Day 29, 19th September Hohenschwangau to Regensberg Germany

 We had a lovely breakfast then loaded our bags into the car and headed to the gondola that takes you up the mountain, it has great views on the way of the Neuschwanstein castle and valley. Was a quick trip and provided amazing views of the valley, castle and also all the towns around it after taking some pics we jumped back in the gondola to get our car and take a few more pics in the town before heading for Regensberg.

We booked into a nice hotel just on the edge of the old town and once we had put our bags in the room we were off to explore. It’s a beautiful old town full of so much history, we looked at the 12th century Stone Bridge that crosses the Rhine, and on the banks next to it Historische Wurstkuche which is a restaurant that has been consistently in operation since 1846AD, it was originally owned by the city but they sold it in 1806 and the descendants of the family who purchased it, still own and run it today. We also went to St Peters Cathedral which opened in 1520 we couldn’t go inside it was closed so off to Porta Praeoria which is the remains of a Roman Gate from 2nd century AD.

While attempting to find another church which we could see the spires of through a lot of foliage we ended up driving through a gateway that we thought was the gardens to the church to, our surprise we quickly realized we were in a very large cemetery. The tracks were quite small and crossed themselves numerous times which made getting out very hard. We kept finding gates, but they were all locked and we tried asking for help from the few people we saw but they couldn’t really understand us, and one said they had never seen a car in there so we think the tracks were actually walking tracks. We persevered and I think more by luck than anything else managed to find the open gate.

So back to the hotel we went, now then things continue to go wrong we decided to go out for dinner as the restaurant at the hotel is closed and not anything else nearby. We found a great restaurant Kullmans that’s an American Diner and has been around since 1924 the food was lovely so were the drinks. When we went back to the car we realized that we had a flat back tire and no spare, it was quite a rip in the side wall think it might have happened when we hit a kerb on the way to dinner.  So started an extremely long series of phone calls as no one at Europcar in Germany would do anything until we spoke with Europcar in Italy then we had the problem of them both saying we needed to speak to the other one again, after about 2 hours a town truck arrived and towed our car away. The we couldn’t get a taxi but a young guy working in the service station next door used his phone and rang one for us by now it was almost midnight.  Time for Bed.



















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