Oberstdorf • Europe Briefing Gemütlichkeit the Travel Letter for Germany, Austria, Switzerland & the New Europe
• Meissen Porcelain • Oberstdorf • Europe Briefing GEMüTLICHKEIT The Travel Letter for Germany, Austria, Switzerland & the New Europe THIS ISSUE: • Readers' Forum DEAR SUBSCRIBER OBERSTDORF November 28, 1994 Though seldom visited by Americans, Oberstdorf, in Germany's Allgau, is an enormously popular ski and "cure" destination for Germans. Gemütlichkeit editor/publisher, Bob Bestor, was there recently. Cheaper to Ski Europe? Could an Austrian ski vacation berstdorf is about Those driving to Driving south from possibly be less expensive than one as far south as Oberstdorf should use Memmingen, one can take in Colorado? The Austrian Tourist one can go and Mairs Deutschland Die the autobahn to below Office seems to think so. They sent O Generalkarte #25 (scale Kempten but we recom- us a press release complete with still be in Germa- 1:200,000) or ADAC # 14 mend the yellow road to charts that show a one-week ski ny. In a wide, flat valley vacation in three Austrian ski areas surrounded by mountains Bodensee, Schwäbische Alb, Ottobeuren and its — Innsbruck, Zell Am See and St. that offer some of Germa- Allgäu. Approaching from fabulous church, then a Anton/Arlberg — range from $1,002 ny’s finest skiing, this resort the west, Lindau or leisurely backroads drive to $1,600 per person, while a week town is in that tip of Bregenz, we suggest south through such towns in Aspen or Park City, Utah, is slightly Germany that extends into heading south to Federal as Untrasried and Betzi- over $1,600. Austria about midway Road (red on maps) #200 gau. Below Kempten, find between Füssen in Bavaria which goes east to Hittsau.
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