Berchtesgaden Day 1

Today we got up and headed to our next stop - Berchtesgaden. We could check in early which was nice so we headed straight here. I was a tad nervous that the seats in the car would makes my back worse as it was feeling pretty good this morning, and I had Raymond drive, and the passenger seat is awful too! So I ended up sitting in the back which was much more comfortable! I don’t know why those seats in the front are so bad! Raymond even complains about how awful they are and he is usually fine with whatever. But we made the long-ish drive and got here and my back was still doing good so that is good!

We are staying just outside the town of Berchtesgaden (the address is just inside Schönau am Königssee) and it should be surrounded by mountain views, but it was so foggy all day you couldn’t see anything. I’m hoping tomorrow it will be a bit clearer! It was only a half hour walk into town so we headed off to see what we could see. I planned this stop specifically for tomorrow - they have an interesting Krampus run with them covered in straw so I wanted to see that. I didn’t expect the town to be very big or interesting as a lot of the small towns we went to last year weren’t but they had nice views.

When driving here we stopped for lunch and it was freezing! Literally! I was like why is it always so cold when we stop for lunch?? So when we got here and there was still some snow on the ground we figured it would be super cold like or lunch stop and bundled up…only it wasn’t? We were like how is it so warm when we are literally walking through snow?? But now we know not to bundled up so much tomorrow!

On the way into town we kept seeing all these spiderwebs covered in ice which I don’t think I have ever seen before! And we walked down a path through the forest and Raymond was like we should probably go get flashlights as it will be dark by the time we are coming back…but I had planned to come back via the road so we were good (it would have been way to dark to go back that way!). We just went the forest way to go spy on the Krampus route for tomorrow! I don’t really know how many people there will be, there are no signs or anything about it happening, so we shall see! But there were tons of super cute Krampus things all over town!! I loved them all!

The town was bigger and nicer than I expected. Lots of very nice art places and craft stores and I loved it. The Christmas market also was pretty good! Small, but not as small as we expected (and bigger than Bamberg!), but all the stands were super nice things or different foods. They even have 4 or 5 Vegan options which I was not expecting! So we are going to plan on having lunch there before the Krampusse come!

All around town were also these giant wooden sculptures like those wooden Christmas ornaments. That was fun to try and find them all. We did go in St Peter und Johannes der Täufer (John the Baptist) church and it was very pink inside from the lighting! Not what I was expecting!

The place we are staying had Christmas market mugs here as a gift for us and for us to use to get hot beverages if we want so we had brought them along and got something before we headed for home. I tried the blood orange punch which was better than I expected (I thought it would be just like hot orange juice, but it wasn’t really) and Raymond had a gluhwein which he enjoyed. It was nice having a hot beverage on our walk back!

I did find a fun Krampus Christmas ornament that I love and some Krampus tree toppers (even a straw one!) that I am thinking about getting…they are kind of expensive, but handmade ceramic so it makes sense so we shall see. I forgot to take photos of them, but we shall spy again tomorrow and see if I bring one home with me.

We also stopped at a cafe that had a couple vegan things and got a piece of walnut cake which looks delicious! That is for later, but it should be good! And I made some of my curry lentil soup which we love. I make it all the time as it is easy and quick and delicious! (https://jessicainthekitchen.com/vegan-coconut-c… this is the recipe I use if anyone is interested, but with yellow curry paste as I like the flavor more. It is not very spicy either so you can always add more spice if making it for people who don’t like spicy things).

Today was a surprisingly good day! Berchtesgaden was really nice, the Christmas market was wonderful, and all the Krampus stuff was so cute!! I can’t wait to see them tomorrow!Читать далее