The Alps 2014 – Part 3: A Rainy Day in Munich

Back to Germany

Monday, 21.07.2014

This morning we were woken up more or less rudely by some bleating sheep on the neighbouring grasslands. Why can’t I be that fit and talkative in the mornings?

So we gather our belongings, have some breakfast and start towards the West since we slowly but surely have to head back home. The son is aware that there should be Europe’s longest zipline in Gröbming at Mount Stoderzinken and he absolutely wants to test it. I already become dizzy just by looking at it so I let him have a go and relax at the lower terminus while a shuttle bus  takes him some hundred meters up to the upper terminus.

Since the weather still looks unsteady we skip the climbing park next door and set off towards Germany around noon. We have hardly left Gröbming when it starts raining, so we decide to do a small detour to Munich. Should it still be raining tomorrow there are more things to do in bad weather in a metropolis than in the countryside. Not being able to find a suitable caravan site we head for Garmisch-Partenkirchen where there is a caravan site right behind the bottom station of the Wank Cable Car.

Munich Transport Museum

Tuesday, 22.07.2014

The day begins like the one yesterday ended, rainy. Thus we decide to take the train to Munich to do some sightseeing there. The train journey takes a good hour to reach the Bavarian capital and is quite cheap. It is shortly before eleven o’clock when we arrive in Munich so we head for a Weißwurstfrühstück (“white sausage” breakfast, a Bavarian speciality) to Schneider Bräuhaus in a road named “Tal”, the German word for “valley”.

After the delicious refreshment it soon starts to rain again. And what do you do as a tourist in Munich when it rains? Correct, you go to the German Museum. Unfortunately we are not the only ones to come up with this brilliant idea. Numerous school classes and nearly all tourists currently being in Munich seem to have made the same decision, resulting in a waiting time of more than one hour in front of the cashier!

For us that is way too crowded. Fortunately the museum flyer points out the German Transport Museum which indeed proves to be much emptier. There we have a look at cars and trains from the last century. A museum worth visiting with a good variety of traffic history exhibits.

In the early afternoon we head back for Garmisch. On the train we are best entertained by a child who has just got the “Book of Useless Knowledge” and is now spreading useless knowledge across the train- much to his parents’ chagrin. :O

Home in the Didimobile we cook some delicious Sausage Goulash with vanagon noodles every participant of the Grossglockner VW bus convention had received as a present.