Saturday 4 October

Dawned bright and sunny… eventually. Bit late getting going! We had intended to go into Garmesch-Partenkirchen but it’ll still be there next time. So once on the road, first task is restock the larder at a handy Aldi, then continue the Deutsche Alpenstrasse to where it meets the Romantische Strasse and the castles of King Ludwig.

Which road did you say to take?

More Bavarian Alps

Low cloud!

But on a Saturday of a public holiday weekend? Not unexpectedly we couldn't get near the place so pulled into the parking by the nearby church where we stopped before and had lunch. The nearby stellplatze we noticed was full so an executive decision was made – carry on the Alpenstrasse. We’re not sure where the two routes diverged, in fact we’re not sure we were still on either of them because the signs became non-existent and we relied on the town names to follow.

Lunch stop - it's actually a World Heritage site

But not to worry, the roads were fine, the scenery was still great and the sun was shining, although we did still encounter the odd low cloud. It appeared that Herr German was out and about with his family still so we were concerned that finding somewhere to stop overnight might be a tad difficult. Thus we started to investigate likely looking places along the way.

Ammergau mountain - as in Oberammergau, the Passion Play place

One of many mountainscapes

There's a hang-glider in there somewhere!

On one such investigation we managed to take a wrong turn and end up going the wrong direction, however Bren spotted a couple of stellplatz about 5km off our route so thought we’d have a look. The first was quite busy but had space so, on the basis we’ll get while the gettings good, we found a nice spot and settled in.

It turned out the place was bigger than we had first thought and the reception office was in a building we didn’t see. However the man was very nice about it when he knocked on our door later in the evening!