Königssee + Obersee 🇩🇪 A Magical Day Trip in the Bavarian Alps + Kaiserschmarrn!
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2021
- We took our four kids on a day trip to see the MAGICAL Königssee and Obersee lakes in Berchtesgaden National Park, and we were blown away! It is a breathtaking place and is definitely a must-see in Germany (Deutschland). We're so happy we were able to show our children more of the beauty in Germany, and only a 45-minute drive away. We got to eat at a restaurant for the first time since we moved to Germany and were able to try Kaiserschmarrn for the first time! We hope you enjoy seeing how our family experienced this special park. We plan to go back to hike and stay overnight, too.
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I´ve never seen a kid as young as Grayson speaking german that fluently and with hardly no accent at all in such a short time - highly impressed!
I guess he has a talent for languages! We are surprised by it as well.
All of you are learning German crazy fast. It's so impressive!
yes, that's absolutely true.
Kids learn fast...
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife So that could lead into one of his professions - to be a translator of one culture, one languague, one understanding of life, to another . . .
I love hearing the kids talk German! and I Love hearing you as parents talk more German now 😍 best parts of the videos:)
Oh good, I’m glad you like that part!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife :-))
I just had the thought that your family and friends back in the US really have the best home videos of your family - and they are always up to date + somehow with you this way.
Yes that’s true! Many of our family does say they stay more updated with our videos and posts in Germany than they did when we lived in USA!
How beautiful are your children? And your family? Amazing!
Thank you so much! 💖🙏🏻
Sitting here in Florida watching your new video, and my eyes are leaking... I so very much miss my born to country, and now live vicariously through your videos. You are so very lucky!
Awe 😭😭 your homeland is a special place.
As you love water and forest so much
- a boat tour through Spreewald (near Berlin), trips on the Mecklenburger Seenplatte and days at the sandy beaches on the Baltic Sea
- would be so amazing for your family! 🧡
We would love both of those things!
Pls come to Schleswig-Holstein most northern part of Germany❤️
Really nice destination ideas! Lets me want to add some myself: I recommend visiting the Lüneburger Heide (Lueneburg Heath?) in Lower Saxony, the North Sea and the mud flat, the Eifel (you can bath in old vulcan craters there), maybe wait after they rebuilt, and the Sächsische Schweiz (Saxon Switzerland I think). Also you should visit Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden.
8:17 "Wir sind kalt" is literally translating the English words. But in German we say "Uns ist kalt" = "It's cold to us". But you're doing great in learning German. Well done :-)
I want to add the fact that, translating it literally may cause misunderstandings. "Du bist kalt" will be understood as "you are an emotionally cold person" or "cold hearted". Whereas "Dir ist kalt" means "you are cold".
@@Herzschreiber yes, and a similar problem with "i am hot" : _mir ist heiß_ refers to temperature while _ich bin heiß_ rather would be said by a (presumably) sexy person about herself :-)
@@Anson_AKB Oh, you both are right, I didn't think about that. Thanks for adding.
Ahhh thank you!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife you're welcome. I hope I haven't been too rude...But, well... you know: Germany. XD
I love to just imagine the stories the kids can tell every time you travel back to the United States to visit family or when you move back. Even on job applications and applications for College and University this is going to look great for them.
I sure hope so!
Grayson speaking German in such a short time is amazing. I love seeing the kids enjoying nature and play without beeing afraid of insects and plants like I often seen it in the US. You all adapted very good to your new home.
You are such a beautiful family ! What great memories will your kids have of these times when you took them on so many unforgettable trips .
Last time I was in southern Germany was about 60 years ago when I was a kid and my parents took me there and the impressions of the mountains and beautiful lakes have remained in my memory.
Congrats on another gorgeous video and professional editing .
Hi Grandma K! Thank you, you always leave such kind and thoughtful comments.
It's amazing to see how everybody's German is improving, i'm impressed! Also, I love watching your videos and seeing all these places from your point of you, even though i myself am from Bavaria, thank you for sharing your experiences!
Awe thank you, we so appreciate your comments. 💖
Königssee has been and will always be my most favorite place in the world, ever since my very first visit over 20 years ago. It's wonderful that you all spent the time to hike all the way back to Obersee. Eventually when your kids have more energy, and path is open, you could actually walk to the alm across Obersee and get fresh churned butter on bread. Lovely stuff.
