The farmer said “You came up that hill, in that car?” and then when I said “I am looking for the Pfiefhofer Porsche Museum” he looked at us like we were truly insane and said the famous words “Sie konnen dort nicht von hier” – (“you can’t get there from here”).

It all comes back to the navigation. When the Garmin quit we decided (as good sailors) to simply take the latitude and longitude coordinates of the museum waypoint from the Garmin and put them in the car navigation system. However they were WRONG. We left the highway as instructed and went up smaller and smaller roads up the side of the hill down to just about as wide as the car until we came to the point where the three cars and tractor parked in the road led us to think something might be a bit off.

After some laughter with the farmer and his English speaking son we went back down the hill and simply entered Gmund 9853 into the nav system et voila, there we are in 10 minutes. No sir, no starving to death on a deserted logging road for us! We’re smarter than that.

One thing we have learned about navigation in Europe is that those post codes are invaluable. They go into the nav system and it knows just about all from there.

Here we are unscathed at the Museum.

It is a great little museum with some interesting pieces of Porsche history.

Look at those 356’s (on the left) – don’t even think about the auction values.

Back end of a championship 935 – brutal piece of machinery.

The Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse

Before the museum adventure we drove the high alpine road past the Grossglockner – Austria’s highest mountain.

https://www.grossglockner.at/gg/en/index

No point in my repeating all that.

The weather conditions were a bit challenging, windy, raining and misty. So misty that we did not get to see the Grossglockner, it was hidden in the clouds. Driving was not really a problem but speeds were limited for obvious reasons.

Here is a video clip of the scenery.

There is a road leading up to the observation area for the Grossglockner mountain at the top is a bus parking lot and a three storey parking garage built 7000 feet up – we did not have a lot of traffic to contend with but in vacation season on a good day it must be a z00…

Next on to Weggis (near Lucerne) Switzerland.