Today was another quiet one. Db not feeling great. We think the craziness of the last few weeks has caught up with him and we need a rest day. The plan for the day was to drive to Zugspitz Mountain (the highest mountain in Germany 2962m) do a cogwheel train up, cable car across the glacier at the top, have a look around maybe a hike then cable car down. The mean yearly temperature there for the year is -4.2′. So off we went through some lovely scenic countryside, over the border in to Austria. The only thing that changed was the colour of the road right on the border. Houses changed a bit but the size of the alps and views were extraordinary. I was awake this time where as in 2014 when we drove into Austria I was in La-La land. We stopped in a little town near Garmisch-Partenkirchen (which DB nick-named Simon and Garfunkel) and had a little look around . Very quaint. Then on to Zugspitz Mountain. We knew before we left Füsson that the weather was probably not going to be great for the journey up but thought the mist might break at some stage during the day. When we arrived it was very bleak up the top so we went for a walk around the picturesque Eibsee (a lake at the foot of the mountain). It was very beautiful. We could have gone for a hike down in this area but weren’t really up for it today. We kept an eye on the mountain peak for a couple of hours but it seemed to get more and more fogged in. Final decision was to give it a a miss this time as we saw yesterday how little you could see through the mist.

We headed home after lunch via Austria again and passed a suspension rope bridge spanning the valley up at a vertigo-inducing height, bringing together the Ehrenberg Ruins and Fort Claudia. The pedestrian suspension bridge is called “highline179″. We just took a picture and then came home for a  much needed Nanna nap.

The weather here is forecast to be rainy for the next week so we are not sure where to head to next. So until next time I write, in who knows where, I say good night.