Yes!! I really wanted to get them to walk to the Alm. But we need to go back on a sunnier and warmer day anyway, so we will just have to return!
your videos make me happy, they make me feel like everything's ok with the world, thank you for that
💚💚😍 we're so glad, thank you! There is still SO MUCH good left in our world!
Thanks for sharing that with us. Such an adorable, friendly family! Great composition of nature, music, experiences, authentic emotions and feelings and curiosity about new things and impressions. Please keep on doing that. Hope you still have enough time to enjoy everything in real life as it is so much work to take such amazing pictures! Warmest regards from the North of Germany
Thank you so much! 💖 Yeah it is a lot of work to vlog. I might not film every trip so that we can also relax and enjoy a trip or two.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife You should take out the family to a trip to Regensburg, where I went to university. You will love it.
@@SchoppeH oh we have a friend here in our neighborhood who is from Regensburg!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife He will tell you that it is a must to go there. For me it is the most northern Italian city….. thousands of years of history with almost Italian lifestyle.
The song's you used in the video make it look more magical ✨️ God bless you all
7:19 As long as you can get hot chocolate in the middle of nowhere, you can’t get lost completely. Very consoling. 🤗
Your son's German is so good! Sounds perfect.
Kaiserschmarrn is fairly easy to make at home, you should give it a try! Only need to be patient so it doesn't burn in the pan ;D
If your kids enjoy being in nature, for a future trip you could go to a "Barfußpfad", a barefoot trail (?), don't know if that's a thing in the US but I think they are quite common in Germany. I went to some when I was in elementary school to learn about the different materials and textures of the forest. They usually are not only for entertainment but also for education :)
A big ❤️ for the music in your vlogs 💐
Thank you 💖
Loved the vlog, keep making such beautiful vlogs
Love seeing that people from other Countrys are Interested in our Country and our language :D
You have a beautiful country! 💖
well mannered kids.
Nice, looks like you had a great "Vormittag" at the Königssee. You've probably already heard of it, but Berchtesgaden made me think of the salt mine they have close to there. It's actually a working salt mine and the Bad Reichenhall salt comes from there. There is a part of it you can tour and you go into the mountain on a little train like the miners used at one point and within you go down a couple of wooden slides and even cross a lake within the caves on some floats. Plus you learn about salt mining. It's actually pretty cool and I'm sure the kids would enjoy it. If you just google Salzbergwerk Berchtesgaden, it should just pop up 😉
I also highly recommend it...
Yes our kids would really enjoy that!
Apart from the (obvious) fact that you are a lovely family I wanted to say that I really like the style of your videos showing some everyday impressions as an intro!
Sehr schöne Kinder haben sie und gut erzogen
VERY excited will be there in 3 weeks!! Thanks for posting. Love your family and your videos.
Sehr schönes video... Ich lebe dort und trotzdem macht es Spaß zu zusehen ☺👋👋👋
Dankeschön!
Fantastic video in an awesome area of Bavaria. May I, however, remind viewers from outside Germany that this only one small aspect of German geography, landscape, culture, architecture, etc. Germany also has fantastic big rivers - the Danube and Rhine are just the biggest ones, with castles on every other hilltop; There's the North Sea and the Baltic Sea with beaches; the wine regions with vinyards everywhere - especially in the fall, when the leaves turn golden, and every village has their own wine festival. Then there is truly amazing industrial culture in the cities. And so much more ... Hopefully you will be able to see and vlog these, too in the future.
Oh yes for sure. We want to take the kids to the Rhine and Mosel rivers and see all of the castles. Germany is a beautiful country!
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@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Don't forget the North of Germany, like Bremen, Hamburg, Lübeck, nor the "North Sea" or "East Sea" (aka the Baltic Sea). Visit Islands like Langeoog or Wangerooge, where no cars are allowed, to instantly jump into "Urlaub" or vacation feeling.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Go there in the time of fall. It's a cool thing to see the grapes on the grapevines or taste "Federweisser" (the first white wine of the year).
@@marrykurie48 You always go east, but check out west of your location
Impressive language skills! Your kids are so cute and will learn German without much effort. Hard to keep up with them😉. I've never been to Königssee, but after watching this perfect video, I will.
So gorgeous landscape....
Greetings from Karlsruhe.
Hi from Karlsruhe! Thank you so much for your kind comments.
