A Fat Adventure!: If it's salmon, give the signal.

On arrival at the Harz mountians we checked into the most deserted hostel in Germany. The hostel owner seemed rather excited when we asked him the best way to the mountains and started talking about hiking, so we failed to mention we'd be doing some slightly more efficient 'hiking' and bear spotting in the car.
But first, dinner! Beginning to slightly miss British food we though it would be fun to attempt to order a Chinese takeaway and after some swift googling we found one down the road.
A quick drive through the lovely picturesque town, with token castle in the mountains and winding roads, we found our Chinese! Only to discover it was closed :(
after another quick drive we found schnitzel sandwiches from the garage. Not quite the same, but food none the less.
So then to the mountains! We drove around for about 2 hours, through thunder and lightning, down some tiny roads, listening to a German radio station playing Michael Jackson tributes, with a short schnitzel stop in a parking spot. What could be make this any better?! A bear, that's what. Sadly the bear we saw and swiftly pulled over to watch turned out to be a boar. Not quite the same, but still exciting!

On arrival in a small town called Golsar we discovered the fair was in town! An opportunity not to be missed. Being a German fair it was well organised with more bars than actual rides and even a roller coaster and log flume. Not sure how much we trusted a roller coaster that spends half its live on the back of a lorry we gave the rides a miss. After all that it was time to head home.

Day two in the mountains we went for another nice long drive through the forest, aiming eventually for the town of Hameln in orded to drive down the 'Fairy Tale Road'. The fairy tale road is where the brothers grim wrote many of the classic fairy tales and sounded like lovely drive. Hameln, famous for the pied piper, in particular was described as a "quaint, ornate town on the Wesser river". Sadly the book failed to mention Hameln's similarity to Banbury, and the fact it was in fact just another medium sized town with a faint historical background. The "line of white rats drawn on the pavement" appeared to have been made out of white chewing gum about ten years ago. A quick fruit tea, and we'd had enough!

After a drive down the beautiful 'Fairy Tale Road' we headed for Frankfurt.
About 5 hours later we found a road called the same as the road which out hotel was on, only apparently not the right road. Sadly we'd failed to write down the name of the hotel too, so we went into several hotels to ask if they had any reservations under the name 'Randerson' or even Angus?!
We eventually found the right Niddastrasse across a main road and through an alley way and checked in!

Sleep, check out and off to Luxembourg!
We decided to add a 5th country to the adventure and made a slight detour into France on the way and after an afternoon of driving made it to our Luxembourg hotel.

We're planning on spending a slightly more relaxed 2 nights here and inventing a stereotype of Luxembourgians!