Sue and Martin in Mallorca 2019

Sue and Martin in Mallorca 2019
On the Archduke's Path in Mallorca
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Sunday, 28 September 2025

7 to 17 September 2025 - Ehrwald with Collett's


Ehrwald and Zugspitze from Grubigstein

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Sunday 7 September 2025 - Ehrwald

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Monday, 15 September 2025

Monday 15 September 2025 - Zugspitze and Grubigstein


A view from near the summit

On a lovely sunny day, Sue and I joined various others for the ascent of Zugspitze, 2962 metres. The cablecar runs every 20 minutes and holds up to 100 passengers. There weren't that many today.

This next series of photos was taken whilst spending a couple of hours in what amounts to a small village, including bars, restaurants and a museum, at the top of the mountain.





L-R: Martin, Sue, Kate, Fiona, Angie and Alistair




The top is shown above. Only Sue was brave enough to visit it. She was apparently surrounded by ill equipped grockles. 

A glass floor was a little unnerving. 



The descent, after coffees and Squaredle, offered a fine view down to the Zugspitze Arena.



Here's the view from the bottom of the hill.


A ten minute bus ride then took us (Sue, Kate, Fiona and me) across the Arena to the two Grubig gondola rides that reached to over 2000 metres, with fine views towards the Zugspitze massif and elsewhere.



We stopped for tea and snacks about 350 metres from the top station.



A paraglider set off towards the Arena.



More photos were taken while Sue stormed to a cross that overlooked our position.


Meanwhile, I wrote up yesterday's diary entry and the girls pottered about in awe of the magnificent scenery. 


I tried 'portrait' mode with limited success.


The next picture is in normal photo mode.


More flower pictures - Harebell and others - were taken today and they will feature on the recent 'Flower' posting.

What a brilliant day! Paid for by way of our 10-day Z tickets (€135 each), which have provided a good saving over the standard charges.

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Friday, 12 September 2025

Friday 12 September 2025 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Partnachklamm Gorge



With the weather forecast not great, and clouds fairly low, we chose to get the bus to Garmisch-Partenkirchen so as to explore the Partnachklamm Gorge.

This is route E7 on Collett's list, and runs beside the river from near the station. Sue is pictured above where we joined the riverside path.

We soon found ourselves passing lots of carefully labelled rocks, some on pedestals and other larger rocks in stand alone positions. Fascinating for geologists.


Alistair and Angie, and Kate and Fiona were also representing Collett's on this outing.

A tourist trap cantered past.


A stadium that housed some of the 1936 Winter Olympics events was passed. They have a new ski jump and are preparing for a slot in the 2026 Olympics that are to be spread over several locations in a wide area.



The Gorge beckoned. It got off to a poor start as we passed a derelict former restaurant.


After an entrance gate where the fee of €10 got us in, things certainly looked up. In fact we looked up in amazement to high bridges, and down to the roaring torrent in a deep cleft, with lots of waterfalls down the sides and tunnels for us to walk through. 











At the end of all the excitement a steep path led up to the bridges and a mountain hut where the others paused for refreshments. 


Sue and I continued down via the high path, eventually reaching the exit and a nearby covered area with an information board about the replacement of a key bridge after it was destroyed by a falling beech tree in the storms of 2022.



On the way down we observed a variety of interesting rock formations.


Tourists could be seen far below, making their way between tunnels on the path through the gorge. 


The path flattened and turned to tarmac, passing on the way some strange sculptures. 


We decided to visit the older of the two towns whose municipal authorities were brought together by Hitler in 1935. That's Partenkirchen. A short tour of the town that dates from before 15AD yielded the following images.






We returned to the Garmisch side of town via the town hall that was forced on the two towns (Garmisch dates merely from C15) by Hitler.


We had a bit of time to play with (shopping/squaredle) before meeting up with the other four at the bus stop for the 4pm bus back to Ehrwald. A 30 minute ride then five minutes on a number 1 bus after we had amusingly (stupidly) installed ourselves on the incorrect number 5 bus...

Here's our walking route - 14km with about 250 metres ascent.


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