Welcome to Germany! We left Ghent this morning to drizzle and clouds and arrived in Germany to sunshine and pleasant temperatures. We are starting to question if you should always trust your gps and now with our route today we are pretty confident you can't! We ended up doing the downtown driving tour of Brussels, Belgium. we found it hard to believe that the majority highway systems around a bug city would take you right in the heart of a city. It was interesting though because parts of the highway run under the city in deep tunnels! If only Toronto could build those...
We have pretty much lost hope of getting our passport stamped at all border crossings now and today was no exception. There wasn't even a sign saying we were in Germany! We just noticed that when we were driving 130km/h and getting past by vehicles going significantly faster that we were in Germany and on the autobahn! It was pretty fun cruising down the road at 170 km/h (don't worry parents...iur VW golf winter go faster than that!). But there are parts where you have to follow the speed limit.
We arrived in ellenz which is in the Mosel river Valley. There are a series if small German villages, most of which seem to have a castle! We're happy to be back in small towns again. We hiked up to the castle in town today and poked around. It was pretty neat especially cool because we were the only ones there. It's called the Berg Metternich if anyone is interested!
Our guesthouse is interesting here as it is an old Bavaria building with bhuda decorations inside! We were greeted by Welcome beers and homemade muffins in arrival and invited for dinner. Mike and I sat in the corner while a table of 10 friends and family of the people who own the house had dinner too! We really wish we could speak but I don't think counting to 10 or singing silent Night is going to make us friends here!
Time for rest now! Tomorrow we head to Nuremberg!
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