Early morning saw us leaving Catania. The streets were almost empty except for the cars parked everywhere to the point that a car could barely squeeze through a two way street. We flew into Frankfurt on RyanAir. It took quite a while to get our bags. It was grey, cool and drizzly outside. The German autobahns have no speed limit. John was doing 140 Km per hour in the …
We had barely scratched the surface of seeing Munich so we cancelled our tickets to Neuschwanstein Castle ( which is a two hour train ride each way). The day was sunny but cool. We got to the train station just in time to see our train leave. We seem to always just miss our train going in to Munich. We went immediately to Marienplatz where we watched the Glockenspiel …
It poured rain all night and was still dull and rainy in the morning. Thank goodness there are beer tents. I decided to take the big feather out of my Octoberfest hat because of the rain. It was also suggested by Graham and John that I take off the mini tin tart foil that I had replaced a lost button with at an Octoberfest celebration in the 80s. It …
The three and a half hour flight from Iceland to Munich was uneventful….I slept and slept deeply. The only time I woke was when the lady beside me poked me so that she could go to the washroom. I got the impression that she had been poking for some time. We took the train from the airport to the main train station where we stored our luggage and waited …