Ok, so technically speaking Bavaria isn’t a country even though they call themselves a Freistaat (free state) and never did sign the Grundgesetz (founding law) of Germany. Still, Sunday I went from Germany through Austria to Slovenia and Tuesday I headed via Austria to Switzerland. I am in the process of reentering Germany. What a whirlwind tour it had been. I definitely would like to take my hosts of the past couple of days by their word and come back for an extended vacation visit. I initially thought that their manager had invited me for two weeks because he really thought there was that much work. But now I think he really just was nice and wanted me to see their beautiful area and go up to some of the peaks.
“Gruezi!” As I was lying down last night in my 4 star train room, a Swiss came in. We had a good chat for 10 minutes, then we both retired to our beds and quickly fell asleep. I woke up a few times at night and more often then not the train was stopped (for an extended period of time). I have a feeling a regular moving train could have done the 10 hour journey in half the time, but then nobody would get the sleeping cars…
When I woke up in the morning and opened the blinds I could see snow covered mountain ranges atop meadows that went up on the mountain side with its farms. There really isn’t a better way of getting up, though I am not sure if I’d like to have a rolling bed every day.
So far the weather has been treating me extremely well. In Munich it was outstanding, in Slovenia I only got wet a little bit once and now it is a perfect day again.
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