Day 9, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

We’re literally greeted with this amazing view when we stepped out of our room for breakfast! What a very pleasant surprise! It must have snowed overnight….

For us who are from a tropical island, this is definitely not a common experience.
Nice breakfast, great ambience and wonderful view.
And the lady chef said it’s actually kind of early to be snowing that much at that time of the year.

After a super enjoyable breakfast, we went for a short walk just outside the hotel.

Back at Quartier…

We reached Munich past noon and after a quick stop back at our hotel, we went for lunch and coffee. And did some last minute shopping on our last evening in Europe.

It was a great, great winter holiday. Feeling truly satisfied and thankful especially during this pandemic time.

Well, I must say these fabulous experiences and fond memories are enough to make up for this lengthy period of no travels 💕

Day 8, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

It’s another early morning, left hotel just before 7am to catch the 7.32am train to Garmisch-Partenkirchen for a 2D1N stayover. So for that night, we double booked accommodation for ourselves – our room in Munich (so we didn’t need to pack/move our luggage) and a room in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Ginger bread we bought from the Christmas Market

Enjoying the marvellous scenery during the 1h20m train ride.

Collected the KLOOK cable car / cogwheel train tickets (which we purchased the day before we left for our Europe holiday) at Zugspitzbahnhof Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It’s a very short walk from Garmisch-Partenkirchen train station to Zugspitzbahnhof, contrary to what we read on google map.

On the cogwheel train, going up to Zugspitze

First stop upon arrival ~ Sonn Alpin 2600m.
Hot soup as light lunch to warm our body.

Lunch at Panorama Lounge 2962, at the top of Germany @3,000m above sea level. We liked the view so much that we stayed there for a good 2 hours.

We’re at the Summit!

Back to Zugspitze station and walking to the hotel

Nice view of the Bavarian alps along the corridor, just in front of our room.

Quartier – lodges

Shortly after checking in, we went for a walk in the vicinity

Day 7, Munich

After clocking a 16-hour day trip the previous day, we just wanted to chillax. It helped that it was a Sunday, meaning I could not even shop as most retail outlets were not opened.

Woke up late and had a leisurely breakfast.

Headed out just before noon and had a slow walk to Marienplatz

Even the Christmas Market was not opened on Sunday.

Mucki & Floyd – Coffee break 1

Aroma Kaffeebar – Coffee break 2.
And we bought a pair of coffee cups for our homecafe.

Enjoyed roaming the Munich streets aimlessly between the cafe visits

Early dinner at the famous Haxnbauer.

Browsing at the Marienplatz Christmas Market again before ending the night.
Bought the next day’s breakfast and had a strudel. He had a hotdog bun too!

Day 5, Munich

After walking for more than 17km in Paris city on the last day in Paris, we returned to the hotel with utter contentment and exhaustion. Minutes before we reached hotel, we received an email from Air France informing that our Paris-Munich flight the next morning (10.25am) was cancelled. But they had scheduled another flight itinerary to bring us to Munich (Paris-Geneva-Munich).

As our flight was at 7am, we had to leave hotel at 4am.
Except for 1 front desk staff, the hotel lobby was totally empty. Were we the only 2 affected by the strike? 🤔

It was during situation like this that we really appreciated our eventual decision of staying in a good hotel (including services & location) instead of the original intention of booking an airbnb apartment.

The hotel arranged a taxi to send us to airport and we paid €65 for the very smooth ride. It’s pretty expensive but definitely worth it (not that we had other transport mode choices at 4am).

We’re mentally prepared for a chaotic situation at Charles de Gaulle airport due to the flight cancellations & changes. But no, it’s very calm everywhere. There’s a queue at the check-in counter but it’s a normal one (about 5-6 travellers ahead of us). The boarding area was in quite a state of commotion though as some passengers’ boarding pass could not be scanned (including hubz) and there’re passengers who came for the wrong flight (boarding gate was changed at the last minute).

Apparently some of our seats were messed up. It took 1 passenger to realise that his seat was taken by someone else which led to the “ultimate discovery”. Ended up 7-8 of us were all occupying one another’s seats and none of us (except for the first one) realised it. But we all took it very well and had a good laugh over it 😄 Guess we’re all just thankful that we’re able to carry on with our journey despite the massive strike nationwide.

After much hassles of trying to find our connecting flight at Geneva airport, we’re finally ready for the Munich-bound flight.

Had a walk at Marienplatz Christmas Market.
Totally love the very festive vibes

This ended our first day in Munich 💕

CB Flowers

Have always been into plants and flowers. Besides the regular visits to nursery for plants shopping, I would buy fresh cut flowers every other week as I like our home to be decorated with plants & flowers and filled with floral scents.

So going through circuit breaker period would mean no flowers for at least a couple of months. So at the start of CB, in early April, made an online order of 2 floral arrangements and was very happy with what were delivered.