What we REALLY do on the Weekends living in MUNICH! Sharing Hidden Gems in Bavaria, Germany
It's no secret that we film plenty of videos around Bavaria, but what do we do weekends when we are not filming? If you've ever wondered, join us today for one of our favourite hikes to (what we believe to be) Germany's. Along the way we'll explore some medieval castle ruins, hike to a mountain top church, try a new food, walk from village to village, and finally show you our favourite cake!
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Intro: 0:00-1:13
Logistics 1:14-1:50
Flintsbach 1:51-4:19
Falkenstein Castle Ruins 4:20-7:11
Hiking 7:12-9:00
Food at Petersberg 9:01-12:25
Hiking to Brannenburg 12:26-17:48
Brannenburg 17:49-18:30
Unhinged Graveyard Review 18:31-19:41
Best Cake 19:42-22:10
Flower Picking 22:11-22:56
Conclusion 22:57-24:15
Fall hikes, some of the best. This video is exactly what we like to do on our travels. Used your Mittenwald and Salzburg videos to plan and enjoy our visit to Germany in August for 3 weeks. Hey, we used most of your playlist from Bavaria! Keep up the excellent content and you do deserve to have at least 100K subscribers or more.
Thank you so much! Glad you have found our videos helpful! 🥰🥰🥰
We are Lederhosers from Canada, only discovered Bavaria a few years ago and we are HOOKED. Your speed is exactly what we love. Thanks for all your videos! We’re coming back probably next year and we’ll definitely be hitting you up for a facetime consult. 👍
Thanks so much! We are looking forward to it!
Great! I'll be there next month and I'm so excited. Thank you for your Sunday videos.
:D Thanks for watching
Really enjoyed that video. I lived in Waltrudering (East of Munich) as a kid in 1970-75. I remember early Fall hikes were my favorites and now I really enjoy the area around Schliersee followed by a nice slice of Prinzregenten Torte. Really miss Bavaria. How are you finding the cost of living in Munich after five years? Seems rents are just skyrocketing. Schöne Grüße aus Texas.
We love Schliersee! This really is the best time to hike! Rent here is ridiculous unfortunately.
Many thx for presenting the village i grew up so nicely!
:)
My daughter and I were in Fussen for a week the first part of Sept. saw the castles, did a couple of bike rides. It was a great trip but I feel like we missed so much. It’s so beautiful in that area and there’s so much to do! We learned some great lessons about travel and suitcases! And yes, the train system is amazing and really so easy to use. Next time though, I need to figure out the train passes because it can get expensive. That cake looks so yummy!
Yes there is so much to do, especially if you like outdoorsy activities. :) Hope you can make it back.
That cake looked amazing!
It's sooo good. ;)
It's content like this I love your channel for!
Thank you so much!
Great video - you certainly earned the beer and cake with those hikes!
:) Hiking food always tastes better!
Love your videos but would like to suggest you try Café Winklstüberl in Fischbachau! Simply amazing! Cake pieces are huge, prices are amazing and the best one in my opinion is the Bayerischer Creme cake! This suggestion comes from us, an American family, who has lived in Bavaria for a total of 17 years. Enjoy!!
We haven't been to Fischbachau yet! Will do! Thanks so much
@@NearFromHome that's two recommendations to Café Winklstüberl -- must be the bomb ...
Look at the pictures and reviews on google maps! It's insane! @@gavinrogers5246
Full disclosure- I did not know how to tip my favorite KZheadrs until this morning when I watched a “how to” video! lol 😂 So this tip is for all the awesome videos that you both do an incredible job on! Thank you so much for helping us plan our trip, both through the videos and the consultation! We’ll let you know when we’re on the “most beautiful road” Love you guys and have a great week!
Thank you SO much. We really appreciate it. :D We look forward to hearing back about you trip. I am confident it will be great.
We're moving to Munich from the US in the next few months and this is the exact kind of content I'm looking for! Thank you for sharing this experience. Loving your channel!
Thanks so much! Glad you found it helpful. We have plenty more videos like this!
