Europe 2011


E-Day +13, Salzburg, 16:30 hours

We are back at the hotel a bit early today as we have walked and walked all day and have our Mozart dinner concert this evening. Today has mainly been wandering the streets of the old city of Salzburg and browsing the shops as well as visiting the castle. After […]


E-Day +12, Salzburg, 21:00 hours

Our first trip this morning was to get the bus from the village up to the bridge above Neuschwanstein Castle for photos.  We had decided not to do the actual tour. Again we had perfect sunshine and blue skies. We went up in the first bus of the day with a […]


E-Day +11, Hohenschwangau, 20:00 hours

After having our photos taken for the Hotel Rossli family album, we left our jovial host in Interlaken to head back to Germany today and our stop for tonight.  Little did we expect that we would be crossing 6 borders during the day – though we may have lost count ! […]


E-Day +10, Interlaken, 21:00 hours

WOW, what a day today ! We went to “The Top of Europe” today – the Jungfraujoch – way up at the top of the Alps at 11,333 feet above sea level. First we drove to a town about 15km away called Lauterbrunnen to catch the train up to the […]


E-Day +9, Interlaken, 21:00 hours

So we left Germany today and headed to Switzerland. Our first leg took us toward Basel and the border. Getting to the border was a bit of an anti-climax. We knew we had to buy a “vignette” – a toll tag sticker for the car – and expected some sort of […]