We had the fun of navigating through Munich’s fairly awful one way systems, and as it is a German city is was full of BMW and Mercedes drivers.

It was about a ten minute walk to the start of Burg zu Burghausen, which is a kilometre long, on the hill above the old town of Burghausen.

We walked around a fair bit in old town and saw Mozarts Geburtshaus, his birthplace, though we didn’t go in as the crowds were thick outside the building.

We saw quite a few castles on our drive, but it was only on the same exit as for our hotel that we saw the signs for the ice caves and the castle that had encouraged us to come out to Werfen.

We had decided the evening before that we would go straight to the Alpen Zoo in Innsbruck, which is slightly out of town and had its own parking.

There is no ceremony when you enter the Principality of Lichtenstein; there is a flag and that is about it. It is only later if you explore Lichtenstein you learn the importance of their flag.

Whilst eating, i happened to stumble on the fact that the Cabaret Voltaire was 2 minutes walk away, the home of Dadaism, and should be open and serving including Absinthe.

We could tell just from walking to the hotel that Fribourg was even more hilly than Lausanne had been and we’d be getting a lot of cardio on our explorations.

We attempted to take the more scenic route, despite the torrential rain, but the sat nav seemed to bring us along with a more indirect course, away from the water's edge that we had intended to follow around the coast.

A two week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich.Our original plan was do do a sunset cruise on the lake.

The bottom end of Switzerland is very narrow, and it was only fifteen minutes from the south border with Italy to the northernmost border with France and the small village of Meyrin, CERN’s location.

A two-week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich.

A two week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich.

Aosta feels nestled in the mountains, and the peaks rise above it in a very prominent way. At dinner, I watched the moon move sideways across the peaks before disappearing behind the buildings. Being here, you can understand in some way why the Romans were so progressive in their approach. The mountains reach the stars, and you can climb a mountain.

A two week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich.The road was actually a highway all the way up to Fenis but it cut through beautiful landscapes.

A two week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich. In a relatively small town like Turin many places are still shut on Sundays.

A two week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich. Whilst we had a drink in Monaco, we figured out our next stop, we wanted to be in Turin the following evening and didn’t want a long drive that afternoon.

A two-week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich.. Monaco is only 9 kilometres from Nice, but they are a windy, slow kind of kilometre. They run along the coast road and give some great views of the incredibly wealthy,.

The next morning, we got up early to check-out and collected the car; an Alfa-Romeo Giulia. We’d confirmed we could leave it in the parking garage for a few hours while we explored a bit of Nice.