Vegetarian in Bavaria

Having left Antwerp, we headed for Cologne - Milly slept for about an hour but then woke up screaming, I'm not sure she's enjoying all the time in the car - poor wee thing.

After another hours driving we arrived at Cologne, managed to find a park right near the city centre, paid for a couple of hours parking and set off.

For what we managed to see in a couple of hours, Cologne appeared to be a pretty city, with an amazing cathedral. We ended up spending most of our time walking over and then returning on a railway bridge - taking our time to point out all the trains and boats along the way.

We then jumped in the car and headed to Mainz, not much to report about from here - our hotel was on the city outskirts and we never left it to look around.

Probably the only two things worth mentioning was that the hotel appeared to be exclusively occupied by tradesmen (other than us), and that the lobby vending machine served beer! result, I love Germany.

We're currently in Munich, about to start the now familiar routine of packing up and loading the car.

We went into Munich central last night and had a look around, we ended up in the hofbrauhaus - the most famous beer hall in Germany - with litre steins and oompah band and everything - see Milly and I 'Cheers'-ing in the picture above.

We treated ourselves to a bought meal (we've been surviving on bread and things we can cook on our camping stove up till now) - claire and Milly had bratworst and I had kasespatzle - a sort of macaroni cheese - the only vegetarian item on the menu, I think I'd struggle spending more than a day here, if I wanted to have any variety in my diet!

Today we're making our way over the alps to Trieste. We're going to stop in Salzberg along the way and see if the hills really are alive with the sound of music.

Trip in numbers:

Miles since N15: 785.5

length of beard: 1mm