The Fairy Tale Begins..

Trip Start Aug 30, 2008

Trip End Nov 01, 2008

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Schrock guesthaus

Flag of Germany Marburg, Hesse, Germany
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

And so begins our fairy tale journey, and a good beginning it was. We stayed in a town close to Marburg called Schr�ck (pronounced Shrek - and yep this is where Shrek comes from), but no Ogres. Did see a donkey though and plenty of sunflowers and onions. Did a tour of Marburg, a bit of a University town, the old city is situated on the top of a hill and supposedly has more steps than anywhere else in the world. So like donkey in the movie, we mastered the stairs and checked out the narrow streets. Tried to do this yesterday when we arrived from Trier but copped a fair bit of rain and aborted.

The meals have been awesome but we're being killed slowly with kindness in the shape of food, breakfast in particular has been insane. Every day we've had an abortoir-full of meat, cheese and bread rolls with enough fibre that you could pass through wicker furniture. And yet I can't stop...it's an illness.

Driving through Red Riding Hood country today and then to Sababurg to the sleeping beauty schl�ss.

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