It had finally stopped raining when we woke up but after breakfast and while loading the car, it started to spit.

We went back to Lindau to have another look at the town and found a few buildings that were worth the second look.

We finally hit the road, heading towards Frankfurt, just after 10:15AM. It was now pouring and there was slush all over the windscreen, so the speeds were dropped to accommodate the conditions. Then we hit what we presume to be an accident. The GPS won't talk to us in English, but whenever there is a traffic condition update, it burbles at full volume, in German, no matter what I do with the volume control.

We were in a 10+km queue at 15 kph and then found that we were being directed off the motorway. We had no idea where we were going and our GPS kept telling us to get back on the motorway, but that was no good. We followed a few trucks, hoping that they knew where they were going. It was after midday before we finally managed to get back on the motorway, heading in the right direction. At this time, we hadn't covered 100km of the 400km that was required.

Fortunately the rest of the day went OK. The external temperature ranged from 12 to 25C and the weather from squalling rain to brilliant sunshine.

Tonight we are in a cheap B&B hotel, near Frankfurt airport and will have only a short distance to run tomorrow.

That's almost it folks. We have an 11 hour flight to Hong Kong, followed by a 12 hour stop over. We will be going into the city, so you may get lucky and see something about Hong Kong. I see the temperature in 30C. Then it's a 10 hour trip to Auckland and we will be back into the cooler weather.

Above and Below X 2 - Lindau goes in for highly decorated buildings. 

Two churches compete in the square at Lindau.

A pub sign we stumbled upon.

Above and Below - The queue goes on for miles in both directions as we wit to exit the motorway.

No idea where we were going, but it was a pleasant journey.

This piece of roadworks slowed us to 80kph.

The ambulance cruised the motorway waiting for an accident to occur.