Augsburg

It rained sporadically on the drive from Bled to Augsburg in Germany. The rain fell in those hard sudden summer showers that make driving visibility difficult. We ate lunch at one of those expensive roadside cafés which I hate. But self catering wasn’t an option today. €34 for lunch, a bit exxie in my book.

The plan was to drive towards Munich and wherever we were around 2pm we would start looking for a hotel. Well at 5pm we were still driving around looking for a hotel. Usually there’s always hotels on the outskirts of town as you drive in. Maybe we were in the wrong part of town. The tourist office offered us a dorm room at the youth hostel which we initially declined but later ended up going back to because we couldn’t find anything else.

The youth hostel room was ok apart from the rampaging young folk banging on doors and hollering up and down the hallways. The breakfast was as good as any hotel breakfast we've paid 14 euros for. We scored a free carpark at the front of the building and we only brought up what we needed for the night rather than lugging suitcases up 4 flights of stairs. I guess you could say it was a learning experience. I learned that I never want to stay at a youth hostel again!

Augsburg is full of people riding their pushbikes all over the place. It’s great to see a city really set up for cyclists. The footpaths and roads all have a separate marked bicycle lane. I wonder how safe it is to ride a bike amongst all that traffic.