Driving through Deutschland

Hi everyone!

I'm so sorry I have been so neglectful about posting. I was writing a Hausarbeit for school (yuck) and then we had Pfinkst Pause (no classes for a week) and my parents came to visit! It was great having them here and I really enjoyed showing them Freiburg, but anyway, lets get right to the good stuff:

We didn't just stay in Freiburg for their week long visit. We drove to Salzburg and Munich where we met up with Josi's family. Vacationing with my parents was a nice change, because now I could go out to eat, rather than living off of Nutella sandwiches, or stay in a hotel instead of a 10 bunk hostel room. 

On our trip we drove from Freiburg to Salzburg then to Munich and back to Freiburg. There was no reason to add to the already difficult task of driving through a foreign country, so we chose to take a GPS with us. Dagmar, as we fondly named the GPS, took us on great routes through southern germany, winding around roads through the Black Forest and the Alps. She did try and trick us a few times though. Once she changed our destination entirely (or maybe that was Mom), and she sent us through so many round-a-bouts my head was spinning. 

We stopped in Lindau on the way, a town on the beautiful lake Constance. And other than that though the drive was really scenic, but pretty normal. 

I'm afraid I'm forgetting something though..... There was one more thing about the drive. Getting through Salzburg to our hotel was a bit of an adventure. After Dagmar sent us in circles for half an hour (that was fun) we found our hotel on a tiny little one way street. As we pulled up to the hotel to drop off our luggage we noticed there was construction at the end of the street and the only path to get through it was about the width of a large sidewalk. Marieanne, the hotel manager insisted that we could drive our car through this narrow path and then around the corner to get to the parking lot. Granted, we were driving a VW Golf, which is not very wide, but to anyone who was watching us (and at this point there were quite a few) there was no way that car was fitting between the construction fence and stone building without losing a bit of paint.

After watching us line it up a few times, Marieanne's dad came out to help and moved the construction fence entirely. I don't know how my dad was able to get through with only inches to spare on each side of the car, a growing group of onlookers, and my mom and I on the verge of tears from laughing so hard at the insanity of the situation. 

But it didn't end there. After making it through the alley, we turned on to a pedestrian street. Now, in my experience, PEDESTRIAN street means no cars, but once again Marieanne insisted that this was the right way. So after dodging people on that street for a while we finally made it to the parking lot. We never moved the car again until we left Salzburg. 

More to come! Sorry this Blog is a little picture-less. I was far too busy laughing to take any pictures. But I'll write more about my trip soon (including what we actually did on the trip).

Bye!