A day of surprises

During the night there were two significant hailstorms, the hail sounding like it was going to come through the roof, and then steady rain early morning which cleared mid morning to give us another fine day, a day that came with many surprises. 

Surprise #1 was talking to Sam and his family on Skype to hear about their holiday in Bali during the recent school holidays. They had an epic time.

Our accommodation is on the third floor of the building in the photo below

It has two slanted windows with mechanical openers in the roof and surprise #2 was that they closed automatically when it rained!

We started a walk around the town to have a look at the highlights that the city has to offer

Inner courtyard of Füssen‘s castle

Beside the castle is the cathedral and we went in to have a look but it looked to us that a service was going to start so went to go out but surprise #3 was that the doors were now shut and we couldn’t get them open. We interpreted, using Google Translate, a notice pinned to the board and realised that every Wednesday there was an organ recital for 30 minutes at this time so we stood in the foyer waiting for that time to pass, trying the door from time to time. Luckily a guy who was in the church got a bout of the coughs and he came to the foyer and casually opened the door (we weren’t pushing on the heavy door hard enough) to go out and we sidled out behind him.

While making a purchase in a store we were lucky enough (surprise #4) to be able to communicate with person who designed the item we were intending to buy and so we were able to get the full background on how he came to design the product and also an understanding on where all the components were sourced from.

We started to walk along the banks of the Lech river and came across the Lech waterfalls (surprise #5)

Due to the heavy rain overnight the water was very brown unlike the beautiful blue water that was flowing yesterday.

As we crossed the bridge to the other side of the Lech we saw a sign which indicated that Austria to our surprise (#6) was 700m down the road so we were able to walk from one country to another and then walk back across the border again - given our island nation it seemed a strange thing to be able to do

As we walked back to the city we noticed a statue that had been inserted into the side of the river walls, many meters above the river

Some days never turn out the way one imagined at the start of the day.

Tomorrow we leave Germany, drive through Austria and end up in Italy to start the next stage of our trip. It is a reasonably long drive through the Alps (we think).

Danka schon becomes grazie mille 

Bitte becomes per favore 

Hallo becomes buongiorno 

Tschüss becomes ciao

Tut mir leid becomes scusi 

Kms driven to date 2206

Kms walked to date 347

Spent on Diesel €129.66

Highest price paid to date for diesel €1.579 Würzburg 

Lowest price paid to date for diesel €1.479 Freiburg

Spent on tolls €0