After two years, we’re back in Europe. And I must say, it’s great to be back. A very long transit time (with an 8-hour Singapore stopover) saw us arrive in Frankfurt early morning.  A few hours to kill before the next leg of our journey gave us time for some vital sustenance – coffee, and lots of it. We had pre-booked our train tickets and I’m so glad we did. DB (Deutsche Bahn) allows you to pre-book tickets up to 3 months in advance of the travel date. By doing so, we managed to get our tickets for only about 1/3 of the normal buy-as-you-travel ticket – 29 EUR per person.  Our train journey took us from Frankfurt airport (there’s a train station at the airport) directly to Munich main train station, on an ICE train (Inter-City Express) – very nice to travel on, and thanks to the little screens at the end of each carriage, we got to watch the train’s speed top out at 300km/hr between Nuernberg and Munich. A short wait in Munich, then on to Prien am Chiemsee on a slightly slower train (and IC), where we’ve spent the past week.

Prien is a really lovely spot, and (in my opinion) a great base for exploring the south of Bavaria. Of course, I’m a little bias, having previously spent a bit of time there, but each time I go back I reinforce my opinion I’ll post more here about what we’ve been up to, as I get some time…