and each ordered a liter of traditional Bavarian beer and I ate Port roast and a potato ball, with gravy! Kenra had roasted chicken and potato salad. IT was so delicious and we were stuffed!! After we were both really tired but we walked around the city center and look around and Regina told us a lot about the buildings and stuff! Then we went home and crashed! We needed to get up early in the morning! Regina let us stay on a pull out sofa and we slept like a baby all weekend!

The next morning we got up and went at the train station to meet a tour group for the Neuschwanstein Castle tour! This was SOOO EXCITING AND AWESOME!!! This is probably the most famous castle in the world and has quite an exciting story behind it and about it! I bought a book about it so if anyone wants to read about it than they can!!! It was built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and was located at the edge of the Alps in the town of Füssen which was about 2 hours away!

So this castle was built by the mad Kinf Ludwig II himself and has such an interesting story behind it I dont even know where to begin! so Ludwig was born in the summer castle that was near to here and grew up in this area. He never married and there were rumers he was gay. But he had a lot of Mental problems. He became King as a young man and wanted to have a fairy tale castle built. so he had an artist draw him a picture of what the artist thought one would look like and when he was done Ludwig took the drawing to an architect and said Build me this! They began construction in 1868 and worked until 1884 but the construction stoped when Ludwig died and only 1/3 of the castle was complete!

But the castle was so awesome! We had to walk up a long ways to get to the castle and then when we got there we were given a personal tour of the interior of the castle and man was it BEAUTIFUL! After the interior tour we walked down the backside of the castle where we went to the really high bridge that was located right behind the castle. It was really packed and super high. I was actually really scared of this; it was really high off the ground. And it was packed!!!

After this we walked or more like climbed down the side of the mountain right along a river and by MANY beautiful waterfalls!! It was really pretty, just as gorgeous as the castle its self!

All around the castle there are a couple beautiful lakes and the view from the castle out towards Germany and away from the Alps was beautiful!!!!!!

We don’t the Train back into Munich and Regina decided to take us to another local traditional German Restaurant! I ordered a plate full of 3 different types of sausages and sauerkraut, it was the best food I have ever had!!! Yummy!!! Mom and dad will defiantly be eating here with me again! This time we also had a traditional apple streusel dessert with ice cream and it was so yummy too!!!

The next day Kenra and I got up and went on a train for 2 hours to Salzburg, Austria! Kenra was really excited about this town because of the American Move “the Sound of Music.” One of Kenras favorites! When we got off at the train station we walked to an information desk and booked tickets to take the Sound of Music Bus tour and then grabbed some Breakfast at a local dinner, Scrambled eggs and sausage with Fresh squeezed orange juice.

Then we caught the bus full of about 50 people. This bus took us all over town and pointed out historical places along with places that were in the movie. Then the bus took us out of town to look at over 4 beautiful lakes right in the middle of the Alps! It was soo BEAUTIFUL!!!

We went to a little town where the church was that the couple in the sound of music got married in and it was surprisingly beautiful!

We then went back into town to Salzburg and looked around the old city area, a beautiful palace with gardens and all over the shopping area along with the huge church!!!

We made it back into town very late and went to bed. The next day Kenra and I woke up and went to a free walking tour of Munich, which would have been an AWESOME thing except that it was raining like cats and dogs and a little bit cold. We walked around and followed but finally ditched the group and went shopping!

We walked all over the little market areas and I ate a horse sausage with kraut. I really wanted to buy a few good knickknacks and souvenirs that I had been trying to buy over this trip!

We then went back to Regina’s Flat where we got to meet her parents who were there visiting and helping her fix up the Kitchen a bit! They were soo nice, but I don’t think they understood a lot that Kenra and I said! We also got to meet the youngest sister who is 18 I think, and was also really nice! The whole family is wonderful!!!!

That night we went to bed and got up at 3 am to catch the subway to go to the train station and then we took the long train ride back to Trier!!!

The whole weekend was WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!! And Anna was there in Trier waiting for me when I got back!!

Here are a few other pictures from the girls from Nice, France! I thought i would share them!!!