Hi! My husband and I are going to Europe in November. We are flying open jaw, into Venice where we will stay 3 nights, then fly into Munich, landing around 2:30pm.
Munich is not a priorty for us, we prefer smaller, quaint towns. We do want to experience beer, sausage, pretzels, castles, Dachau, etc.
After hours upon hours, and days upon days, we're finally getting somewhat of a plan down for our German roadtrip, but are looking for any advice, in things you think we should avoid, change, add, etc.
Currently, we're thinking of picking up our rental car in Munich, and driving to Fussen. We thought we'd stay either 1 or 2 nights in Fussen, the first day we arrive, it will likely be around 6 or 7pm, so the next day would be when we could explore the Neuschwanstein Castle, etc.
We could either stay an additional night, or drive from there to Salzburg. I think we plan to stay 2 nights in Salzburg, then on our departing day, drive to Dachau. Explore Dachau, then drive through to Rothenburg ob der Tauber, where we would stay 2 nights.
Then we'd drive to Bacharach or St. Goar - stay 2 more nights. We'd like to explore the Rhine.
We have a total of 7 nights in Germany (plus the 2 in Salzburg)...
From Germany, we're driving to Belgium. We are still deciding whether we should drive all the way into Brugge (where we will stay for 2 or 3 nights, still deciding), and then Brussels for 1 night before returning our car the next day and training into Paris. Or we can split up the drive from Germany, and stay in Brussels that first night, and then drive on to Brugge for 2 or 3 nights (still deciding - any advice?) - then drive to Brussels to return the car and take the train into Paris.
Any advice would be very welcome!!
Thank you so much!