Awoke to a wet morning having heard a significant thunderstorm overnight.
The drive out was not very pleasant as the rain pelted down and I wasn’t able to get the wipers moving quickly enough to move all the water which made driving on some of the narrow winding roads a tad butt clinching!
The weather cleared by the time we arrived and so our visit was in dry conditions but with temperatures well below what we have been used to.
The town sits low in the valley and I doubt whether from 1km out of Triberg there is a level street as at times the slopes approximate 30degrees. When we drove in there was an elderly person struggling up the main road and we commented rather him than us, but later on it became us!
While not the most jaw dropping places to visit there were a couple of interesting things for tourists.
On the large tourist street map there was a delightful mistranslation
In the Main Street there is a shop which among other souvenirs and the like sells cuckoo clocks, as Triberg is regarded as one of the homes of these clocks - it advertises as having 1000s of clocks on display and while I didn’t attempt to count them there certainly was a great number.
This one had a price tag of €14999!
There were also shelves of beer steins priced upwards of €185+
Perhaps the most eye catching attraction was the waterfalls of Gutach which are the highest waterfalls in German and the main entrance to them lies in the middle of town
The water tumbles over a granite bed, dropping 163 metres in seven steps. The walk/climb to the head of the falls is very picturesque with moss over huge granite boulders with vivid green trees rising up from the slopes
A pleasant visit with a better drive back in dry conditions until we got back down out of the hills approaching Freiburg where it was raining and gave the impression of having done so most of the day, though the weather cleared shortly after.
Kms driven to date 1003
Kms walked to date 157.6
Spent on diesel to date €65
Spent on tolls to date €0
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