Going home, we set off from Sirmione after breakfast. For the first part we opted to avoid toll roads. Instead we drove along SS12 towards the Alps.
First stop was the vineyard of Alois Lageder. We tasted one of their wines in Brescia. It’s not available in Sweden and we realized that we would pass nearby on the way back home. So, we bought a box. Which was what we could fit in the car!
We continued on the old road all the way to the Brenner pass where we had lunch and filled up our cars.
Once we got closer to Innsbruck, the traffic became chaotic. There were several roadworks ahead and our GPS apps gave different suggestions on how to proceed. We ended up following a suggested reroute. It took us onto the Autostrada. Then onto a smaller road again. Only to be sent back to the queue on the Autostrada we came from by some police that had taken up a post along that route. Only trucks where allowed to take that route.
After this, we selected the fastest route to Nürnberg and the hotel for the night. To our surprise, the traffic around Munich was very easy to navigate for once.
622 km, 8 hours and 14 minutes drive today. Tomorrow we’ll continue north to catch the ferry from Travemünde.
Europe by car 
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