The Rest of Europe....

so. today we are off on another adventure! We bought camping gear, and are now going to camp for the rest of the trip!! we have bought proper hiking shoes, and a little mountain tent, a little gas cooker and some unbreakable cutlery and dishes, and today we leave Munich for a little town called Garmisch Parten-Kirchen. It's at the foot of Germany's highest mountain - The Zugspitze! We are going to get a steep little cog railway up the mountain - because we are too inexperienced to hike it :(. We are very excited though, and have been planning in Munich here for about two weeks now....we are staying at the bottom of the mountain for a couple of days, then moving onto an even smaller town called Fussen - where the castle that inspired Disney's Cinderella castle lives! So we will camp on the lake there, and visit Cinderella's castle, and then we head to Austria. We have got an awesome little package booked in Innsbruck - the hiking capital of Austria! We have 4 nights camping booked, along with a visitor card that gives us access to everything in and around the town, including the Cable car and funicular railways up the mountain. We can even go to the zoo. From Innsbruck, we will be making our way down to Italy, and camping our way from Verona, down the North East coast - including Venice, Ravenna, Rimini etc. Then we go to Rome for a few days, and then down to Naples and Pompeii. We have ridiculously cheap flights back to Munich from Naples.

Then - depending on how we cope - we have planned the biggest leg of our trip! We will hopefully be departing Munich again on the 15th July (or near), and going to Norway. From Norway we hope to get a boat to Iceland. Yes, Iceland. We will camp our way around the island for a week, and stop also on the Faroe Islands for 2 days, on the way back to Norway. Then we have a few weeks to camp our way through Northern Norway following the coast to the Arctic Circle, and then through Sweden to Northern Finland. We will visit Santa's real house, and then head South to Helsinki. From there we ferry to Tallinn - Estonia, where we have another 3-4 weeks to camp and explore.