The train guard pointed to his watch and said ‘We will arrive in Munich in just over 3-hours”, a relatively short journey from Frankfurt’s grand terminus. Yet, between these two points, I had the chance to hop into Franconia’s wine country, skip between the medieval charms of Nuremberg and jump straight into the cosmopolitan flair and Bavarian traditions of Munich, swapping a crisp glass of white wine with a ‘Die Maß’ litre glass of beer at Oktoberfest, along the way.
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