Day 28

Oberstaufen to Grundlsee

In the book I’m reading (The Historian) the characters travel around a lot and one of them makes the observation that when on holidays she gets great joy out of going to places she’s been before, as we all do, because we relate to the familiar. And that’s the way we feel about Grundlsee. It was so hard to leave Oberstaufen in all its snowy glory but Grundlsee was well worth it (plus its snowing here too so no down side really).

We were planning on visiting Munich but changed our minds at the last minute and visited Dachau instead, just 10 miles on from Munich. It was a very sobering couple of hours walking in the footsteps of so many doomed souls, from the spot where they disembarked the trains, through the registration, delousing, shower rooms; across the assembly area to the barracks; down the central walkway to the infamous incinerators.  It is a huge site that is all museum now with four churches and a nunnery attached. I don’t know what I was expecting but even now 60+ years on it had the power to make me sick to my stomach. I won’t put up too many pics – not exactly feel-good stuff.

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MGM is not a fan of this type of tourism, he’s too kind to confront barbarism, but patient as always he waited while I looked, then drove for 3 hours to Grundlsee. We made one quick stop at a servo - for food not petrol – these servo are amazing you can get anything at them but you do have to pay to pee this time it’s me who’s NOT a fan!

We drove through some of the most glorious scenery you’ll ever see and were very happy to start seeing some familiar names, Bad Ausee especially. And now we’re here

For those of you who know this place we’re right at the front in the block over looking the lake ( and the flying fox) closest to the restaurant (which you can see above and where we ate dinner tonight).

So exciting… look at our rooms