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…
Austria – AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Thank goodness we have managed to get out of Austria. But first things first. This morning I had a bit of a shock when I rang the campsite we were intending to stay on near Innsbruck, to enquire about their…
Into the valley
After a frustrating evening yesterday, where we planned to go to an Italian Restaurant near the campsite only to decide the road to it, which had no footpath, was too dangerous, we today headed northwards. Our initial journey was along…