Need help with where to go from Munich

I have used tripadvisor when planning my trips before, and have always had such helpful advise. I usually have more specific questions, but I am at a loss here. My husband and I are going on a Danube riverboat cruise (he has won a trip....hurray!) for one week. It starts and ends in Munich. We would like to do an add on, of a week or two. I have no idea where to go from there. See more of Austria??? (we will be hitting some cities on the cruise) see some of Switzerland???? I don%26#39;t know????? Help???? I usually plan all the trip myself, booking hotels and transportation but I am thinking of maybe doing a tour, from there. Can anyone suggest a tour company that they have had experience with? I have even thought of perhaps taking a cheap flight totally south, to maybe Spain??? Anyone know of any cheap flights or airlines out of Munich? I know I am being pretty vague. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Colleen

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%26gt; It starts and ends in Munich

... but not by riverboat. The river through Munich is the Isar. Rafting is there an option. Only downstream of course.

http://www.fb-freizeitservice.de/isar.htm#

Munich Tourism

www.muenchen.de/Tourismus/6942/index.html

Why not see a bit of Bavaria if you already in Munich (the capital of Bavaria).

There are e.g. the famous castles of King Ludwig II

http://www.neuschwanstein.de/

http://www.linderhof.de

http://www.herrenchiemsee.de

The Bavarian Alps

http://www.berchtesgadener-land.info

http://www.garmisch-partenkirchen.de

http://www.mittenwald.de

http://www.allgaeu.info

Some nice medieval cities

http://www.bamberg.info

landshut.de/landshut_english/…

(also Passau and Regensburg - but they are on the Danube and are probably stops of your river cruise).

and medieval towns

www.rothenburg.de/d/ISY/index.php?get=121

Some outstanding places to have an outstanding beer

www.kloster-andechs.de/index.asp?lng=en

www.klosterschenke-weltenburg.de/index.php…

Weltenburg monastry is also at the Danube, but shortly behind the navigable part of the Danube (only reachable by smaller boats).

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Also consider taking the train south through the Alps into Italy.

There is a daily train to Rome at around 09:00am, it stops at Verona, Florence and terminates in Rome.

I caught this last year (2006) from Munich to Florence and we only paid €19 each for a reserved seat.. You can book directly on the Deutsche Bahn website

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Italy sounds nice, although we did a trip a couple of years ago. We really liked Italy though. How long did the trip take and did you see much taking the train?

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sorry for not replying sooner, full journey to Rome was approximately 10 hours, scenery through the Alps down to Bolzano was spectacular, after that it was standard countryside until I got off in Florence

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