Tuesday 9^th of April.

We are on a camp site for a couple of days in a place called Bad Mergenthein, it is overlooking a nice country scene and is very rural, the site reminds us of “Carry on camping” with Peter Butterworth as the camp site owner who looks very shifty and keeps saying “that will be a pound” or in this guy “ that will be a Euro” as it appears everything is an extra.. Lol....

…....................................................................................................................................

Monday 15^th April

On our way to Innsbruck after our stay in Fussen at the end of the Romantic Road, which wasn't very romantic, and I shall re name it the not very exciting but very stressful road, especially when the tom tom decided to roll over and die.

Luckily I have the old Garmin which I use on the scooter but it is a good ten years old and state of art when bought but is very Mickey Mouse compared to a tom tom.. So having fought my way out of a large city using the old Garmin I spied en route what I thought was a German equivalence of a Curry's, so I swung a hard through the oncoming traffic and managed to get in their entrance gate, inside I asked if anybody spoke English to which a young lad said he did, I showed him my tom tom and asked if he had one like it, he took us to a display that had more navigators than you could shake a stick at, and low and behold they had the new version of my old tom tom which would accept the card with all the maps of Europe on, so a quick swap and we were once again in business. That's 270 Euros we didn't count on spending but worth every penny, I mean cent..

So we are sat in a stellplatz in a little one horse town on the German border called Ravensburgh or that is what we thought, actually when we had a walk round it was a very nice place.

After a day down the side of Lake Constance. While parked up in a car park while we had a brew and sorted where we were going next , a car pulled up and a guy started

unloading dive gear, I went over to talk to him if he spoke English, (they all do) it turned out he was an underwater photographer, he gave me a DVD he made of fish and stuff he sees while diving the lake, we will watch it later, he said he has ton's of stuff on u tube.

So tomorrow off into Austria along the Alpine Road the same road JC and co in Top Gear drove the 3 Ferrari's along, should be fun if I can get round the hairpin bends.

The best bit so far by a mile was Fussen, we spent two night on a stellplatz there, got the scooter out of the garage and went on two long rides in the very warm and sunny

mountain roads, we both liked that.

Wed 17^th April.

We pulled into a very nice spot on the way to Salzburg it was a ski resort, obviously empty now as the ski season has ended in this part of the Alps as the snow has just about gone except on the highest mountains, even so the snow around the resort was still piled high where they have cleared the parking lot and there is some snow where it has been packed down by the skiers, there is snow on an outbuilding on a nearby house that is still a good 2ft 6 deep even after all the melting..

I fired up the genny so we could watch Mrs Thatchers funeral on the telly, I was surprised at the amount of stations that was available on the free view, it must have been because it was a beautiful cloudless sky.

Thurs 18^th April.

Now in Salzburg and Sandra has decided we will push the boat out and spend some money so we are booked on a camp site for a couple of days, just so she can do some laundry. We are both showered the laundry's done and it is now 10pm and we are overlooking the city which is all lit up and the mountains have flashing lights on to stop the planes flying into them. Not many stations left there are plenty of news stations but BBC and ITV have now gone

.

In a couple of days we will be making our way into Czechoslovakia, should be fun so lets see what turns up there.  

Sat 20th April.

In Czechoslovakia parked up at the side of a small park and play ground, it seem's a poor country and very dull so we will not be staying but passing through on our way to Poland which we should be in tomorrow Sunday. I can't post any pictures at the moment as I am on a tethered phone and it would cost a fortune to load them, I will wait until we get a free wifi.