After the trip to Konigsee and our unexpected trek, noone had the energy to continue with the other tourist attractions of the place. So, it was straight to bed. The next day we headed to Kehlsteinhaus. The second headquarters of the Third reich, Hitler's summer resort gifted to him
by an admirer who didnt know he was scared of small spaces and heights. The car drives up to OberSalzburg from where you catch a bus. The bus takes you up a steep road which is supposed to be an engineering marvel to the top of a mountain. You walk through a tunnel to get to an elevator drilled right through the mountain to get to the absolute peak. Konigsee on one side, Salzburg on the other, your head in the clouds, your feet on top of the world. The place is majestic. 
I was so lost that I completely forgot to take pics for my blog. This is the only one with noone recognizable. Thats the ferrottes pausing for a breath. After running up and down a bit, we had to head back for our bus and the remaining part of the day in Salzburg.Salzburg - lunch in Hotel Stein - good. City - more Mediterranean than Austrian. Plain cream walls. Lots of platzs, cobbled stone streets however and a whole lot of people playing a whole lot of music everywhere. Saw the gardens forever linked with the 'Sound of Music'. Could practically picture 'I am Sixteen going on Seventeen' and Captain Von Trapp and Maria dancing together. But the best was the liquer we tasted - I had Apple Strudel liquer - and I am still regretting not buying the bottle straight away. By the time I got back after our diaper dash across town, the shop was closed:-(....For all future visitors to town, the shop is very close to Mozartplatz and the ice cream and the liquers are must haves...and I mean...MUST HAVES!! Tasted the apple strudel and something called toppenstrudel - tasty - but a little less sweet for the punj in me though that can be attributed to the place where we had it. Back to bed for a very hectic day ahead.
7:30 in the morning and we were out, headed for Munich and then Colmar. 2 hours and we had covered Munch:-) Marianeplatz, Glockenspiel (another clock though this one was much better than the one in Strasbourg', the walls of the city - Isitor, various churches. One of the churches had pictures of the place immediately after the war. Total destruction - sought of bought back not only the impact of the war but also the determination of the people to have rebuilt it all. The Ferrottes stopped to feed the babe and Tweedledum and I headed to Viktualienmkt - Loved it! I bought lemons and chillis (will post some pics of the chillis). Tweedle had a fish roll, then meat balls, then honey sucksee sweets - loved seeing him enjoy himself:-) Munich has lots of these cuckoo clocks all over. At one road crossing, when it struck ten, a black statue started dancing. That one was really nice, cute actually.
Then the drive to Colmar. Kept waiting for the Black Forest. Got a bit of it - multi-coloured trees and clouds wafting through the car but by the time we got to the beautiful parts, it was dark and had started raining. Tweedledum had a really bad time of it on slippery, mountainous roads. One wrong Ausfarht but other than that we stuck to the right road.
Colmar was another very pretty Alsacien town. What I will remember however is the kugelhof and the Tarte flambees we had for lunch. C'etait la vie!!! Petite Venise - very pretty. The church tops even lovelier. Will try and post some more pictures. I love Riesling!!!But somehow Colmar fades in comparison with what was to come. On the way back one highway led to another and another. We just kept chatting and going along...and then we reached a toll and she charged us a little lesser than she should have, which rung the alarm bells in my head. What do you know. We were to go to Fonty and we had reached Lyon!!! How I love Tweedledum...and the Ferrottes too. Not a word of recrimination. Just laughter, turned the car and headed back home.....
...the things I need to learn.
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