You guys are amazing,It’s so nice watching your trips and how you enjoy Bavarian 😘
Looks like you had another lovely day trip! 😊
So beautiful. Goosebumps.
You are not kalt, you hilarious people, but you are definitely very cool. 😎🥳🇩🇪🇺🇸
🤣🤣🥶🥶😎😎
You could buy such a "Wanderstock" Stick with the Königsee-Batch. You get a lot of batches to collect in Bavaria or Austria for example. After some trips your stick is full of these batches.
It was a little tradition in my fathers generation.
Oh cool! The boys would really like that!
i still have two such filled sticks from my childhood, and their handle looks like _Eispickel_ rather than walking sticks.
it makes us so happy. when we see people traveling with children. for we think children learn so much from traveling :)
Yes I hope they do!
You win my award for Best …Video, Best Photography, Best Music…Best! I can hardly wait to return to Germany. Thank You… for all the work & love you put into your videos!
She is talented isn't she?!? Glad you are enjoying our videos.
So,so beautiful.. Thank you for sharing.Vielen herzlichen Dank 💙
Wow, Eure Kinder sprechen aber schon sehr gut Deutsch. Wunderbar!
Dankeschön!
I love y'all! You're such a wonderful family. Good bless you all.
Thank you! Blessings to you as well. 💖
Very absorbing coverage of the amazing site.
We went last year to Königssee when we stayed in Berchtesgaden. I loved the horn on the boat. We could even hear the echo on the return trip from the other boat!
Yes! Love that part.
As always great pictures and music, love your videos. You should work for the Bavarian Tourism Agency…
Thank you so much!
I'm so glad to see your videos while imagining the experiences you and your family go through.
🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you!
Your camera work is really top notch! You caught the scenery and your family perfectly! 😍
Breathtaking landscapes - and great video! :)
Whew! Absolutely gorgeous!
It’s hard to take an ugly video of Königssee!
wonderful nature and wonderful video, thanks !
Thank you!
Love your Family 💐
... Great Video. Great Family. Great Location. 🍀
The walking sticks were very popular until the early 2000s amongst hiking clubs. After completion of various paths with varying degrees of difficulties you would receive a metal plate to signify completion. People would travel all over the country to wander and collect.
Our boys would love that!
I'm certain that they have a Wanderverband near you. Google Wanderverband Bayern it may be up your alley. Collecting those plates is a fun way to collect memories and be amongst nature. PS children's activities are also offered. Many thanks for sharing your adventures
Thank you for sharing your experience. Its fun to watch. 😊 Grayson sounds like a german kid. 👍
Thank you - he’s worked SO hard in 4th klasse! He has a lot of homework everyday and his teacher is strict, but it helps him to learn German faster.
Wenn eure Kinder etwas älter sind, könnt ihr die Berge hochgehen und das steinerne Meer bewundern und auf der Wasseralm übernachten. Sehr beeeindruckend.
Wenn die Kids noch älter sind, wäre eine Watzmannüberschreitung ein echtes Highlight.
Königssee is amazing... I was there in 2019... thanks for sharing this
So nice you were able to visit!
Schön, damit ihr hier bei uns wart.
Ich lebe hier am Königssee und freue mich wenn so nette Besucher bei uns sind.
Nice Visitor🤗
Sehr schön. Und wegen Corona auch nicht so überfüllt!
I just keep thinking how magical it is without all the huge tourist crowds and while I’m sad for the tourism businesses, what a lucky time for your family! Glad to see you enjoy it!!
Their sons remind me of my little brother haha, they're adorable!😆
Very nice. Thank you for this video. I liked your kid speaking about the island in the middle of nowhere.. and your reply to that..haha.. Very entertaining and useful. We are going to the place his weekend.
Are you! It’s so beautiful - enjoy your trip!
Really nice video and the music fits perfectly!
Thank you!
Fun fact: there ARE mountain goats (Gämsen) living wild in these mountains (I’ve seen them myself)!
Wen your kids are older and can stand really big hikes, you’ve got to start at Bartholomä and hike up to some of the mountain huts (with dorms and food to buy) up above those places!
That would be awesome!
Thank you for showing how beautiful germany is ❤️ love your videos !
That video is great! The footage is so beautiful and I love seeing you exploring and enjoying the nature.
I really love watching your videos and I am always looking forward 😊💕
Sorry for my bad English 🙈
Your English is great! Thank you for the nice comments!
