Our European Vacation!

 I'm starting our blog with our European trip.  It's the 1st trip that I used a digital camera.  I really didn't start until 2005.  Pam bought me a little digital for Christmas.  It's a start of a new era.  The date that we left was 05/05/05.  Cool huh?  I had won tickets for British Airlines.  All I had to pay was about $350 for both of us.  When we got to the airport to check-in, they told us to come back at 4:00 & then they will know if were good or not.  It was a non-rev ticket.  We went back to the ticket counter they gave us the tickets, we thanked them & proceeded to the gate.  Pam asked for the tickets to see where we're sitting at $ was very surprised!  I asked her "what is it?"  She said these are $9,000 tickets!  They put us in Business class!  That's the photo you see 1st.

We flew into London & had to wait for 6 hours.  We flew into Munich.  We rented a car.  The layover wasn't to bad now cause there was a lot of construction on the autobahn around Munich & part way down to Garmisch.  By the time we got there the traffic wasn't that bad.  If we got there on time we would've had rush hour traffic which is murder in Germany.    The next day we took off exploring.  Here I am standing on the German-Austria border.

We went to Innsbruck to look around.  It was a Sunday so light traffic.  European do no drive much in town on a Sunday.  Before that we looked around Fussen which is close to the Ludwig castles.  The photo below is that town.

Innsbruck was a pretty city.  We looked at the buildings & window shopped.  If I was prepared I would've checked out the Olympic stuff that were available.  They had 2 Olympics in Innsbruck.  They have some of the stuff where you could ride. 

Below is the place were one of the Emperors lived when in town.  They had a band playing while people were drinking their beer, or tea.

We went to the  Neuhcwanstein Castle.  I've been there several times.  My 1st trip when I was stationed in Germany was here.  That was December of 1979.  Pam & I have been to his Linderhof Castle, that's why we chose this on, shes never been & we get to go together.

This is Part 1 of our European Vacation.