Berchtesgaden is a beautiful little mountain village in the German Alps. It has the dubious honour of being the location of Hitler’s mountain retreat, but at least you can see why he liked the place, it’s gorgeous.

We planned to stay just a day and then do a walk in the surrounding hills. But owing to the unavailability of huts in the mountains we had to stay an extra day, but that was ok.

Being relaxed travellers we didn’t really know what day it was, so we nearly got caught out by all the shops shutting at midday on Saturday. We ran around like nuts for half an hour buying all sorts of weird food for our hike, because all the normal shops were shut, how silly.

The night before our hike we camped near the König See, ready to get a boat across it the next morning.