Originally Posted by bikemig

I've spent some time living in Germany. I spent most of one summer working on a dairy farm in that area right off the Chiemsee and doing a lot of hiking which is the area you are talking about.

Beautiful country but I never realized until now that Trostberg in Bavaria (which is what, right around 60 klicks from Salzburg) is not far from Berlin. . . . .

Germany may not be large compared to the US but the news that a town near the Austrian border is "not far from Berlin" would probably be news to the inhabitants of that town.