Today our plan was to leave early for
Garmisch-
Partenkirchen, check into the hotel and take the cog-train and cable car up to the top of the
Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany (in the Bavarian Alps). When we left the hotel at approximately 9:30 AM, the weather was rather nasty, totally overcast, with many clouds and light rain. This was rather disappointing for us,
because being on a fixed daily schedule we knew if the weather was not really suitable to go way up into the mountains, which were totally surrounded by clouds, we might not get our chance to get to the top of the
Zugspitze. We arrived before noon in
Garmisch-
Partenkirchen and checked into our hotel. The woman at the hotel told us it was currently snowing on the top of the
Zugspitze and the temperature was below zero degrees
centegrade.......and definitely not a day to go up the mountain ...... we would freeze up there and not see anything. She suggested that as an alternative we take a ride to Ludwig II summer palace at
Linderhof. Due to the circumstances of the weather, we took her suggestion......unpacked the car and headed for
Schloss Linderhof which was only about 1/2
hour car ride. We walked around the grounds of
Linderhof, which was quite amazing and reminded us of
Peterhof (in St.
Petersburg, Russia), the summer palace of Peter the Great, which we visited
last summer. After taking many photos (as usual), we headed back to
Garmisch. We walked around the town of for awhile, and had a very relaxing dinner in a fine restaurant. The day turned out to be a pleasant day overall, but we were still disappointed we did not make it up the
Zugspitze.
because being on a fixed daily schedule we knew if the weather was not really suitable to go way up into the mountains, which were totally surrounded by clouds, we might not get our chance to get to the top of the Zugspitze. We arrived before noon in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and checked into our hotel. The woman at the hotel told us it was currently snowing on the top of the Zugspitze and the temperature was below zero degrees centegrade.......and definitely not a day to go up the mountain ...... we would freeze up there and not see anything. She suggested that as an alternative we take a ride to Ludwig II summer palace at Linderhof. Due to the circumstances of the weather, we took her suggestion......unpacked the car and headed for Schloss Linderhof which was only about 1/2 
hour car ride. We walked around the grounds of Linderhof, which was quite amazing and reminded us of Peterhof (in St. Petersburg, Russia), the summer palace of Peter the Great, which we visited 
last summer. After taking many photos (as usual), we headed back to Garmisch. We walked around the town of for awhile, and had a very relaxing dinner in a fine restaurant. The day turned out to be a pleasant day overall, but we were still disappointed we did not make it up the Zugspitze.
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