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- Dec 14, 2024, 8:43 PM
- ☁️ 3 °C
- Altitude: 531 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Mary's Square 48.137108, 11.57538248°8’14” N 11°34’31” E
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Munich
December 14 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 3 °C
After a long but less stressful train journey, we arrived in Munich. The old town was stunning and the various Christmas markets were amazing and very festive. We visited the Munich Residenz home of former royals and dignitaries. There was certainly money in this elaborate estate.
Trip to a traditional Bier Keller where of course we had to try a Stein and ham hock!
Next stop SalzburgRead more
Traveler Massive beers!
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Traveler When in Rome and all that 😊
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Traveler But your in Germany 🇩🇪 🤣🤣🍻🍺
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Traveler Good pick up !! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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The Apple Strudel Tour
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- Sep 6, 2024, 9:28 PM
- 🌙 20 °C
- Altitude: 533 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Haidhausen Kultfabrik 48.124756, 11.59983148°7’29” N 11°35’59” E
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Helene: The Strudeling has begun.
September 6 in Germany ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
After losing a nights sleep enroute to Munich… we were able to regroup today and naturally eating helped.

When we hit big cities, our Inner New Yorkers come out but here in Munich the roads are filled with fast cars and they abide by traffic signals with precision. For us this means not going against the light…as we do in NYC but instead waiting. It’s been a whirlwind of activity in the past 30 hours since our arrival so I’ll post the best of my photos and add some captions.Read more
Traveler Eat a strudel for us!
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Traveler We now always think of you and Matt when we eat strudel.
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Traveler Strong current looks fun
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Traveler That’s what we talked to. We heard that some people commute to work this way we saw people going down with dry bags floating along with them so they could change clothes. Honestly it was not that warm to be doing this.
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Traveler Kurztrip nach München
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- Sep 6, 2024
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 537 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Au 48.127436, 11.58850248°7’39” N 11°35’19” E
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Wollten wir nicht nach München….
September 6 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Wenn man ohne Kinder reist, reist man viel spontaner….
War heute wirklich so. Eigentlich war der Plan, auf direktem Weg nach München zu fahren….
Nur dem war dann nicht so, zumindest nicht direkt … Während der Fahrt, sagte David zu mir, er schaue noch ob wir über Lindau fahren oder wo anderes durch. Mir kam in Sinn, dass mein Lieblingsohrring Shop ja auf Schloss Salem an einer Ausstellung ist und dies ist doch gar nicht seid weg von Lindau….
Planänderung, wir fahren also über Schloss Salem :-)
Danach gab es ein herrliches Mittagessen direkt am Bodensee mit Sicht auf Mainau und anschliessend ging es dann nach München.
Am Abend, gingen wir an die Vernissage der Gallery Binder mit dem Künstler Yigal Ozeri.Read more
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Traveler Enjoy 🙂🙃
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Traveler Schlossherr persönlich!
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Traveler Kein Stroh, kein Heu, wo bleibt der Tierschutz ?😭
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Traveler Big Ol Holiday
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- Jul 8, 2023
- ⛅ 29 °C
- Altitude: 539 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Kirchtrudering 48.132906, 11.66168348°7’58” N 11°39’42” E
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One perfect Prizza and life is changed
July 8, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Today we woke up and walked to a cafe for breakfast. It was really cute and nice to start our day with some good food. We then packed up our apartment and walked to the shopping district. We first went to the fancy shops to window shop, but there is a lovely stretch of water and trees. We then hit the regular people shops and Erin stopped to grab a few things.
We then jumped on the light rail and headed to a street known for its graffiti art. The light rail was packed and was a gazillion degrees. The street was beautiful and the art was varied. People are so talented, it blows my mind.
Next we headed back and grabbed some lunch and a beer, watched some more basketball then headed to the main train station. In a moment of panic, I was unsure I'd booked the right train but we got on and all was good. The train was over 5 hours to Munich but it gave us some time to listen to Speak Now Taylor's version and catch up on some F1 races. I also had some puzzle book time. It was a squishy journey and the train was so packed. We arrived in Munich and jumped on another train to get to the hotel. After a walk we arrived!
We headed to the restaurant in the hotel for dinner and I got a Brizza... Not knowing what it was. It turned out to be a pretzel based pizza. Honestly it felt like a spiritual moment, it was so delicious and different. I was truly happy. I don't know if I can ever try one again, as it was so perfect.
It was a long travel day but with lots of fun moments in between!Read more
Traveler Wow 🥰
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Traveler Germans love their compound words 😆
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Traveler I laughed so hard haha
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Traveler This 😍
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Avoiding the heat EU tour
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- Sep 21, 2023, 12:23 PM
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 520 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Ludwigsvorstadt Theresienwiese 48.133639, 11.55021748°8’1” N 11°33’1” E
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Oktoberfest 🥨
September 21, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Well the tent sleeping next to a party on a campground filled with a hundred people went about as well as you'd expect. We pulled ourselves out of bed and enjoyed the included breakfast and got ready to partake in a full day of Oktoberfest festivities.

We arrived and went straight to a beer tent and enjoyed some lunch. Phill got a Ochsenfertzensemmel (Pulled Ox sandwich) and Bec got a taster platter. After this we explored the very large grounds again before settling into another tent where we met some nice Germans, Italians and questionable Americans that kept trying to get us to sing with them.

The day progressed and a few more tents were visited and friends made. We ended the adventure with Phill getting his Wiener schnitzel and Bec getting her Apple strudel before making our way back to the campgrounds.

