Day eight and nine

Day 8 Wednesday 7th April.

The sun is out, the sky is blue and was feeling a lot more cheerful today.
Headed into town and, be still my beating heart, everything is open. Are we the only people in the world to come to Germany and find it closed?
Tourist info had Internet access so we could reply to few emails, found a smoky internet café with wi-fi and posted the blog. We feel connected again.
Had an indifferent lunch at an amazing hotel perched high above the Rhine, see picture, while looking down on Eagles and Crows dive-bombing each other.
The obligatory trip to the garage where our spirits soared when we saw our car on the forecourt, at least it had moved. Only to be utterly crushed when they announced MAYBE FRIDAY.
That was too much for me. Throwing my hands into the air (the international signal for exasperation) and through gritted teeth reminded them we have been waiting for five days! (suddenly they understood English)
What an amazing reaction, they rushed to our car, poked, prodded, took it for a test drive, presented us with a bill for Euro 300 and said ”Auf Wiedersehen” pet.
Two very happy bunnies drove back to the camp to prepare for an early departure the next day.
We had been unable to find a new spare tyre for the wang. Our very sweet camp commandant was not at all happy, saying it was bad for his heart for us to drive such a long way without a spare, so he gave us his, from his own van, what a star.

Day 9 Thursday8th April

8am departure, were off, yippee. God, driving a carawang is so boring; life at 50mph is not for me. Made good, if slow progress across Germany and into Austria, scenery immediately more dramatic and beautiful. Slow chug up the Brenner Pass, an amazing feat of engineering then into la Bella Italia. We could see the mountains and smell the snow.
Off the motorway and onto the mountain roads. So scary. Narrow roads, hairpins bends, very steep plus bonkers Italian drivers. Thank god for Tena for men.
At one point we had the most amazing view down miles of mountain road chocked full of cars crawling along, wondered if there had been and accident and realized with a sudden chill the hold up was us.!So exited to be in the mountains at last. Arrived at 8pm and set up the wang in a lovely spot under the pine trees and fell into a deep sleep.