It was foggy, cold and rainy. Graham met us at the townhouse and we literally headed for the hills. Heiligenberg to be exact, which means holy mountain. Apparently this mountain was used a lot by pagans in the past. Heidelberg is in a valley surrounded by high hills. We drove up and up through heavy mist to the top and then we got out to walk. The fog …
Early morning saw us leaving Catania. The streets were almost empty except for the cars parked everywhere to the point that a car could barely squeeze through a two way street. We flew into Frankfurt on RyanAir. It took quite a while to get our bags. It was grey, cool and drizzly outside. The German autobahns have no speed limit. John was doing 140 Km per hour in the …
We had barely scratched the surface of seeing Munich so we cancelled our tickets to Neuschwanstein Castle ( which is a two hour train ride each way). The day was sunny but cool. We got to the train station just in time to see our train leave. We seem to always just miss our train going in to Munich. We went immediately to Marienplatz where we watched the Glockenspiel …
It poured rain all night and was still dull and rainy in the morning. Thank goodness there are beer tents. I decided to take the big feather out of my Octoberfest hat because of the rain. It was also suggested by Graham and John that I take off the mini tin tart foil that I had replaced a lost button with at an Octoberfest celebration in the 80s. It …