Welcome to Germany
Lovely share,the castle ruin is really worth the hike.I feel that the view is the icing on the cake(not your cake lol)really worth the effort to get up there. Really appreciate the share and I'm looking forward to future videos and to enjoy your adventures through your lenses. Greetings from Switzerland
Thanks so much for watching! The view is really great! We will keep the videos coming!
Hi guys! Recently discovered your channel while doing research for our upcoming vacation in Germany. And my goodness! the quality of your videos is top notch - both presentation and videography wise. Love you both😊
That you so much! We really try to make them high quality, so that means a lot. Good luck with your trip!
Great vid, especially the: bunny, CATS, cute little smooching, beautiful pastures and houses, etc. I really appreciate the walking map of your hiking route, and tips about the fork, steepness, landmarks off in the distance and such. However, I do ask again for a simple, quick "map" or Birds Eye "path" of Munich to Flintsbach (ideally around the 1:30 mark) just so that i can look in the right area of Bavaria and follow along; I assumed it was due south of Munich, near Mittenwald for example, before i finally gave up and actually typed "Flintsbach" into the search field, such a bother! ;) Thanks as always!
Thanks for watching. It did take us 2 hours to make that map in Adobe After Effects, so I think we would have to start making a LOT more money to make 2 maps in one video worth it. ;) Thanks for watching!
This is my ideal day-trip! Thanks for bucking the algorithm and sharing this content
Thanks so much! We really work hard to show our viewers places like this that don't do great with the algorithm.
Hey guys I am from Israel as you know we have war now And this amazing video helps me to relax and hope for better times. By the way I visited kufstein 2 years ago super cool town
Thanks so much glad to be there for you!
Love this type of video! And both of those cakes looked soooo good
Thanks so much! :)
Great Video as always. What I love about your channel is that you use public transport like Trains to get get to your destinations which is really helpful for folks like me who can’t drive. I live in Holzkirchen so this is quite near to me and I’d be definitely doing this trip. Thank you and keep exploring!
Thanks so much! We thinks it's really important to highlight the excellent public transit! Holzkirchen is cute!
Masterfully filmed and edited upload! Bravo guys, this is amazing presentation!
Thanks so much :)
Hi guys, superb video great to see what you get upto at the weekends! Love you can see where you are heading from that lovely little train station! Very pretty walk, fab castle ruins! Gorgeous climb and always thankful of a bench! Wow great views, well worth the hike up especially rewarded with good food and local beers! Brannenburg looks lovely! Wow that cake looks yummy 😋 have a great week ahead! Nick and Jill 👍❤️
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks so much for watching!
Graveyard reviews are 🔥💯
Hahah thank you.
Cool castle. Strange, I didn't know about it. Since I'm also living in Munich for 5 years and hike pretty often. I can suggest you another magical place: Ahornboden. This is in Tirol Austria, but it is just 150km from Munich. Now it is a bit too late to go there. Usually people visit it in mid of October.
We also didn't know about it. It was kind of a surprise the first time we hiked to Petersberg. With a name like Ahornboden, we ave to go!
Excellent video!
Thanks so much!
more content like this will be great! Will be in Munich for a few days next summer (along with Freising and Fussen).
We will try. Thanks for watching!
You can also hire them for a consult!
:)@@gavinrogers5246
It was nice to see you having some personal fun time! So much to see in Bayern. And eat , as well!
Thanks so much!
Thanks!
Thanks so much! We really appreciate it!
One of my favorite videos of yours! One question though. Why do you keep doing my childhood? I've probably been up Petersberg five times or so growing up on volksmarches. Makes me want to get right back on a plane and go home again (it's not like my daughter keeps pushing me to do so anyway). Thanks again!
