Day five – Saint Louis to Vitznau
| Distance today – 221 km | Journey time – 3h 15m |
| Total trip distance – 1,716 km | Total journey time – 1d 00h 55m |
Whilst staying just inside France, we planned to visit the Musée National de l’Automobile in Mulhouse, a collection of more than 500 cars, 2,823 of which were Bugattis (or approaching that number). Yes, a car museum. It had 2 things going for it, amongst a lot of really old cars (motorised carriages) – a Ford RS200 rally car and a TinTin exhibition with all the cars from the books.
To save on pages and pages of photos, here’s a few of my favourites, then a gallery for anyone who wants to see 2,823 Bugattis (and some other stuff too).
From here we began our journey to the start point for the next chunk of driving. This meant a few fast and less fast roads through Baden to Vitznau, on the shore of Lake Lucerne.
Our hotel for the evening was a very nice one, with an indecipherable restaurant system, at least it was based on the information online. Neuro Campus Hotel DAS MORGEN was its name (unclear why aside from their use of various neuroscience terms around the hotel).
The car had its own space – well, 2 spaces as it was too wide for a single space, and everyone else had opted to double park, so we did the same. The room was excellent, with hanging chair, balcony and power sockets we couldn’t use as the Swiss system is apparently unique. Surprise.
We arrived around 3.30pm, probably the earliest so far this trip, so we had a good walk round Vitznau – not very big, but with some huge hotels, some of which were quite grand.
Given the next day was a very big one, we opted for an early dinner. We discovered why we were confused about their restaurants – it’s a buffet which you pay for by weight!! So the soup, main courses and dessert all got fat checked.
