Day Twenty Eight

DAY TWENTY EIGHT

We woke at 5.45am this morning and planned to leave between 7 and 7.30am for Frankfurt. Michael left us this morning for work in a town not too far from Salzburg. We have had a super time with him and enjoyed his many jokes and strange photographic poses and will miss his company en route to Germany. We have been so busy in Salzburg that I had forgotten to load Lorraine with the route to our final venue in Frankfurt. I tried to connect Lorraine to the laptop but I think due to the cold weather and the fact that Betsy’s heating was off last night, Lorraine just wasn’t prepared to acknowledge the laptop. The nett result being that the laptop ran out of battery power and we were forced to check into the hotel again to connect to AC Power and then managed to get Lorraine up at around 7.45am. What a way to start our final voyage in our epic journey.

The blessings of the lord were on us again today since the entire route was without rain or snow and although it was cold outside, the trip was uneventful. We stopped for a coffee and breakfast at around 10.00am and then pressed onto Frankfurt. We arrived at the hotel were we are to stay for the next 2 days at 1.45pm and are nicely settled in our room. The shortage of campsites during the past week have been quite frustrating but the hotel room we are now occupying is nicely appointed and has wireless – FREE internet. There are 30 TV channels – 1 in English – CNN.

We have the day free tomorrow to clean the van – inside that is – or to do whatever we fancy. You may be asking, Betsy is a rental, why clean the inside, well if we don’t they will charge us 155 Euros. We have experienced first hand just how expensive it is to travel in Europe. That said and done, its going to be great to have the time tomorrow to pack our luggage and to give Betsy a nice clean out.

I plan to make a dinner of Ravioli and meat balls with tomato sauce – the last dinner in Betsy, followed perhaps by a movie.