When we woke up and looked outside, it was a beautiful clear and sunny day, completely unlike yesterday. Within minutes, Gail and I made a quick decision........lets go up to the top of the Zugspitze. We did not have to re
turn the car to the Munich Hauptbahnhof (train station) until 4 PM. Since Munich was less than an hour ride away, we quickly ate our breakfast and headed off to Eibsee-Seilbahn station to get the first aerial cable car to the top of the Zugspitze. By 9 Am we were on our way up the mountain. Within 10 minutes, we were at the top of the Zugspitze (2963 meters above sea level - approx. 9,700 feet). This was the highest mountain peak we had been to on our entire trip throughout the Alps. It was totally amazing. As I had said in earlier posts on the blog, the view was something that cannot be described. One has to actually come here to appreci
ate it. The woman at the hotel was totally correct yesterday....... most of the walkways and paths up here were covered with fresh snow. Some of the workers at the top were shoveling the walkways! Gail and I spent a few hours up here, just walking around, looking at the ski slopes, taking photos and just totally appreciating where we were and what we were seeing. This was one of the places I was looking very forward to visiting on this trip, and after yesterday's weather, I was not sure we would make it...... so the fact that I was here today made it especially rewarding. After feeling "fulfilled" we decided to take the cog train down the mo
untain. This trip took about 35 minutes, was interesting, but most of the trip was within tunnels going down the mountain and was not as exciting as was the cable car going up earlier. Once we arrived at the base of the Zugspitze, we got into the car and were off to Munich by 12:30 PM. The drive up to Munich was rather uneventful and the scenery was rather "basic". We arrived at our hotel in plenty of time to unload the luggage and then 
drop off the car. We returned the car by 3 PM and took a leisurely walk back to the hotel. The reality of the trips conclusion was beginning to set in...... we no longer had the car....... but we were in Munich, Germany and it was time to enjoy the food and beer and celebrate that we had such a wonderful 4 weeks. We ate dinner and enjoyed a few beers at the Augustiner Bierhall along the pedestrian zone before checking out the area near the hotel. After a bit of walking, we came across the famous Hofbrauhaus of Munich. 
We were going to go in for one final beer of the day, but it was so smoked filled inside, that we decided to go back to the hotel for the night and come back tomorrow and sit at their outside beer garden for dinner and a liter or two of the famous Hofbrau Beer. After taking a few photos and listening to the Umm Pah Band we headed back to hotel for a bit of sleep.
2 comments:
Welcome Home! The blog was really fun to follow; it was nice to hear about some of the places we visited in 1982 and I saw in 1977.
I hope you kept careful track of all the different beers you had. Gail was drinking beer!?
Do you know how many kilometers you have made with your car?
It was really interesting to follow your trip.
Greetings from Switzerland
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