By car, Munich

We rented a car to drive from Munich along the aptly named Romantic Road to Oberammeragau, Hohenschwangau, and Garmisch- Partenkirchen. The drive was so nice. The roads were great – clearly marked.

What was unbelievable was that I was driving 120, 130, 140 kph and cars were flying by us like we were standing still. Anyway the views were wonderful – lots of green grass, mountains, cute houses, and cows.

I would definitely recommend driving to the castles and further. It made a nice break from trains and planes!

is fun in Germany, let it roll and bring it on. we startet in Hamburg and had a long trip south to the austrian border. and why not stop in Munich so we thought.
we had one of our breaks in Weissenburg, north of Munich. small town, amazing architecture and my first real bavaria beer and bavarian sausage, called weiswurst, with mustard, lots of sweet mustard. I think with out that mustard the sausage is actually tastless, no real flavour.
more later

especially during Oktoberfest it is the very best, to stay away with your private car from the centre of Munich, as you will have to share the streets with horse-carriages, drawn by 6 horses, like shown on my picture.
These horses are well trained to walk next to the car-trafic, and each horse will also be accompanied by an attendant, walking beside the horse, but sometimes things get out of hands....

These kind of transportations are made quite often, as a kind of advertisment for the breweries and also for the inns outside of Oktoberfest, and they will stop there for a while in front of the inn (like here in Schwantalerstrasse) and all the cars parked there cannot go out of their parking...

Munich taxis are pretty reliable so you don't have to worry about getting ripped off. The meters in the cream-colored Mercedes or BMWs start at 2.60 Euros and go up by about 1.20 Euros for each kilometer driven. You can hail a cab on the street or call for pickup, although there is a small extra charge for ordering a cab by phone.

This is the Renault Megane that we rented for the trip. Although it is a good handling car and fairly powerful for its size, it was very uncomfortable to sit in. That is unusual as most French cars are very good to the drivers. But if we put the car on a scale of 1-10, we would have to give it a 8. It took us from Munich, through Austria to Ferrara, Italy, to Croatia, through Slovenia, back to Austria and then Germany, lots of kilometers.

I found out that for paid parking in munich, you drove into a parking lot after punching for your ticket that shows when you arrive. do not leave the ticket in your car. take it with you. on the way out, of say a mall or even just public parking, there's a machine you stick your card into and pay there. then you can get in you car, go to the exit, stick the ticket in and it shows that you've paid and will then let you out.
i've never had to do it that way before. so thought this might be useful to post here!
happy traveling!

I don't know why but it seems I come across a strange car every time I'm in a new city!!! So, this time I had the pleasure to see my first limousine and, believe me, it was very very looooooong... :))

From mainland Europe I would recommend a car, there are some motorways around Munich!!!
If you are coming from somewhere else you will land at the Franz-Josef-Strauss Airport close to the city!
By tube, car or bus!