Sightseeing frenzy? Certainly Churchtastic

We're still going but, phew, it's been a bit warm the last few days!  What have we been up to?  Having conciously sort of slowed down...,  for some reason it seems that the last few days have been the most intensive sightseeing days so far.  Munich and Salzburg in quick succession kind of knocked it out of us so we had a nice day off yesterday in the busiest campsite of the trip (so far).  We're beginning to hit high season.   I say "day off", which was the plan, but I certainly feel the effects of touch rugby and other games with odd shaped balls, plus a run that somehow took in a 350m climb!  The aching bones of my old body noticed the abuse as we strolled around Innsbruck this morning.

Salzburg is pretty, with a river.  And we went up to the castle on the funicular and did the tour and museum bits - Fran felt spoiled because she implies I don't let her do the touristy things very often, especially if we have to pay!  More churches than you can shake a stick at.

We camped under the Bayern Munich Stadium (Allianz Arena) on Friday night and watched it change colour every 1/2 hour from 10pm, until 1130 when it went back to white and blue and repeated the sequence.  It's pretty impressive when you're up close.

White with blue text, red with white text, blue with white text, then repeat...  all night.  With the corresponding glow in the van.

Park and Ride into Munich, which has a pretty Central area - to be fair most places we've been have pretty bits and they started to blur a while back!  Munich has a very impressive Rathaus in the square, and I climbed up St Peters tower and took some panorama shots of all the spires and sticky uppy bits in the city.  Lunch was beer and a slab of pork roast from the market...  Also had a look at some churches.

We popped in to what is touted as Germany's biggest Camper and Caravan Centre.  It certainly isn't small.  Had a look at a few options, but decided Rufus is all we could want for now :-)  And we couldn't afford the prices they were selling at!  Bought some plastic glasses for all the prickled water we seem to have acquired a taste for.

Then we sort of headed for Innsbruck and found ourselves at the busy campsite with yappy dog and kids and all sorts of distractions that we love so much.  So we thought we'd stay an extra day, as you do.  Made friends with an Irish couple and wiled away a few hours recounting travel tales and passing on suggested places to go.


Innsbruck this morning was pleasant, although the central bit is really quite small and we'd done with it in just over an hour.  We parked really close to the centre, just over the river and on returning were slightly perterbed to find the bridge closed to traffic, police everywhere and our bit of road shut too.  It turned out to be less than sinister, and in fact it was for a bike race (I didn't see Dad in the peleton).  First time I've caught a full on bike race and it's quite impressive, although I don't think the standard was fully out of the top drawer.
Update:  Just been surfing and it was Stage 2 of the Tour of Austria (173.9km).  Dad only did 48miles today, so he wasn't part of the pack. 

We had some rain last night which was refreshing, and nearly broke our awning ;-o but back to 30+ degrees again now.  Came up over the mountains through St Anton this afternoon and broke back into sunshine and are now camped up happily reading, sunbathing, shaving and blogging!

Where next?  We were going to do a couple of mountain passes and go to Italy, but we feel we've seen enough mountains and 12% gradients for a while.  So we're heading into Lichtenstein (you have to if you're as close as we are) and then Switzerland to spend some left over CHF.  Then the black forest for gateau.  Talk soon.

And here's a rockin' sheep for all those who liked the idea of a rockin' moose.  Which, by the way, you can get in most IKEA's - we should know, we've been in a few round europe now!