Boring arse day today. When I say boring it was still awesome and it was just a bus day. We left Lucerne unfeasibly early to try and avoid traffic and roadworks which are both notoriously bad in Germany. We were expected to arrive in Oberwesel for our cruise at 3:30 but as we didn't encounter any of those said problems we were there at 2:30. On the way to Oberwesel we had lunch outside Hockenheimring where they have the German Grand Prix. It just looked like a fo...

What a fun day. I'll be quick coz I'm knackered. We started off our day with a cruise around Lake Lucerne. It is the second biggest lake in Switzerland (there are some big lakes here so it must be massive) and has been lived on by some famous people. Audrey Hepburn lived and was married overlooking the lake, Charlie Chaplin had a house here and the German composer Richard Wagner also had a house on the lake. We passed some houses worth 20 million euro plus and wh...

"What makes a good man turn neutral, lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?" Zapp Branigan. As you might have guessed from that quote we are in Switzerland. Leaving Austria wasn't easy but the bus keeps rolling on. This morning we explored Innsbruck (read: went to the Swarovski flagship store) and if I see another crystal in the next month I'm going to lose it. Some of the blokes on the tour have described it as a shopping to...

Argh, bad weather is the bane of my existence. Well actually we have had very good weather until we got to Salzburg. Once again I would like to reiterate that Austria is about two things, old music and "The Sound of Music" and Salzburg has both things in spades. What it also has on spades is rain apparently as it teemed down all day. Salzburg was just a lunch stop for us today, but wifey and I decided to do an optional tour before we had lunch and we (she) weren'...

Today we went into the old centre of Vienna and man what a pretty city. The buildings are simple and beautiful and the things that are accentuated are done in a lovely baroque style. We went to both the summer and winter palaces of the Hapsburg family, the ruling family of Austria for over 300 years. The last Hapsburg left the throne in 1918 after WWI and since then Austria has been a democracy. The winter palace was the main residence of the family and covers 10...