I had a week off between the language course and the start of my internship, and my family came up to visit me! The first couple days I showed them around Munich and we did some tours, one to the Dachau concentration camp (the first concentration camp during the war) and another tour to Scholss Neuschwanstein – the second time for me, but this time I did a bike tour, so we biked around the lake, and then did the tour inside the castle. After this we went to Salzburg, Austria for a few days and did a couple tours there as well. The first tour we did was the Sound of Music Tour, which was super cool and I highly recommend. It is kind of nice because much of the tour is in the car, travelling to the different (and beautiful!) places where scenes were shot, like to the gazebo (one of them), the abbey, the house and lake, the church, and the garden where they sing “Doe Ray Me”. We took a day to explore the fortress that sits at the top of the hill, and the last day we did a zipline tour through one of the gorges. All in all, the tours were pretty cool, and I highly recommend! Though maybe try to get a small group tour if you get the chance. Doing the tour rather than just going to visit the site created a much more meaningful experience because you get to learn about the history, hear cool anecdotes, and give meaning to everything you see, as opposed to looking at something and thinking, “cool, lets move on”.
I took several picture this time:
Germany 2015 