At Last I'm Back In Germany!!!

May 14 2008, 11:51 AM

Hey There It's Kevin, I just got back from the majorly long car ride back to Germany. In Europe there is a Union called the ''European Union'' and this union was formed to improve Europe's Economy. Now that this union is formed I and any other member of the European Union can travel and work in any country that's a part of the union. This union has many advantages, one of them being there are open borders between countries (no passport control), and this makes driving through countries much easier and faster.

Any ways we travelled through Germany (duh) Austria, Slovenia, and lastly Croatia.

Along The way we went to the highest point in Germany: The Zugspitze. It's 2962 Metres High!!! Then we went to the castle Linderhof,( some photos will be put on the side bar) and there was gold everywhere!!! After the castle on the way back instead of going through the alps we went over the highest one in Austria: The Großglockner. There was over three metres of snow on the side of the road! And we saw Groundhogs runnin' up the side of the road away from our car as we approached.

After we made it over we went to a huge man made lake in Kaprun ( A Town in Austria) because it has an insanely huge dam! But sadly it was closed for the day.
Instead we went on this cool hiking trail through a canyon with rapids practically right next to you. It was so beautiful.

On the sides of the trail the canyon went about 75 metres up. Also along the trail were small waterfalls and rives channeling melt water from the mountains into the river/rapids. While hiking on the trail we saw a white butterfly with white wings and on the tips of the wings were orange spots. The little butterfly was taunting us by flying in front of us then flying away and repeating. It was because of this that we named the sweet thing ''Little Demon'.

At the beginning of the trail we saw that it was rated extreme and for experienced hikers only. We wondered why and later on in the trail we saw a cross with a girls name inscribed upon it. She had died on the trail and she was only eighteen years old.

After the trail we moved on to Salzburg. Quite possibly one of the the oldest cities in Europe. We went there to see the birthplace of Mozart and also the fortress in Salzburg. In the Castle we took a tour and saw some cool stuff including various metal masks that would be locked on your head to make you look silly and shame you in front of the whole town. I'll be posting photos of all this everywhere on the blog.

Kevin