see also:

• Berlin, Germany
• Frankfurt, Germany
• Prague

• city in southern Germany which gives good access to Salzburg and Bavaria

• Landshuter Hochzeit 1475
  • medieval Bavarian landscape wedding festival on 4 weekends of 30th June to 23rd July 2017
• Sylvensteinstausee lovely S curve bridge but you will need to scramble up a steep slope through forest to get the view and need a torch for sunset ¹⁾
• sunrise fog Geroldsee lake in Upper Bavaria ²⁾
• fog over lake at Hintersee 2k west of Ramsau in the Berchtesgaden area ³⁾
• Linderhof Palace - Ettal
• Neuschwanstein Castle
• Pilgrimage Church Maria Gern way up in the alps ⁴⁾:
  • for images see http://www.fotocommunity.de/photos/maria%20gern

Bamberg

St. Bartholomew’s Church - Berchtesgaden

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

• Frankfurt, Germany to Munich via Nuremberg = 392km, 3h 42m
  • Dachau is near Munich = 28km, 30 min from Munich
  • the Romantic Road (Romantische Strasse) a beautiful 5 day 360km country drive usually starting in Fussen, 130km SW of Munich (can be started at Wurzburg if traveling from Frankfurt to Munich):
    • Fussen: one of the oldest settlements on the north side of the Alps
    • 1st 40km runs parallel with the jagged limestone peaks through hilly rural countryside
    • monastery village of Rottenbuch
    • historic Landsberg - worth an overnight stay and a night walk through the medieval city
    • Augsburg - catch a free classical concert in the magnificent Golden Hall in Augsburg's city hall
    • Harburg's castle
    • Nordlingen
    • Dinkelsbuhl
    • Rothenburg ob der Tauber - home of a popular Christian museum
    • road winds through Tauber Valley clad with vineyards
    • Bad Mergentheim
    • Wurzburg - a magnificent city, much destroyed in WWII but much has survived, palace of Residenz. the Alte Mainbrucke historic bridge, the dramatic fortress of Marienberg
• Munich to Salzburg = 145km, 1.5h
• Salzburg to Vienna = 295km, 2h 45m
• Vienna to Cesky Krumlov = 200km, 2h 55m
• Cesky Krumlov to Prague = 171km, 2h 11m