That so weird! hahah Thanks for watching
The Zupfkuchen actually looked very good and fluffy, but Germany's best cake? Hm, I would be surprised if it were even better than the one from Winklstüberl in Fischbachau (especially the Bayerische Vanilletorte 😋). You shouldn't miss the gigantic collection of historic coffee grinders there either. And the advantage: you can take the public bus right to the door! 😄
You are the second person to recommend this place! I have starred it on google maps. Looks like it has 6,000 reviews, which is insane for a village! :O
What an awesome day trip! Can't wait to try it out. Your videos are always top-notch!
Thanks so much!
Shared guys. Loving the content
That’s what I’m looking for!!!! Glad to have you with us :)
Loved the video. Good job. How many kms did you end up walking for the day?
Around 10k!
Amazing video! What was the soup that you had?
Hahah I knew someone would ask. I can't remember, and I can't find the menu online.
Flädle soup, called Fretatten soup in Austria. It's broth with pancake strips. Particularly popular in Baden-Württemberg.
I really enjoy the content on this channel and how you guys are "slow travelers." However.......toning down the commercial ad voice would really be helpful. Keep up the great work and the graveyard reviews (hilarious).
Well…..I’ve got bad news…..if what you are calling the commercial ad voice is what I think it is then this video was already a serious attempt to meter and use it less than we usually do. If this didn’t do it for you, then idk man I’m giving it all I’ve got. We are constantly striving to improve video after video, but the time and effort to reward ratio is pretty damn low, lol. The perspective I come from though too is that ultimately, this isn’t a vlog, this isn’t just us chilling and going on a trip together. This is me being a guide, including logistics, and walking you through everything you need to know to go on a better vacation. It’s less entertainment-y than a lot of other channels, but to me that’s our differentiator. Frankly, 90% of the travel channels out there don’t give a damn about you the audience or your future travel plans. They want a more, easy, come with us and let’s see what happens approach. Focussing on “their” trips and “their” experiences. Which is fine, no hate, it just isn’t at all what I’m interested in doing. I don’t view this channel as “about” me so much as that I am a conduit to share the knowledge gained from our experiences. Emphasising knowledge over raw experience. Is it possible to do both at the same time? To entertain purely while also educating? I’m not sure. This video tried to do that. But ultimately I’m reticent to give up the presenter style completely because like I said, I view that as one of the things that makes us a little different than most of the faffing about on holiday travel channels. -- if you are referencing my level of enthusiasm though, that’s genuine and literally can’t be removed. I am that insufferable all the time, lol.
I love how detailed your vlogs are and appreciate all that went into it. I'm trying to be nice and say yes it's the enthusiasm that comes off as a sales pitch. For folks chilling at home it's a bit much. I really like your channel. We went to Monteriggioni bc of your video and were looking for the rest of your walking tour. @@NearFromHome
Ah damn. I thought you meant something else. Nothing I can do about the enthusiasm though, that very well might be the most genuine part of the whole video. The least scripted or rehearsed. Which in a way, it is a sales pitch after all. I don’t film duds, if a trip is worth going on then the video gets edited and released. We’ve shot plenty of videos that will never see the light of day because I just didn’t believe they were worth anyone’s previous time. If I release it, it’s because I enthusiastically believe you should go.
