Germany Day 9 (Driving a lot!)

One side Switzerland, the other Liechtenstein

Am I in Liechtenstein or Switzerland?

Bondensee

On the road.

What a day today was. We left Innsbruck and went driving to find our next destination and went driving and went driving and went driving. Anne really wanted to go through the country of Liechtenstein, just to say we had been there. It was only a 10 kilometer loop out of our way, so we did. Today we went through 4, yes count them 4, countries. We started out in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and finally Germany. We intended to stay in Switzerland, but they didn't seem all that friendly. We stopped at the first Info Center we saw, which was in Arbon on lake Bondensee and the lady there said there wasn't much to do in the winter and if we wanted the mountains or fun things to do we should go to Zurich or Luzern. That was a bit more south and West of where we wanted to go, so we pushed on. We decided to catch up with the Romantic Road in Germany and when we finally caught up to that we just kept going and going. It was a very long day and I say the hardest we had for the whole trip. We ended up stopping because we were beat, not because we wanted to stop there. We stopped in Augsberg, Germany. It is a big city and well, we didn't like it. All the hotels were booked, it was too late and too big a city to look for Zimmer Frei's, so we finally stopped at the Info center and they found us a place. I will not use the word hotel, so I guess the word motel might fit. It was clean and OK, but I feel we weren't in the best part of town. We were hungry and so we checked into the place and the signs said Christmas Market open, so we went to find it. A couple turn arounds, a red light violation picture and we got there, but it was too late and everything was CLOSED!!!! We were starved because to keep the budget low we had been eating the breakfasts included in our rooms and then not eating until dinner. It was now 8pm and we were starved. We drove around a bit, nothing open we liked, went to the restaurant in our place, it was tacky. There was a McDonalds close, so we hit that and went to bed.