Dinklesbuhl, Germany
The best adventures sometimes happen when things don’t go according to plan! Here’s a photo of us waiting in Prague Airport for our flight to Cologne.
This is ALL we travel with…no checked bags!
The original plan was to arrive in Cologne at 10 am, pick up our rental car, and drive to Bavaria, a five hour or so drive to our first night’s accommodation. We wanted to stop for lunch in a town somewhere on Germany’s Romantic Road.
The whole town was full of these lovely medieval buildings.
Well, we had a fiasco with our rental car (more about that later) and we didn’t get out of the airport until noon. We put in Dinklesbuhl in the car navigation system, but then decided to scratch the plan since we got such a late start, and go straight to our accommodations in Bavaria. So we reset the destination, and had an arrival time of 6pm.
This was just one roof top!
At about 5:50pm, we discovered we were no where near where we thought we were in Bavaria. Somehow Dinklesbuhl must have stayed on as a via point!
Look for the close up in the next photo.
So, we were lost! We didn’t have a map, so we couldn’t see the big picture of where we were in Germany, compared to where we wanted to go.
We were sad we only had a short time to spend here.
But since we were just a few kilometers away from Dinklesbuhl, we decided to stop and see it.
Notice the tower in the background.
It was an excellent decision!
We definitely want to come back here!
So I jumped out of the car and took some hurried photos.
Look for the close up in the next photo.
It was definitely too short a time for this lovely place!
There were several buildings with paintings on them
Be sure to visit this lovely town!
So then we found a gas station and purchased a map, and proceeded to our destination; another two hours through the beautiful German countryside.
Andy said it was the best driving day of his LIFE!! There was a sticker on our rental car that said it had been tested for 210 kilometers an hour…we were driving at 100mph and getting passed by VWs racing by. Andy said he pushed it to 200 kilometers per hour (120 mph) at one point:) There’s no speed limit on the autobahn, so it was legal!
We arrived at our destination at 8:40pm, much later than expected, but it was a lovely misadventure. We are staying in a lovely little village in a beautiful home we found through Airbnb. Life is good!
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So interested to hear about the rental car situation. We have made no definite decision as yet. Can’t book train out till 90 days in advance and need to know the schedule and costs before we make a final decision. Hoping the train works but the schedule for our 11:50 am departure will have to work as well. Are we pushing it, if we arrive less than 3 hours at the airport for our international flight back to Chicago? (non-stop straight to Chicago – Yeah!) So glad I have you to ask these questions of.
Auto Europe gets a huge black mark from me!! They wanted to charge us 900 Euros for insurance alone! Too long a story to tell here; however, my advice is to make sure you understand how much the insurance costs before you book the car. Three hours ahead should definitely be enough time before your international flight back to Chicago. Have you considered spending the night before the flight in Madrid (if that’s where you are flying out of)?
How many folks can turn a potential disaster into an amazing beautiful adventure?
Who cares? The Global Nomad Family can and I get to follow them. 😀
It helps when one is driving through amazing countryside dotted with lovely medieval towns!!