Im a local and i just skipped through your videos. You have been to a lot of places but some you closely missed. This might be some suggestions. 1) Osterseen (Easter Lakes) - These are really beautiful lakes about 5km south of Starnbergersee. Thats about half way to Garmisch from Munich. You can go there by the train to Garmisch or the S-Bahn to Tutzing and then swap train and in 15 minutes you are there. Then walk like 15 minutes. 2) Seems you have been to Alpsee in Immenstadt i believe. Thats the train to Lindau. In Immestadt you can swap the train and go to Oberstdorf. Thats in a valley surrounded by big mountains. Its massive. Really beautiful mountains. 3) Since you already took the train to Immenstadt, why not continue to Lindau in the same train. If you havent been there you will regret it. Lindau is a old town on an island in lake constance and really beautiful. You can also take boat rides there to all the cities on the lake. Closest to Lindau is Bregenz and there is a mountain with a cable car from which you have an insane view. There is also a city called Konstanz and this one is really old. It didnt get bombed in WW2 because its on the swiss border so there are really old buildings. But Lake Constance (Bodensee) is huge. If you want to see everything it takes you more than a week. A daytrip farther than Lindau or Bregenz i wouldnt suggest. But you can camp in a tent on the shores in lindau if you dont want to go to a hotel. Its better in the summer btw. 4) Sylvenstein lake has the most turquise color of all. Its really beautiful but they built a street over the middle of the lake ;D. 5) Bat Tölz or Miesbach are very old towns. Bad Tölz is a bit bigger. The Isar goes through there from Sylvenstein lake and then to Munich. The old town is really beautiful. Its the same train that goes to Tegernsee, just enter the other car of the train before it gets split up. 6) Also near Bad Tölz there is the mountain Brauneck. Thats also a nice mountain for summer and winter. 7) Chiemsee and/or Rosenheim 8) Winklmoosalm. Thats south of Chiemsee lake and you almost drove past it on the way to Kufstein. This alm is really famous around people from Netherlands for some reason. Very beautiful views on the Steinplatte mountain. You can even drive your car up there, walk or go by cable car. The best thing about it is the food. In my opinion what you can eat there is the best beef in bavaria. Its from the cows you will meet there, that roam the hills all summer long and only in winter they go to a shed. There are tons of hiking trails too. I think this one is better by car. But you can go there by train. If im not wrong you have to get into the train to Kufstein, then get off at Prien (Chiemsee) and then take a bus into the valley. Dont miss out on this one. 9) Landsberg (Lech) is also a nice city to visit. Its funny how close you missed all that
I wouldn’t say missed :) a lot of those are on our to do list but time, money, and trying to be somewhat strategic about which topics we choose to cover and when keep the list in constant flux. So hopefully you stick around and share the channel with your friends and family, because over the next few years we will slowly but surely chip away at this list!
Great video! We know…the almighty “algorithm” wants flashy. But the heck with that sometimes-I personally prefer THESE kind of videos. Showing what the “real” Germany is like away from the touristy stuff. What a great day y’all had ! And thanks for sharing. Keep these coming! Rob
Thanks so much for your kind words! It really means a lot.
Because this must be quoted: TIM: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! ARTHUR: Ohh. TIM: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared! TIM: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Monty Python?
@@ulrichdiederich3319 Exactly!
hahaha excellent reference.
What's the likelihood of being able to do this in late November and early December?
I am not sure if Petersberg is open during this time. It might be. I would call and ask. They speak English. IMHB, these very low elevation hikes in the foothills of the alps are nice in the winter if you dress warmly. I have done hikes like this in the winter, in deep snow, and have been fine. We wear waterproof hiking boots, long johns under our hiking pants, a thermal shirt and a workout shirt, a hat, and gloves. Goo luck!
Germany's cakes other than Scharzwälder-Kirsch or Frankfurter Kranz generally suck... like, even at children birthdays, they don't have like a chocolate or strawberry cake, it's so rare here, they do stuff like Marmorkuchen, Kaffeekuchen, Käsekuchen...just don't taste that great 😅
That has not been our experience. Maybe you need to try this Konditerei
At a "Bäckerei", a baker, you'll get only a basic variation of cakes. For more you have to go to a "Konditorei". There you'll find the more creamier, butterier stuff.
@@kilsestoffel3690 I was talking mroe about the types of cakes germans usually make at home, I just think they're mostly extremely boring, often dry. But yes, there are tasty cakes from Konditoreien.
@@lucashen9686 that's true. I was a spoiled kid, because my mom loves baking, but most home made cakes are very simple
@@kilsestoffel3690 I was spoiled too, my mother made delicious chocolate cakes with sweet coconut cream filling.
Why do you keep sticking your face in the frame all the time? Its unwatchable.
Yeah let’s have a disembodied walkthrough, lol, sounds like an A+ content strategy. You little jokester.
@@NearFromHomeWould be lovely! I want to see the beautiful Bavarian sights, not your face all the time however very pretty it is...