Today, having endured two days of closed shops due to Germany’s Whitsun Bank Holiday, we desperately set a course for everybody’s favourite European supermarket starting with an “L” to restock our depleted rations. It may seem rather boring to shop…
Each one prettier than the last
Last night we nipped over the road from our Stellplatz to a restaurant with a huge garden. Unfortunately by dinner time there was rain in the air, so I asked a waiter if he could re-erect one of the huge…
The Romanic Road
Today we headed north onto the Romantic Road. This is a apparently a route contrived by travel agents in the 1950s to connect together some of the places in Southern Germany that are seen as somehow quintessentially German. So the…
Emperor Augustus Again!
Mittenwald turned out to be every bit as pretty as my guide book had led me to believe. Set in the midst of the Bavarian Alps; a ski centre in the winter; it’s like the picture from a chocolate box…