{"id":476,"date":"2023-03-17T09:07:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcielsims.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2023-03-07T18:09:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T18:09:42","slug":"ilona-cole-story-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcielsims.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/ilona-cole-story-123\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilona Cole, Story 123"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Beautiful Ski Resort in the Alpine Mountains \u201cGarmish Partenkirchen\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was to be\na cold winter this year and my Hal and I had made plans to be in Germany at the\nsame time as our good friends who went on skiing trips almost every winter to\nGermany, Switzerland or Austria. We made plans to meet them in the beautiful\nvillage of Garmish right in the Alpine Mountains. My Hal and I are not skiers,\nbut meeting our friends there, enjoying the superb Restaurants, going shopping\nin this great village and sight seeing sounded good to us and we wanted to\nexplore this opportunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We flew into\nthe Airport close to Munich and contacted our friends after we arrived at our\nHotel. We set a time to meet with them in the restaurant in our hotel to have\nlunch together and make plans for the three days my Hal and I were there. When\nthey arrived at our table and after the big hugs we got ready to order lunch.\nWe found out from our waiter that we still could have breakfast and that their\nchef makes French toast from Brioche\/raisin bread and serves it with heated\nhoney, a slice of Jambo (French ham) accompanied with a m\u00e9lange of berries. A\nwonderful fragrance arose from the coffee pot as the waiter was pouring it into\nour cups. The breakfast was to behold, it was tasty, and our plans were put on\nhold. Our attention was given entirely to the food in front of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also were\ndiscussing dinner for tonight. Richard suggested we have dinner in the Chalet\nway on top of the mountain and described the beautiful dining room in the\nchalet. But if we want to get a glimpse of the awesome surroundings, this\nshould be for lunch and not dinner I thought. It is getting dark by five\no\u2019clock. Everyone agreed and we made reservation for the next day for lunch. And\ndinner reservation for tonight at this fabulous hotel. Richard told about the\nawesome dining room and the breathtaking view and there are gondolas taking the\nnon-skiers up to the chalet. Richard and Marilyn left to take in a few more\nruns skiing and we went to our suit to unpack our suitcase to get out some warm\nclothing and our boots. Dressed nice and warm we thought to walk leisurely\nthrough town, look into some shops or just \u201cpeople watch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Hal was\nwearing charcoal gray slacks with a gorgeous Missoni sweater, his gray\nshearling coat and his boots. I wore my cream color cashmere slacks with a plum\ncolor cashmere sweater and my cream color cashmere coat and boots. We were\ndressed nice and warm, just not in ski fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garmish has\na lot of American Army personnel and their families living there. They had\nbuilt a large Hotel with PX and a commissary outside of town for the American\nfamilies to shop. Our friends stayed in a Motel with the ski group from Boeing.\nOur hotel was right in town, had a beautiful appointed lobby and was two\nstories high. We had a suit on the second floor with a separate bedroom and in\nthe bathroom a huge bath tub. Breakfast or a late snack were offered as room\nservice. A very nice and spoiling touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a\nlovely dinner that night with our friends. My Hal ordered a bottle of an aged\nred Burgundy, a symphony on ones tongue and tastebuds. Our two gentlemen ordered\nfilet of venison with an awesome sauce, spaetzle (pasta)and white asparagus on\nthe side. Marilyn and I ordered Chateau Briand for two, very delicious! For\ndessert we four ordered the same cr\u00e8me brule\u00e9 and a delicious espresso. Our\nfriends invited us to join them to a club for music and dancing. But we\ndeclined, since we had our long flight from Seattle behind us we preferred to\ngo upstairs to our suit and relax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is\nSaturday and it is very cold, but sunny and no fresh snow. It seems that today\nagain our agenda is \u201ceating.\u201d Lunch at the Chalet. Looks like that is all we\ndo. The gondola ride up the mountain was spectacular and the scenery\nbreathtaking. As we came out of the gondola one felt uninhibited and free. In\nones lifetime to see this surround is a tremendous gift. Never to be forgotten.\nThe scenery inside the chalet, especially the dining room was also awe\ninspiring. Beautifully furnished, beautiful vessels with flowers on every table\nand soft, pleasant music throughout. We were seated by a big round table right\nby a window. The white linen on the table was bright with the sun coming\nthrough the window and the white fresh snow was glistening in the sunshine and\neverything looked so pristine. One could order from a menu or partake from the\nplentiful buffet. Marilyn and I ordered from the menu, like our breakfast\nyesterday and our two gentlemen went to the buffet. We had a wonderful\nassortment of food, good aromatic coffee and a lively conversation and the time\npassed along fast. The few hours left of the Saturday were used to purchase\nsome beautiful cards with photos of this town and this beautiful surrounding\narea. We will treasure them along with photos my Hal took of Garmish and our\nfriends and places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow,\nSunday we will make the rounds to art galleries and the art museum. We found\nsome lovely pencil sketches in one of the art shops. Something for the soul and\nemotion. They too need to be fed. Monday morning my Hal and I will take the Bullet\nTrain to Darmstadt to spend the rest of our vacation with my sister Friedl and\nher husband Georg. We will take home some beautiful purchases and awesome memories.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Beautiful Ski Resort in the Alpine Mountains \u201cGarmish Partenkirchen\u201d It was to be a cold winter this year and my Hal and I had made plans to be in Germany at the same time as our good friends who went on skiing trips almost every winter to Germany, Switzerland or Austria. We made plans … <\/p>\n

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