2020. Corona. Travelling is a different game. Yet our Fernweh acted up too often. So we arranged a train trip to Germany and Austria. Specifically to Leipzig in Saxony, several spots in Bavaria and returning home with ÖBB‘s Nightjet from Innsbruck in Tyrol to Brussels in Belgium.

Planning this 2020 Saxony, Bavaria and Tyrol Getaway was a bit stressful. Could we leave, could we proceed? In September 2020, there was no COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Only colour codes, travel requirements, registrations and many kinds of tracking. Face masks covering mouth and nose, obviously. 

We encountered many different coronavirus countermeasures, attitudes towards the pandemic and attitudes towards the countermeasures.

It was therefor and odd trip. But we did it, we enjoyed it.

Here are all the posts relating to this trip. 

1. The delicious German state secret: dining onboard Deutsche Bahn.
2. VIDEO | Leipzig Hauptbahnhof.
3. Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof.
4. EAST GERMANY | Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig’s GDR museum.
5. Hyperion Leipzig.
6. Leipzig.
7. By ICE from Leipzig to Nuremberg.
8. Nuremberg Transport Museum / DB Museum.
9. Novotel Nuremberg City Centre.
10. Documentation Center NS Party Rallying Grounds in Nuremberg.
11. Nuremberg’s Zeppelin Field with the Norisring.
12. Memorium Nuremberg Trials.
13. Nuremberg’s real-life Playmobil Imperial Castle.
14. You need at least two full days in Nuremberg.
15. DB Regio from Nuremberg to Regensburg.
16. Thurn und Taxis princely palace museum in Regensburg.
17. Eurostars Park Hotel Maximilian Regensburg.
18. Regensburg.
19. With Alex from Regensburg to Munich.
20. BMW Museum & BMW Welt in Munich.
21. Munich’s Olympiapark.
22. Sofitel Munich Bayerpost.
23. Deutsches Museum’s Verkehrszentrum or Transport Centre in Munich.
24. Deutsches Museum’s main site on Munich’s Museuminsel.
25. By train to Neuschwanstein.
26. Only 15 Minutes and No Photos in Schloss Neuschwanstein Castle.
27. Museum of the Bavarian Kings in Schwangau near Neuschwanstein.
28. Füssen in Bavaria, the gateway to Neuschwanstein.
29. Münchner Stadtmuseum – Munich City Museum.
30. MUNICH | Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum / Pinakothek der Moderne.
31. Five days and four nights in Munich, including Neuschwanstein.
32. By train to Lindau and Lake Constance.
33. Lindau at or in Lake Constance.
34. Hotel Bayerischer Hof Lindau.
35. Trainspotting at Lindau.
36. By train from Lindau to Garmisch-Partenkirchen via the Ausserfern railway.
37. Staying firmly on the ground in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
38. Mercure Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
39. Visiting Germany’s highest mountain, the Zugspitze.
40. Mountaineering in Germany part 2: The Alpspitz.
41. Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Innsbruck via Mittenwald on DB Regio.
42. Habsburg Schloss Ambras Castle in Innsbruck.
43. Ibis Innsbruck.
44. Imperial Palace Hofburg Innsbruck.
45. Ferdinandeum Tyrol State Museum in Innsbruck.
46. Innsbruck.
47. Nightjet Vienna/Innsbruck to Brussels, or how we got thrown off the train in Aachen.
48. More than, but also sausages: rich cuisine of Germany’s heartland Saxony, Franconia and Bavaria.
49. “No Photos!”.