We left by the wrong road but got a nice photo of the sun breaking through the clouds over the mountains and a very frosty field, before we turned back to get to the right road.
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The sun was out for the morning as we travelled through the mountains (in the Black Forest) through the ski resort of Feldberg. It looked to be a good day for skiing - clear and sunny..JPG)
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Just as we headed out of the skiing areas it clouded over and we moved into mist. We missed a turn off, but made it onto the right road eventually. We stopped for morning tea at a roadhouse at about 12 (no Avon convention this time) where I used a loo that had a wacky seat-cleaning thing. Driving on, we stopped for lunch at about 2pm (a lot of roadhouses have enormous eat-in sections where you can order just about anything you like, from roast dinners, to fish and chips), and then continued on. We passed a bad accident just before we stopped for lunch, where a woman had slammed into the side rail, but amazingly appeared unhurt though the car was completely smashed.We finally made it to Possenhofen by 4pm, only to discover that reception wasn't open until 5pm! We waited around in the ultra modern youth hostel until the staff turned up and then we booked in. Dinner was at 6pm and we attempted to do a load of washing (which for some reason took about 2 hours) and then sat in the bistro, once again waiting for the staff to turn up, while the clothes hopefully dried in the dryer.
Possenhofen is a small town famous for being the home of the castle where 'Sissi', Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, spent her youth. It was also home to Hitler's filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl before she died. We chose to stay at the youth hostel in Possenhofen as a setting out point for day trips to Munich - we didn't want to stay in Munich itself. Our first choice was the youth hostel in Dachau, as we had stayed there on our last trip to Germany, but it was closed over that period.
