Long weekend

A month or so ago when I started seriously planning a summer trip it became clear that it would be very difficult to include Neuschwanstein castle as we had promised the girls. Since we punted plans of going to Turkey over Easter vacation a small getaway to Munich seemed sort of reasonable. So here we are. It is about a four hour train ride from Zurich. That sounds horrible, and it did seem long, but lots of the places I write about take a while to get to. Luzern and Frick, which we went to last week, are each an hour and a half one-way.

The first thing we did was visit a toy shop near the train station. It seemed to have a bit of everything. The ground floor isn't very big, but the basement is huge. Then, because the weather was so nice, we walked a mile or so through the main tourist drag to our hotel. There were at least a dozen produce stands along the way, all selling nothing but white asparagus and strawberries.

We also passed a bakery selling these adorable Easter petit fours, which we couldn't resist. The yellow ones weren't lemon like we expected. Instead they had a mild alcohol flavor. That made L happy! If you remember my carrot market post, you know that L loves a booze cake!