germany

We’d spent a few weeks rambling around Germany in 2017, so weighing up our options for the festive period we decided to bunker down in Bavaria for the Christmas week, and invited my parents to fly from the UK to join Jack, Jon and I for a family ensemble. We rented a lovely house for a week in Tutzing which is about an hour from Munich and tucked into pork, pork and more pork, and a fairly large selection of alcoholic beverages. In between courses we visited mad King Ludwig II’s Linderhof Palace and his famous and somewhat ostentatious Neuschwanstein Castle, Disney’s inspiration for the castle in Sleeping Beauty. The wonderfully named Restaurant Pfaffenwinkel was a great spot for dinner, as well as numerous BrauHofs in Munich and mulled wine at the Weihnachtsmarkts (Christmas Markets). Vielen Dank an Deutschland für ein schönes Weihnachtsfest!

Visited December 2019. See also our 2017 Berlin to Vienna itinerary.