Road Trip Day 7 - home, sweet home

We woke up in what turned out to be by far the most luxurious room of our trip. We were staying in a large corner suite of the mansion with gorgeous views of the gardens and it even had a tapestry (!) on the wall above the master bed. Kids didn't care about anything like that as much as they did about a giant TV that they watched while we were getting ready to go down for breakfast. The hotel is pretty cool. It has photos and history of the Trapp family (the original Austrian family from the Sound of Music film) over the walls and some of their old furniture. They even do tours of the house at midday every day. Each room has a theme, and you can even stay in the Sound Of Music suite. Breakfast was served on a giant long table where all guests could sit together. There were some very loud and chatty Americans and a Canadian couple who sat next to us. They were on their two week tour of Europe, and because he is of German heritage they went to his old ancestrial home and stumbled upon an 80+ neighbour who knew his uncle. Very cool story.

After getting Tom to pee in the Trapp family gardens we drove off. We hit some roadworks coming out of Salzburg and a bit of traffic going past Munich. It's been a sunny 25 degree day. We stopped off for lunch somewhere past Nürenberg. Kids played on a playground for a bit and at around 14:30 we set off again. Tom slept for what must have been nearly 3 hours. After he woke we did another quick pit stop and then did the final 2 hour leg of the journey to Berlin with the kids watching cartoons. We walked through our front door at 19:40. Overall it has been a very nice short trip. We got good experience driving with kids over long distances and both agree that it works well despite expectations to the contrary. It was also very nice to get away, albeit for only a week. We definitely want to come back to Croatia again, but next time in proper summer. And... *drum roll*... this concludes my rambling about our trip :)