Two beautiful views

We have spent the last two nights in two gorgeous locations. The first on the shores of the lake that the two royal castles overlook. We sat watching the sun setting over the mountains, mirrored in the lake with the castles nestled in the hills fading in the light. Later in the night the moonlight from the full moon paints a white glow on the lake and the castles shine gold and silver behind. It could almost have been the South Island (of NZ), but for the castles.
And last night we arrived in Innsbruck, Austria. We have stopped in a lovely campground at the foot of the Austrian Alps. The mountains rise to around 2,600 metres above us and the valley of the Inns (it’s a river) stretches below. We have decided to spend an extra night having scored an Innsbruck Card. The card let’s us into all the major attractions of Innsbruck, good deal really and sucked us into staying an extra day and night. We have been watching The Sound of Music (only the second evening we have watched a DVD) to get us into the Austrian mood.


And so we have said goodbye to Germany. It was a great time, the Rhine, the villages, the castles and the beer.