Wunderschöne Video, und die Musik 🎵 dazu ist traumhaft 👍👏❤️❤️❤️🍀🍀🍀
Vielen dank!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Bitteschön,sehr gerne 😊
So joyful to watch you... Next time you go to Königssee you might want to have a look at the Bobsledding Track and maybe even have a ride down
No way!!! That would be so much fun!
Your kids are so brave well educated
You are a wonderful family ❤❤❤
Thank you!
Beautiful! Ich habe Fernweh (the opposite of 'Heimweh' (homesick)). ;-)
The visuals are stunning, Troll rocks were my favorite part. ❤️🔥
Yeah, toll rocks!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Haha.. Cant disagree there 😍
Beautiful scenery. Isn’t it?
Looks wonderful! At the moment I’m sitting inside my car watching while eating dinner on a Rastplatz ! I’m in Bavaria (lower Franconia )until the 10th of July to visit my best friend!
Oh wonderful! Franconia is a beautiful area. Enjoy your time with your friend!
Königssee is so so beautiful. It reminded me auf new zealand.
We’d both love to see NZ one day!
Sehr schön gemacht viele Grüße
Such a great video, thank you for that, it makes my day! The Königsseee is really worth a visit and I remember when I was there the first time I thought "Wow, this can't be real, this must be some kind of theater setting". But nobody could imagine (and build) a theater setting like that, right?
Right?! It doesn’t look real! It’s out of this world, so incredibly gorgeous. So glad our video made your day, thank you for commenting and watching!
Good that a little bad weather does not discourage you from exploring :D
As the Germans, Swedes, Dutch, Norwegian and Finnish say…There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife 🤣👍
Love the video! I've been there a few times, and I took a friend from Wales there too. He absolutely loved it! (we had better weather)
Funnily enough, my boss (also American) will take his family (wife and 3 kids) down to Berchtesgaden this weekend! I'll show him your video. 😃
Oh cool about your boss! And thank you!
The camera at the beginning of this video is super mega fantastic. So much detail and depth.
Oh thank you! I actually wasn’t using a good lens for landscape videography, so I was disappointed with most of my own shots.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife don't be so hard on yourself.. UA-cam conversion algorithm is very crude anyway and to add to that for some reasons it started to prefer 360p so I had to manually put it in 1080p to see more details.. I think you are doing great job. I'm looking forward your travels outaide alps, you are going to have a blast.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Don't worry. In my opinion it is impossible to catch up the whole beauty of that magical landscape by filming it. You did a great job, your shots are amazing but the best way is just being there, relaxing and enjoying everything the nature has to offer. Thank you for uploading this video and for sharing facts about the two lakes and the region of Berchtesgaden. Listening to the echo was like "Wow". (You can hear it pretty well in the video).
Oh that church with the round roofs down by the lake... My grandma has a wall tapestry of it. I think she bought it when she visited down there. I've never been there but I always recognize it 😅
Oh how special!
Your son already got it right :D sounds like a real german ..most germans would pronounce it Köni"ch"see with a soft ch instead of a hard g wich would almost sound like a k :D :D thats subtle but very distinctive :D, kids adapt soo fast :O
It’s amazing how fast kids learn!
Agreed on the "ch" part, however, it is not typical to Bavaria. So he is about to be a German - Poliglot 😍😍😍.
Everybody’s German is improving! So great! Keep enjoying your German experience! Beautiful scenery. Do you guys plan on travelling to the other Bundesländer as well?
Yes we do! We wanted to explore our area of Germany first because it’s all so new to us.
oh lovely it looks :) I am so missing travel now .. its refreshing to see that its cold as well when we are going thru a huge heat wave now of 40+ c
Oh gosh, are you on the west coast of North America?
If I may suggest you a location to visit. The salt mine in Berchtesgaden is for kids and adults totally exciting with its slides and the boat trip under/in the mountain.
Yes! We’d love to see that!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife It is absolutely worth to see. I have visit the mine in my childhood too. I remember the salt mine-train, the illuminated salt blocks, the black jackets and the helmet you have to wear. And the slide makes a lot of fun. I remember that we all got a leather rag for our butt in order to slide down. Absolutly amazing!
Quite packed there despite Corona!
Wunderbar
Cows are udderly awesome. Quite moooooving.
Hahahaha!
