The rain in Spain fall mainly on Bavaria

Time to pack up and leave the Hotel in Innsbruck and head towards Germany. WE both thought that Innsbruck without snow looks a pretty boring place although the mountains surrounding the town were quite beautiful. The Hotel Tivoli has only just joined the Hilton Chain and whether it will change its name it remains to be seen but the interesting  point was that it is run by Muslims with the ladies in their full dress and headgear serving breakfast including pork bacon.

Needless to say it started raining soon after we left as expected and our route was planned using non motorway and non Toll roads so we could get a nice view of the country and we were initially for a nice attractive town, well in the photos it was, called Garmisch-Partenkirchen which in the photos we had seen of the town would be a good place to stop and even have lunch but as we arrived the rain increased significantly and we did not fancy walking around in the heavy rain and so on to the next tourist spot called Castle Neuschwanstein but on route we stopped at a Spar store for some items for lunch and then on to the castle which Noel had visited many years ago on a Lufthansa Airline tour back in the early 1980’s. 

The traffic was quite heavy at times and we thought and discussed the fact in this rubbish weather the castle should be reasonably quiet and as we went past another well romantic old town called Fussen we noticed the amount of people and cars parked some way from the town and the traffic in the direction of the town had come to a complete stop. Fussen is close to the Castle and when we arrived at the Castle the crowds and cars were almost overwhelming with the streets packed with people, others using the bus service up the hill to visit the castle and also the many horse drawn carts loaded all going up the hill in the pouring rain. In fact the car parks looked full and the amount of Motor homes was also significant and so NO we are not going to that and just try to get some photos as it would be impossible to do a tour and then drive the 2.5 hours to Munich.

So we left the town and stopped in the empty car park of a related church to enjoy our lunch and we were parked in a direction so we did not notice until leaving a brilliant view of the Castle in the mist rain.

We decided that we would continue to Munich (or Munchen the locales call it) only to discover that Google maps kept calling it Minchin?? anyway we used all the side roads which of course takes longer but then we did not want to get tied up with the locals leaving for home on a Friday and this was a wise move as the roads and views were quite stunning at times. We noticed that many Bavarian villages had what one might describe as a Maypole which were fully decorated and even a couple we assumed welcomed a new baby to the town.

We finally arrived at the Hotel Hilton Garden Inn Munich Messe and this is a fairly new hotel perhaps less than one year old and the rooms and ambience was very nice indeed and we decided to eat in the Hotel tonight and Noel enjoyed and excellent Hamburger and fries and Jennifer had a Chicken club sandwich also with a few fries. Then back to the room where we watched a film on Netflix before turning in the for the night and at least the duvets were of a weight to enable sleep as last nights in Innsbruck were far to heavy and you were either to hot with it or too cold without it.