Awww, Austria!

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. No, really today has been much more good than bad. The highlight for me being seeing mountains for the first time in almost a year. This might not seem all that exciting to you spoiled Canadians out there, but England has NO mountains. Zero. They have some large hills, granted, but the south west of Germany and now Austria have proper big rocky jagged beautiful bountiful mountain. Ah, it has made me feel so at home.

The past two days in Munich (Munchen) have been really great as well. We booked a 15 bed room in a hostel and ended up having a 4 bed room with ensuite for both nights to ourselves. We drank 1L beers in a real brew haus called Hofbrauhaus, where we made friends with a few Americans and an Aussie. We walked around a beautiful park; I had no idea Munich had so much nature. And drank at a few more biergartens along the way. We both really enjoyed the city, and I found both Cologne and Munich to be very liveable places. I really liked Germany. Go there.

Also a major highlight so far has been visiting the Neuschwanstein today- it's probably the most impressive castle I will ever see. It's rumored to be the one Disney based all their cases off of. Pretty romantic. Justin had been wanting to see it for a while and we got to do a proper hike up to it which felt really good. It was better than a picture, well maybe just our pictures, can portray.

And then we entered Austria and got pulled over by the police and fined €120. So our budget is blown for a while. To be honest, we knew there was an €8 road tax in Austria, and were fully prepared to pay it, but we thought it would be like a toll booth. Apparently not. You have to buy it at a gas station when entering the country. Stupid tourists.
Anyways our campsite here in Innsbruck is lovely; mountains on one side and a city view on the other. Probably not worth €150, but hey, who's keeping track. (me).

Love you all.
Gen