We say auf wiedershen to Germany and bonjour to la France

Thursday morning saw us motoring through some spectacular mountain scenery from Innsbruck towards Fusen in Germany.

There was snow down to ground level as we climbed up into the mountains.

We were on the way to Schwongau to visit one of the Bavarian Castles. We chose to visit Hohenschwangau, the castle built by the parents of King Ludwig of Bavaria, Maximillian and Marie. .

From this castle King Ludwig of Bavaria could observe the progress in building his fairytale castle Neuschwanstein on a nearby promontory.

We then travelled towards Stuttgart and found a camping ground at Schomberg
Thusday morning saw us doing grocery shopping with the german locals at a Penny market, a german supermarket.

We then stopped at the nearby town of Bad Herrenalb for lunch and to post some cards and letters home. Bad Herrenalb is the terminus of line S1 from Karlsruhe. Gary thought this was a train line but an interurban type light rail or tram turned up at the station as we were having lunch. As can be seen from the photo we are in the middle of the tram reversing loop but not holding anything up!

We then motored on across the border into France and towards Strasbourg but could not find the camping ground so moved on to Obernai just a few kilometres away.
The camping ground has tr-lingual staff and is just outside a beautiful 13th centrury French village with double wall fortifications and half timbered houses in the old town. Very nice but no photos yet as we did not take our cameras on our walk this evening - naughty us
Tomorrow we plan to visit  Strasbourg for some sightseeing.