During my travels, I always try to keep records of the main events that happened. per day. Sometimes I write very little, and sometimes, to the detriment of rest and sleep, I write a lot of information and even my impressions of the place where I visited.
From travel diary entries in Germany and Austria.
They found a way to Tyrol, today we are in Austria. Overboard gray and light rain, maybe more will fly ... Among the rocks we notice an unusual flow of water, a bridge over it.
We stop. This is the Lech River of an unusual milky-jade color, a rocky channel
forms a man-made stepped waterfall, beautiful!
Our car has two teenagers, look at the numbers, smile and greet us, they say:
“Oh! Russland!”, You probably don’t often see a car with Moscow license plates here.
On the former border we buy a vignette for the right to drive on Austrian roads, costs 7.60 euros
for 10 days. The clouds disperse, the peaks of the mountains lit up by the sun. We are going to Innsbruck.
The road goes along the mountain, in the lower left a valley with tiny houses and solar panels on the roofs, on our level gray shreds of clouds, and on the opposite mountain destroyed
Castle - Fernstein. At the next peak is snow, in the spurs of the mountains either fog or clouds.
Ears lays from a height. Spring has just come to these parts - apple trees and lilacs are blooming.
We drove into the tunnel - 3168 meters, cool, the road went down in zigzags. River below emerald green color. A series of large and small tunnels. From the mountains descended into the valley beauty! Diving into the world of a traditional Austrian village, like an open-air museum the sky.
Two hours later, we checked out of the Hotel Alpen Stueben to Hohenschwangau to Innsbruck.
Colored houses are located in the ring of mountains, an empty rocky channel passed along the bridge rivers.
The old city, center, parking can not be found, everything is busy. Kirche, the shopping arcade finally found
the place. It is full of people, it turns out today is a holiday - City Day, so in the square
an orchestra is playing, all the ladies are given a rose, and in the church there is a wedding.
We drank a cup of aromatic coffee with apple strudel, yummy!
Let's go further, today we have a meeting with friend Willy, we have two days at his disposal.
Ahead of Jenbach, from afar in the greenery of the mountain is the castle of Trazberg.
Trazberg Castle - XV century, stands above the Intal Valley, was built as a hunting castle for the Kaiser Maximilian, now privately owned.
There are daily tours with an audio guide in 8 languages other than Russian.
Half an hour later, on the top of the cliff, a 13th century castle - Kufstein, was previously used as a defensive fortress with thick walls, towers and a long underground passage,
into which those who wish are allowed! Now the castle is the city museum of Kufstein.
The funicular lifts the mountain, they give a description card in Russian with a ticket.
When we arrived at the meeting place, he called what would happen in 20 minutes. We are waiting.
The Tyrolean Alps are unusually picturesque! Ranges like giant stone crests go away into the sky, and from the crevices small waterfalls flow clear streams of water.
Willy rushed to the Audi, leave your car and fly to Berchtesgaden, to the Fuhrer’s dacha, the main thing is to get in time in the penultimate group of tourists in order to
there was time to see everything there.
Further note - "Eagle's Nest" in the Alps
We drove down quietly, took the car to the hotel.
Settled in a restaurant to Wilkin’s friend of William - Rudolph Rudy.
The restaurant is exclusive, made of old logs in a rustic style, which is very fashionable now in Germany and Austria, from a former barn, decoration with real manger, canopy, stoves, firewood, benches and a stall window of real cows.
There, the well-fed Milky chew the grass and look at the visitors, and they look at them.
By night, it is not known which of the two groups has a more bestial look ...
Rudy was very happy with his friend, fussed, treated him, and only after midnight did he sit down at our table.
Business is business! Rudy is a true Aryan, I easily imagined him in uniform ...
We ate garlic soup and dishes from various game: roe deer, deer and someone else, translated into Russian, as - a capricorn. White asparagus in a creamy sauce - very tasty, in early May, just the season. Then we bought home a special saucepan for asparagus and tweezers, only there is no such plump asparagus in Moscow, all green tormented tops.
They drank red wine for meat.
For dessert, Kaisershman jam pie, very tasty, and cheese and pineapple upstairs and strawberries. Then Vilka said that after a meal the Germans always drink schnapps, which is very conducive to digestion, so that everything "falls on the shelves."
In our opinion, this is "for the road!". Then Vilka and Rudy sang in their German, then we are in Russian Katyushu.
In general, we got tired, at 3 a.m., I called on the people to disperse,
Rudy looked at me - in the glasses of his glasses the flames of Auschwitz furnaces flashed ...