After trying to coax it back to life, without any success, I decided to call my mom, in Budapest and ask if we could come a few days early if we couldn't get the GPS to work. I couldn't get my cell phone to work. I finally found a phone booth and tried my calling card. Yep, you guessed it, it wouldn't work either. Both were purchased in France, and I suspect need a different code than I've been using. I'll try and find a dealer for my sim card and see if he can tell me the trick to make the phone work.
We had a second straight day of heavy, steady rain, and we're both getting tired of it. After six weeks of traveling around, all the castles and churches seem to blend into each other. It's not much fun standing in line to go into an attraction, usually after walking some distance from the parking lot, in the pouring rain. It's certainly not as accommodating over here as it was in England. There, in most cases our "Handicapped" sticker got us a special spot close to the facility, and often even a ride to or through the attraction. There were at least two castles where Jan got a ride to the top of the hill, and after walking around in the castle, a ride back down. Here we haven't found it so accommodating. And it takes away a lot from the attraction.
We're getting to the point where we want a rest from all the travel, and a chance to sort out what we've seen. We have actually talked about returning the car a few days early and taking the train to Budapest to visit my mom for a few days longer than planned. If I can sort out my phone problems tomorrow, we'll call mom and see if that works for her. Jan's getting tired and sore from all the walking, and as most hotels we've stayed at do not have a bathtub, only a shower, she hasn't been able to soak her sore hip, each night, and it just gets worse the next day.
The next blog might come from Budapest rather than somewhere in Germany. That's it for now.
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