After staying up until 5:30 am listening to the Auburn-LSU game, I got a couple of hours sleep and got up to head for Italy. We got back on the autobahn and headed south. A pretty day and good highway. Our first stop along the way was in Graz, Austria. Harry was driving. We decided to go to the information center and find out how to get to the nearest washeteria to wash clothes. Everything was going well according to the GPS until the very end. That is when things don't go well, the very end. Harry did not take us into a "pedestrian only" zone, but he did drive us into a "no auto" zone. They don't want you driving with the street cars. Linda and Amanda knew right away things were amiss when the local populace were staring at us and pointing. We exited the area as soon as possible and rounded the corner at the police station. We made a left turn and kept going.
After our mission was complete we continued on our journey. We stopped in the small mountain town of Wolfsberg, Austria, home of a German POW camp in WWII at the Wolfsberg Castle, a medieval castle constructed in the 1100's They housed around 38,000 allied prisoners there. It was severely damaged by US bombers. It is now a bier garden
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| No Auto Zone in Graz |
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| Wolfsberg Castle, former POW camp |
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| Jerry & Linda I Wolfsberg |
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| Harry & Amanda in Wolfsberg, also |
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| Harry driving 140 kmh |
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| Wolfsberg castle |
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| Castle stables |
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| Castle entrance |
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| Stables |
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| Where we washed our clothes |
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