This morning we got up early to go and see a bit of Innsbruck before we had to check out of our camp site by 12. We raced around the outer city sights, which included the winter Olympic stadium and ski jump and a view of the Innsbruck castle from up high. We then found a spot to park and walked around the historic part of town. We were busy consulting our map wondering where the building with the golden roof was, until we looked up and saw we were standing in f...

Today we were decided to have a lazy / relaxing day as we needed a break from the busyness of sightseeing. We started the day with skyping the family and then headed to the local shopping centre in search of a hairdresser. Brett already needed a haircut before we left home and it was now a month on and looking shocking! Success, Brett is looking his handsome self again :) Sami will be pleased & Mom M will be upset to know that Brett has hair gel in his hair...

We had an earlier than normal start today as our Lonely Planet guide warned us that tickets to tour Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein castle sell out by 8.30am at the peak of summer. Anyway after driving from Oberstdorf to Fussen, a bit of traffic and a trip to the information centre, we made it to the ticket office by 11am. The good news was that the tickets hadn't sold out. The bad news was that the earliest we could get to tour was 5pm and the queue for such...

Switzerland must have heard our blog comments and put on another beautiful day for us. The tent was dry when we packed up and all the washing too! Yay. This morning we walked along the lake front into Lucerne to 'see the sights' and came across a number of super-sized swans. Our tourist map was kind enough to have camera icons indicating the good photo spots. The first one was not difficult to find with the sea of camera toting tourists crowded in the area tak...

After the disastrous day yesterday, today started a lot brighter. It rained heavily overnight but eventually the sun came out and we had a beautiful warm day. Lauterbrunnen seemed a lot prettier and all in all our dispositions were a lot better too. Yesterday in a small patch of clear weather we went for a walk which took you behind a waterfall. We looked super stylish in our poncho's as you'll see in the photos! Last night while writing blogs we saw that the ...