From Tyrol to Berlin

Return trip in the fog

Sunday September 6, 2020
16°C After the thunderstorms and torrential rains of the night, the fog hangs thick in the valley.

When the alarm clock rings at 5:15 a.m., it is not yet visible as it is still pitch black. I have blueberries and yogurt for breakfast, make two rolls for the trip and pack the last things. Wash again, take out the garbage, and at 6:50 a.m. I start rolling in Außerkreith.

The navigator says 749km and about 7 hours of driving. It's raining and the weather is really awful. There is a lot of mud on the road to the highway that has been washed down from the slopes.

Since it is Sunday, there is hardly any traffic on the highway heading east. After about an hour, I pass through the empty border crossing into Germany without any checks.

15km after the border, you can get a corona test. Since there is not much going on there either, I take advantage of the offer. The journey is smooth. There are only two cars on the right edge of the road before I pass them quickly, until there is a traffic jam there, which is announced shortly afterwards on the radio.

After 7 hours and 10 minutes, I drive into my driveway in Berlin. 😊 The 10 days in Tyrol were really nice. The weather could have been a little better, but then I probably would have eaten even more Kaiserschmarrn on some alpine huts 😋😝.