Now I’ve recovered from yesterday I can look back and smile at an inexplicable cock-up last night. We drove round Munich following the signs for Garmisch-Partenkirchen because the satnav was wanting to take us through the city. We passed the dramatic Allianz stadium glowing bright red like a huge tyre. Red because Bayern Munich were playing. It glows blue when 1860 are playing. An hour later, we passed it again and had somehow managed to perform a 180 degree turn. Eventually we got out of Munich and spent a very pleasant night in a rastplatz half way to Garnisch.
Got there this morning, took pics of the ice stadium and ski slope from the 1936 winter olympics and had a very relaxing walk. We then continued through meadows of bright green grass studded with little barns for storing fodder against a back drop of towering snow-capped peaks. The road rose imperceptibly until it suddenly plunged for a great distance to the Innsbruck valley below. Nothing much to see in Innsbruck so we carried on to Salzburg but the satnav was playing silly buggers again, wanting to take us back to Garmisch, so we just followed the road signs and soon discovered the method in the satnav’s madness. We have set it to avoid tolls and the satnav must know that we have to buy a vignette to travel on main roads in Austria. Cost me 9 euros but I found 4 cents on the road, so only 8.96 E.
Tripadvisor reckons that the most popular thing in Salzburg is apple strudel tasting, so we gave that a miss and looked for the fortress. I got mixed up with its name; finished up at another castlre which had been turned into a casino. I went in and lost all our money, but sold my body and got it back. We eventually found the fortress but it was closed and required a long climb, so we set off for Vienna and spent the night at the sweet little village of St Gilgen on the shores of the Wolfgangsee lake.