Grayson's language skills are terrific. Have un at Königsee. I was there when I was about your kid's age - a looooong time ago
Dankeschön!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife You guys inspired me to check out summer holiday options in the Königsee area for later this summer
Nice video, regarding the boats both versions are let's say true. It started with the hunting part and in the meantime they only use electrical engines to spare the sea (no risks of oil/diesel spills and so on).
Oh cool, both are correct!
Willkommen zu Hause!
I like your videos a lot! :)
Aww.. if you had announced that earlier, I'd have hopped over and said hello. I live about 20km away from there. Nice to see that you liked our picturesque landscape. :-)
Oh very cool! We want to go back in a sunny day. It was so cold and rainy!
When you come back you definitely have to do the hike to the far end of the Obersee. It's steep and you'll need good shoes but man it's worth it! You'll find the Salet-Alm back there where you can get some ridiculous good ham and cheese, and fresh milk as well. Also you'll have the chance to see the waterfall from up close.
The reason for the electric boats is told by the guy that plays the trumpet, iirc: the water of the Königssee has "Trinkwasserqualität" (means you can drink it).
Ah that's great! Keeps it even cleaner.
Sooo nice. Thank you for sharing. We’ve been to Königssee (just drove by for lunch from Croatia). As I will be moving soon near Munich (due to a new job), we will be exploring more the Königssee & Obersee. I am excited!!!
You will LOVE it! It’s a truly magical place!
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife I bet! I was fascinated already through your video😍
It's so beautyful 😍 My profilepicture is from the Alm at the other side of Obersee. Its stunning over there 😊
Oh I can see that, even though the picture is so tiny.
Im not 100% sure but i think the good Batterys came from the fact that Germany (The Emperor) needed them for the "U-Boot Waffe" he was implementing in the Navy that time so Varta had the order to make them better/more powerfull and smaller in size so they can be used in Submarines. Emperor Willhelm II. loved his Navy so much that he pushed the developement really hard. He wanted an equal counterpart to the British Royal Navy.
What a beautiful place.
Again a very nice video! I was there nearly 40 years ago in my childhood, but I can remember the thing with the echo :-). It seems as if your trip was a few weeks ago? You should return when it is warm and sunny!
Yes indeed - we do need to return when it is warmer! We did. This trip during the Pentacost holidays at the very end of May. It takes a while to edit and get these videos ready and we got a little behind!
I was there a lot with my grandpa when I was younger
What wonderful memories those must be!
what a good camerawork, and Kaiserschmarrn after a good hikingtour is always delicious; there is so much in Berchtesgaden to see; Rodelbahn, Salzbergwerk, with the Cablecar up to watzmann near to 2000m
Thank you! So wonderful you were there as a child. 💖
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife not as achild, as an adult i had a job in TS over 10 Years
I visited that place 5 years ago. It's magical. Be careful with the Austrian Autobahns: You always have to buy a "Pickerl" before driving on it.
The Königssee indeed is a kind of magical place. We have been there during our summer vacation in 2019. On our way to Croatia we took a 2 day stop over in Bad Reichenhall to visit the Königssee and Salzburg before heading on.
We also took the boat tour and a hike at the Obersee. I definitely want to come back here. :-)
What a lovely trip that must’ve been! We are excited to go to Croatia, too.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife It was a nice vacation, although we had a few problems on the way to Croatia. At the border I realized that I had lost my ID and we had to turn back and go to Ljubljana. There I obtained a temporary passport at the German Embassy with which we were able to enter Croatia. So we arrived at the hotel with one day delay. But on the other hand we had the unplanned possibility to visit Ljubljana, which is a really nice city.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife Did you saw the last videos from "Our Story to Tell" on youtube? ;)
As a precaution, I carry my passport, residency card, and driver's license anytime Mike and I go on an adventure. Mike suggested that I do this when we first moved here, and it has just become a habit. Great video! I haven't really traveled south yet. We are staying as local as possible right now.
Same here, staying local. Are you also an expat/immigrant here in Germany? Yes we hadn’t received yet our residence cards when we went on this trip. Now we have them so it’d be easier to travel. We were told not to leave the country until our residence cards came as it’d be difficult to get back in.
@@MyMerryMessyGermanLife, yes. I am an American expat living in Northern Germany. I am glad you have your cards. It makes everything easier.
Good editing and content creation
Thank you!