The Amateur Traveler talks to Jason and Janie about their trip to Bavaria and Southern Germany. Jason and Janie had perviously been on the Amateur Traveler on Travel to Barbados - Episode 109. The talk about visiting the Black Forest with its wineries, Geramany’s
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tallest waterfall and the world’s largest cuckoo clock. They also visited the walled city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Rothenburg (which may have been spared the ravages of the 30 years war by a hard drinking mayor) is the home to a wonderful Christmas market as well as a Christmas museum. The Rothenburg Nightwatchman’s tour is also something you should try. Jason and Jamie also went to Nurenburg with its wonderful market place and saw “Mad” King Ludwig’s castle Neuschwanstein. The finished the trip in the home of very large beer steins at Munich. In Munich they enjoyed the glockenspiel, the toy museum and some of the wonderful old churches.
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Show Notes
Jason and Janie’s pictures
Bavaria, Germany
Munich, Germany
Black Forest
Triberg, World’s Biggest Cuckoo Clock
Nuremberg Trials
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Neuschwanstein Castle
Ludwig II of Bavaria the “mad” king of Bavaria
Kristallnacht - the Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany
The Tent - Munich’s giant tent hostel
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