Posted by Rainer Brockerhoff (away):
A small update from a very small Internet Café in Berchtesgaden (Germany).

Update: In München we also went to see the Körperwelten exhibition a the Olympiapark. This was extremely impressive and I’ll talk about it in detail after we get back…

In München we finally succeeded in straightening out our car rental. Despite my express specification that I would take the car into Eastern Europe, they gave me one without the necessary papers. After some discussion they decided to give me an upgrade to a larger car (a Ford Fiesta), unfortunately again without air conditioning. It seems that no rental company will allow rental VWs, BMWs or Mercedes to drive into Eastern Europe as they wouldn’t last more than a couple of days before being stolen. So only small Fords are available. Oh, well…

This took us most of the day, so we decided to visit the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial which was only 20 Km away. Although we arrived after the official closing time, we were able to walk around the camp and visit some of the buildings. Most impressive and thought-provoking. As always, I’ll post photos aftter we get back.

We slept in Rosenheim, near the Austrian border, and the next day (yesterday) drove into Salzburg. Very interesting, nice parks, Mozart-this and Mozart-that everywhere. Traffic was very confusing and badly signed, having a map helped very little. I tried to drive up to the Rainer Museum but gave up after repeatedly running into dead ends and wrong-way streets.

Because of the heat we gave up on Salzburg and decided to go into the mountains, landing here in Berchtesgaden. We’ve scheduled a visit to the famous salt mines and later in the day will drive back into Austria to see the caves of the Dachstein region.

More later…