The weather today starts out nice. After breakfast the B & B woman, Rose Marie, drives us to a car rental place where we pick up a small Renault for a week. After returning to our room we drive to the Salzkammergut area and have a good hake fish lunch at the Post Hotel in Mondsee. We continue along the shore of the Mondsee, but a bad accident holds up traffic for a while. Getting by the accident we go to St. Gilgen and the St. Wolfgang See, and make an interesting stop in touristy St. Wolfgang to see it’s beautiful church. We go to Bad Ischl, up the Traun valley, and along the Traunsee shore to Gmunden, enjoying very pretty country.
On the way back to Salzburg via the autobahn we encounter heavy rain. The car’s ignition grounds out twice and we have to wait for it to dry. We stop at a service area where a mechanic sprays the ignition and we continue thru heavy rain and past another bad accident to our room and a snack meal.
Yesterday’s rain cleared all haze, and the mountains are crystal clear as we sit on the terrace in a warm sun eating breakfast. We drive up the autobahn thru the Inn Valley to Innsbruck at 65 MPH but most cars pass us like we are standing still.
The Inn Valley is wide and surrounded by steep snow capped mountains. We eat lunch in Innsbruck at an old pension after finding a restaurant Betty had read about, but it is only open at night. We walk around Innsbruck, seeing many tourists sitting in the warm sun at outdoor cafes. We return to Salzburg on the freeway, detouring by the beautiful Achensee up in the mountains. The scenery is exceptionally beautiful this whole day!
It is another warm day as we again eat breakfast on the terrace. Then we drive towards Berchtesgaden, seeing more very pretty scenery, but with some clouds it is not as bright as yesterday. We walk around a small village and then around the center of Berchtesgaden.
After a bowl of soup at a restaurant, we go up to Konigssee which is very crowded with tourists and with shops selling souvenirs and junk. We walk around the lake outlet then go back for a hamburger. We drive up to where Hitler’s Berghof was; now the remaining buildings are a U.S. Army recreation hotel, complete with golf course on very steep hills. (One road is signed as 24 % grade!) We drive thru pretty mountain country, with hang gliders above, and with a stop en route at Hellbrunn Castle, back to Salzburg.
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