In the Munich Town Square - Marienplatz
We came here to meet our guide to take us to Dachau.
This is the sculpture right out front of the Dachau Museum. For those who don't know, Dachau was a Concentration Camp - also an extermination camp. Not as famous as Auschwitz, but it was the model that all Concentration Camps were based on, including Auschwitz. It was so sad there.
We were picked up from Munich by Grega, our driver. He came all the way from Ljubljana in Slovenia to pick us up. That day the poor guy drove for about 10 hours. Jackie and I were smitten - he was soooo cute. His photo really doesn't do him justice! He was very nice too - so it was worth being in the car with him for 2 days! : )
He drove very fast in Germany as the speed limit on the Autobahn is 130km/hr - you can go faster and you won't get booked, but if you have an accident going faster than 130, your insurance won't cover you. Apparently this has only recently become the case. The Citroen we were in certainly wasn't made to go 130, but Grega and Martin (he drove us back to Frankfurt from Ljubljana) got it up to over 170km/hr - we were consistenly passed at this speed mostly by Beamers, Mercs and Audis. They would be much nicer to drive those speeds in. Here is our car - we were waiting to go into a tunnel that had road works going on in. It was almost 8kms long! An incredibly long tunnel.
This is the view of Ljubljana from the top of the Castle. In my opinion it is a beautiful city. You can see the Alps right along the north of Slovenia, and the sea along the west. I would love to go back to Slovenia.
That night we went to a traditional Slovenian restaurant and Ben ordered the Florentine Steak:
We had never seen a piece of beef that big (ever!) and so a couple of days later I asked Rok (our guide) what Florentine Steak was, and he said that it was horse. Ben turned a lovely green colour! He said that it tasted just like beef and he liked it so much he wanted to get right into the bone! Poor Mr Ed.
The second day in Slovenia, Rok took us northwest to a Village called Bled. It is so beautiful! There is a little island in the middle of the lake that has a church on it. We were rowed over there as there are no motor boats allowed on the water. It is such pure water you can see the bottom all the way until it gets too deep. In the deepest part of the lake it is 30 meters deep. In summer the lake is a huge tourist attraction and so we went at the right time! It was such a lovely place to go.
After Slovenia we were driven to Salzburg in Austria. We had been to Salzburg before in the dead of winter. This time it was lovely to see green grass and blue skies. This is the view from on top of the Fortress.
That night we went to the oldest restaurant in the world. It has been a restaurant since 803AD. Mate we don't have anything like that here!
So there was a very quick tour of our Europe trip. Hope you enjoyed it!
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