Koblenz to Cologne - West Germany - 25.4.1070

 The Rhine at Koblenz.

A Castle in the distance and a train closer up, (surprise, surprise, must have been David taking the photo this time)  en route north along the Rhine from Koblenz to Cologne.
David has written our fuel record on the back of this page, it says...
'... up until 2nd Speedo cable break (time to get back!)
Itinerary miles:  3,649
Miles to cable break:  3,760       Total 111.2 Gallons =  33.3 miles per Gallon'
(In metric measurements:    6,016.3 Kilometres  = 505.96 litres  = 11.89 Kms per Litres.)

We were heading out of  West Germany as fast as we could, we didn't take many photographs unfortunately, only 11 in one week which is sad, we weren't comfortable at all and we do get tired touring all that time and in a postcard I see that we'd only managed to get 8 showers in 7 weeks, not much fun but it was Winter so I guess it wasn't as bad as it would have been in the heat of summer in Australia :-)

We've never been back to this part of, the now combined Germany, maybe we should it looks such a beautiful country.

Beyreuth to Koblenz to Cologne and heading to Amsterdam in the Netherlands

Bayreuth - West Germany - 24.4.1970

 We met up with Doug and Frankie in Bayreuth, (we'd met them in Venice) who were American Teachers working at the US Military Base in Bayreuth.  Doug made us some ice cream using a hand turned ice cream maker and lots of ice and lots of salt.  We'd never seen anything like this and their recipe of cream, creme de menthe, chocolate chips and marshmallows was something I've never forgotten and I've sort of copied over the years using an ordinary tub of vanilla ice cream, peppermint essence, chocolate chips and mini marshmallows    :-)  Delicious!

 Kennedy - Allee Frankfurt A.M.  (Wolfgang Zimmerman't Place)

 Nuremberg to Beyreuth.  Unfortunately Google Maps haven't done Street Scenes in all of Germany, none here in Beyreuth.

Nuremberg - West Germany - 20.4.1970

Remnants of the 13-14th Century Town Walls in Nuremberg, with a Grab photo below from Google Maps, taken today.  How wonderful to be able to get some street scenes from Google again - at last - since we left Italy a few weeks ago Google haven't Street Mapped Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Hungary and only a little of Austria.

Berchtesgaden to Munich to Nuremberg.

Berchtesgaden, West Gemany - 20.4.1970

 Just over the border from Austria en route to Berchtesgaden.  Almost the first minute we drove into Germany we were rudely abused on the Autobahn.   Trucks tried to run us off the road, cars beeped rudely... it was a shock that's for sure.

Were they like this because we were driving a London Taxi and they thought us British?  We had the AUS sticker on the back and the white Kangaroo on the side, maybe they didn't like Aussies.

Was it because we were too slow?  Maybe the latter we thought but we were keeping up with the limit, not racing way over like they were.

We never met a friendly German the whole time we were here, not like in every other European country we'd been in where locals waved, willingly helped us, offered us advice and willingly gave us a smile.  Anyway we tried to stay off the main roads but that was difficult.

I wonder what it's like now are the Germans kinder to their tourists I wonder?

 Berchtesgaden, Hitlers Adlerei Eagles Nest in the nearby mountains.

 Tyrolean Sunday best!

 Above Berchtesgaden looking towards Reichenahll and Munich.

 Camping spot, off the road from Berchtesgaden to Munich.

Salzburg, Austria to Berchtesgaden, West Germany.