Autobahns. After driving over 2000kms in Germany, it makes our road laws, particularly our speed limits seem ridiculous. On the Autobahns, there are sections where there are no speed limits. The majority of drivers seem to sit at 130 -140 with a few driving at various speeds much faster. No one, I repeat no one sits on the outside lane, the fast lane. They overtake and immediately pull back into the inside lane. There are strict rules on when trucks can overtake,...

A museum day today in Berlin and there are many and have some pretty amazing exhibits. The cream of crop is the Pergamon which has 3 amazing reconstructions, the Pergamon alter dating back to the 2nd century AD. It is 35 metres wide and 33 metres deep with sculptured friezes showing the battles between the giants and the Greek gods. You walk into the room and it is enormous. The very next room had the market gates of Miletus, a roman city in western Turkey follo...

Following our stay in Augsburg we travelled to Nordlington and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, both medieval walled cities, the later that has not had any new buildings within the walls since medieval times. Buildings, walls and gates were amazing but unfortunately tourism has got the better of the Rothenburg and ever shop is filled with the usual tourist trinkets and crap, except the Christmas shop which has every imaginable decoration , trinket, wood carving etc etc ...

Of all the countries we have visited so far, none have come closer than the Germans. Not that I necessarily have a soft spot for them but this morning on the train ride into Munich to visit the city and see Oktoberfest, they were right up against me and I had this 6 and a half foot Germans bum pressed into my back. The 40 minute ride into the city was literally like sardines in a tin, with half of them wearing leather pants. The other half (the female kind) had l...

Guten tag from Deutschland. Since I last blogged, we have travelled from the Italian lakes, dropped Toni and Chris off in Venice, stayed overnight in the northern Italian ski resort of Cortina de Amprezzo, travelled through the Dolomites, crossed Austria and are here in Schwangau in the Bavarian Alps. The stay at Lake Maggiore was great with excellent hosts (B&B) - good find Toni, and a wonderful location right on the lake. Unfortunately, the weather did no...