Barb and Baden’s Excellent German Adventure – Part 1
It’s been 10 months in the planning stages but the big day has finally arrived. In less that 6 hours Barb and I will be heading off to the airport on our next excellent adventure to Germany.
When we went on our last big trip (to the South Pacific), we started a tradition of sending out electronic versions of postcards to friends and family as we progressed through our trip. At each major stop we were able to find an Internet cafe an send these updates.
Our trip begins in Berlin and we will spend about 5 days there and Barb’s father has already flown out there and will be spending this week with us. While Barb’s dad lives in Toronto, he is from Berlin and knows the city quite well and has offered to act as our guide.
From Berlin we will go down to Munich for 4 days. The highlight of the Munich stay is of course the BMW factory tour that we have arranged.
From Munich, we have rented a car and we will drive to Füssen and use that as a base to explore the southern alps area.
Our trip will then bring us all the way to the north of Germany to a town called Flensburg where we will stay with Barb’s uncle and family for 5 days at Christmas.
From Flensburg we will travel down to the spa town of Baden-Baden for 2 days of luxurious treatment in their finest spas.
Our last stop will be in Frankfurt where we will spend about 4 days and new years. We will be staying with our friend Anette whom we met two years ago in the Cook Islands. She has offered to show us “a real German new years” celebration. I’m not sure what this means but no doubt it involves lots of good German beer.
From Frankfurt we fly home on January 2nd.
So hopefully my next update will be in a few days from Berlin. My only request to everyone is that they do not reply back to these emails as I don’t want to start having two way conversations on email. I will be more than happy to do so after we get back.
Auf Wiedersehen,
Barb and Baden
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