Day 11

After a good sized breakfast at our hotel today, we easily entered the next freeway for our drive towards Austin. Unfortunately we were also heading in the wring direction for a while! But the freeways are easy to manage and we were not inconvenienced for long.

We decided to visit Fredericksburg on the way, as it was promoted as a German town in the middle of Texas. I think we were expecting it to be like Solvang in California, but it wasn't quite the same! The town definitely did have its charms with parks and shops, and was certainly large, however it seemed to lack the same character as Solvang. My lunch ended up being McDonald's drive through!

We are staying at a Super 8 here in Houston (the accommodation is so expensive!) but as the room wasn't ready yet, we walked down to a nearby diner for lunch. The weather was so hot! We also needed to visit a barber and bank and when we found two nearby we were happy (until we walked down to them and saw the barber was closed and the bank withdrawal didn't work). We have been having trouble withdrawing money from HSBC so we called them to resolve the problem before heading out again.

As it was getting cooler, we walked to nearby Capitol Hill which we really liked, both inside and out. We walked downtown to see the Driskill hotel with it's elegant foyer, and the famous Voodoo Donut where we didn't want to risk coronary heart disease by buying anything there!

We returned to our room for a shower and change of clothes before catching an Uber back downtown for dinner. We ended up going to a Sports Bar for a dinner of tacos before heading to a nearby venue to see the locals play shuffleboard and watch American Horror Story. We briefly saw a drag show at the pub next door before losing interest and going to a nearby bear bar for karaoke. Since the town wasn't exactly rocking, we took another Uber back for a not-too-late night.Läs mer