Beautiful ride. It was actually very sunny most of the ride. The roads were fantastic. I rode to Austria and back. Great ride.
The kids really enjoyed the swings, teeter-totter, and goats at the place we were staying in Southern Germany.
We really enjoyed staying at the place we did in Southern Germany.
Brecken, Ian, and I ate at the famous Hoffbrauhaus, while the rest ate at the Hard Rock Cafe across the street. I'm glad we choose the Hoffbauhaus. The food was great, and the atmosphere was all Germany.
The stein in this window was almost as tall as Ian. 6-4-10 Friday
Great Ride, finally sunny & Munich. Went on a great ride this morning. It was finally sunny. I rode to Austria and back. It was only just under 40 miles total and took a little more than 2 hours. There isn’t much flat road around here, and it’s hard starting the ride, as you coast down the hill, don’t get a chance to warm up at all, and have to climb up about a 10% grade for about ¼ mile. I had to stop and keep taking pictures as it was so beautiful. I feel like I’ve died and gone to cycling heaven. No stop lights, very little traffic, beautiful scenery, and no big trucks that red-necks gun as they blow past you with 6” to spare. Every day I try and take a different route, and stumble across some little village a cluster of chalets, or a farmer taking his cows across the street.
The farmhouse we are staying at has a swing set, and teeter toter in front and the kids were playing as we waiting to leave. We’ve kind of settled into a bit of a routine. Typically I got for a ride in the morning, when I get back, hopefully some of the kids have had showers and are getting ready. We finally leave the house about noon if we are lucky. But I find that after going out for a few hours to see things they kids have had about all they can take for the day, so we head home for dinner. Today we went to Munich. It was a little over an hour’s drive, but then took a little while to find a place to park. It was pretty busy and felt like there were a ton of people there. I found this company that does free city tours in Munich, London, 3 different tours in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam. We decided to give it a try. They make their money primarily on tips and then selling the other tours that they do. For instance they do a tour to Neuschwanstein castle. The tour we did had about 50 people total on it, although we made up 8 of that group. We told them we might not make it the full 3 hour tour. It was very interesting, and taking the tour gave us a lot of insight into the sights we were seeing and made them much more exciting. He told about how Hitler started his “revolution” in Munich, but then was arrested and sent to prison for treason. Seeing the sights and being told a lot more of the storey brought out a lot of the history. Towards the end of the tour the kids were getting really hungry, so at the Hofbrauhaus we decided to ditch the tour. Kindra didn’t like the idea of eating at the Hofbrauhaus as she thought it would just be a rowdy drinking hall with a bunch of drunks. Munich is kind of known for it’s drinking and partying. This wasn’t helped by the fact that a group of very drunk guys probably in their 20’s staggered in front of us and 2 of them basically passed out in front of us, and the rest of the group were just making fun of them. Kindra decided to go eat at the Hard Rock café across the street from the Hofbauhaus, and everyone decided to join her except for Brecken, Ian, and me. We went to the Hofbrauhaus, and I’m glad we did. True a lot of the people there were drinking, but there were also a lot of families, it was pretty noisy with lots of atmosphere, and the food we had was great. I had a pork knuckle with dumplings, Brecken had a kind of mushroom soup with mushroom dumplings, and Ian had a plate with different sausages on it, then we all had apple studel for dessert. There was a band playing, the food was great, and the atmosphere seemed very authentic. Lots of fun.
Great Ride, finally sunny & Munich. Went on a great ride this morning. It was finally sunny. I rode to Austria and back. It was only just under 40 miles total and took a little more than 2 hours. There isn’t much flat road around here, and it’s hard starting the ride, as you coast down the hill, don’t get a chance to warm up at all, and have to climb up about a 10% grade for about ¼ mile. I had to stop and keep taking pictures as it was so beautiful. I feel like I’ve died and gone to cycling heaven. No stop lights, very little traffic, beautiful scenery, and no big trucks that red-necks gun as they blow past you with 6” to spare. Every day I try and take a different route, and stumble across some little village a cluster of chalets, or a farmer taking his cows across the street.
The farmhouse we are staying at has a swing set, and teeter toter in front and the kids were playing as we waiting to leave. We’ve kind of settled into a bit of a routine. Typically I got for a ride in the morning, when I get back, hopefully some of the kids have had showers and are getting ready. We finally leave the house about noon if we are lucky. But I find that after going out for a few hours to see things they kids have had about all they can take for the day, so we head home for dinner. Today we went to Munich. It was a little over an hour’s drive, but then took a little while to find a place to park. It was pretty busy and felt like there were a ton of people there. I found this company that does free city tours in Munich, London, 3 different tours in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam. We decided to give it a try. They make their money primarily on tips and then selling the other tours that they do. For instance they do a tour to Neuschwanstein castle. The tour we did had about 50 people total on it, although we made up 8 of that group. We told them we might not make it the full 3 hour tour. It was very interesting, and taking the tour gave us a lot of insight into the sights we were seeing and made them much more exciting. He told about how Hitler started his “revolution” in Munich, but then was arrested and sent to prison for treason. Seeing the sights and being told a lot more of the storey brought out a lot of the history. Towards the end of the tour the kids were getting really hungry, so at the Hofbrauhaus we decided to ditch the tour. Kindra didn’t like the idea of eating at the Hofbrauhaus as she thought it would just be a rowdy drinking hall with a bunch of drunks. Munich is kind of known for it’s drinking and partying. This wasn’t helped by the fact that a group of very drunk guys probably in their 20’s staggered in front of us and 2 of them basically passed out in front of us, and the rest of the group were just making fun of them. Kindra decided to go eat at the Hard Rock café across the street from the Hofbauhaus, and everyone decided to join her except for Brecken, Ian, and me. We went to the Hofbrauhaus, and I’m glad we did. True a lot of the people there were drinking, but there were also a lot of families, it was pretty noisy with lots of atmosphere, and the food we had was great. I had a pork knuckle with dumplings, Brecken had a kind of mushroom soup with mushroom dumplings, and Ian had a plate with different sausages on it, then we all had apple studel for dessert. There was a band playing, the food was great, and the atmosphere seemed very authentic. Lots of fun.
Hey Adam,
ReplyDeleteBack in 2003 my family and I were on this very bridge overlooking the Neuschwanstein Castle. That day it was pretty rainy and cold, but the castle tour was awesome. We also had a great time (as i'm sure you guys did) in Fussen.
Looks like a great time.
Schoony