Seeya in Athens!

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Both: 22kRead more
Traveler Nothing like a Dirndl and Ledefhosen, to help you blend in.
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Traveler Dancing, or spotted a snake?
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Traveler Bec's shoe started rolling down the hill... don't ask me how
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Traveler Even John Denver was there !
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Traveler Europe
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- Jul 22, 2023, 9:37 PM
- 🌙 19 °C
- Altitude: 534 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Altstadt Sendlinger Tor 48.133931, 11.56686148°8’2” N 11°34’1” E
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Munich
July 22, 2023 in Germany ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Despite having a few days in Munich, most of our exploring was done either at night or in rain so there's not a lot of photos to share. There was also a lot of infrastructure and restoration work happening so a lot of potential photos were spoiled by scaffolding and worksites. Even so, we really enjoyed exploring old town and the city more broadly.Read more
Traveler Amazing carving
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Traveler That looks much earlier than that
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Traveler It's neo-gothic, which seeks to imitate early gothic stuff. Also sandstone oxidises here for some reason, which makes it look so old and dark.
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Traveler Time out!
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- Mar 1, 2024, 1:21 PM
- ☁️ 10 °C
- Altitude: 527 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Gärtnerplatz 48.134536, 11.58235348°8’4” N 11°34’56” E
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Guess this is it🛬
March 1 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
The very last step of my journey has been taken.
After 25h of flights and stop-overs without too much sleep (crying toddlers around me on both flights 😬) I safely landed in Munich.

I am writing this last entry with a bittersweet feeling of sadness about the end of my travels but also ecxitment about seeing my friends and family again. 🥲
I am extremely grateful for all the experiences, encounters and friendships I was able to make throughout these amazing 11 weeks. 🥰

They say every ending marks a new beginning...and I am already curious about what life will come up with next. 😊🥰🗺🧭

Soundtrack of the day:
Unwritten - My Ugly Clementine
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zdeX6LH8Pp7iCFm…Read more
Traveler Willkommen zurück 🥰
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Traveler Thank you for sharing your trip! Amazing places you have been!
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Traveler München
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- Jul 13, 2024, 12:47 PM
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 526 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Altstadt U-Bahn-/S-Bahn-Haltestelle Marienplatz 48.135155, 11.57225848°8’7” N 11°34’20” E
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Arriving in Munich
July 13 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
On Friday evening we took the night bus for 12 hours to Munich 😄 We spent the day walking around the city, drinking Bavarian beer with Brezels and enjoying the evening at a summer festival (Tollwood) which had many cute stalls, lots of food and entertainment! So far our impressions of Munich are great and we are excited to spent a long sunny week here - escaping the average weather in Amsterdam ☀️☀️✨Read more
Traveler 😋
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Traveler You’d like it here 😄
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Matze on tour Enjoying summer! Nice!
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Traveler Yes it’s lovely here ☺️ hope you’re enjoying summer too!
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Traveler Christmas Adventures 2024
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- Dec 8, 2024, 3:07 PM
- ☁️ 5 °C
- Altitude: 525 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Altstadt Viktualienmarkt 48.135297, 11.57554248°8’7” N 11°34’32” E
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Munich Krampus 1
December 8 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
After our morning wanders we headed on to our next stop - Munich! For another Krampus run, though this one was much different than last night. It was much more family friendly and interactive and there were a lot of laughs had (though I was standing next to a lady who was afraid of most of them and that was kind of fun).

They went by much slower so you could really see them and they interacted with a lot more people. More of them took people’s hats and things and played keep away until they gave them back to you with a hug. Lots of high fives and lots of them would just be walking then all of a sudden break into a run towards the crowd and scare people. It was a lot of fun, everyone had fun, but very different from last night. No smoke, no fire, no metal railings to keep them apart from the crowd.Read more
Traveler So many similar but different Krampus costumes. Especially the masks and horns. Do you know if each makes his/her own costume?
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Traveler I’m not sure if they do themselves. I know there are woodworkers who carve the masks (I think all our most are made of wood)
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Traveler Thanks!
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Traveler Christmas Adventures 2024
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- Dec 8, 2024, 3:44 PM
- 🌧 4 °C
- Altitude: 525 m
- Germany Free State of Bavaria Munich Altstadt Viktualienmarkt 48.135325, 11.57549748°8’7” N 11°34’32” E
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Munich Krampus Part 2 & Market
December 8 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 4 °C
Since we had a good spot near front and it was light and you could see them I have way more photos so I am doing 2 posts for Krampus. The costumes are really cool and I loved all the different bells and things.

After the Krampus run (this one was half as long as the one last night) it has started raining and we were going to go spy on the Christmas market, which we did, but it was WAY too chaotic with people so we didn’t stay long and headed back to our place.

Then we finally got Afghan food from the place here which is so freaking good! This was the place that we tried to go to on the way home from Croatia, but the weather was too bad to stop. Really every time we were even remotely close to Munich we would try and stop, but this is the first time we were able to (I used to get it every time I came to visit my friend when she lived here as it was our favorite!!). It was one of the main reasons I put Munich on the to stop list…and then found the other Krampus run so said for sure!

Today was a great day and I really enjoyed all of our Krampus adventures! Now it is on to just boring old Christmas markets ;)Read more
I love them! [Karen]
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Traveler The food looks good. What is it?
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Traveler A spinach dish, an eggplant dish, a potato dish, and then a bolani - dough with potato inside. So tasty!
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Traveler Sounds (and looks) yummy!
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