http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Germany , Bavaria , Fussen en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:20:02 +0000 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:20:02 +0000 I was still feeling pretty sad leaving everyone at school but excited to begin travelling. The train ride from Munich to Fussen was actually a great experience in itself riding on older regional trains. The landscape was picturesque slowly approaching the snow covered alps with sunshine directly above quaint Bavarian villages with their onion domed churches and half timbered houses and the l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-697982.html It was raining when we left the hotel this morning raining when we made the drive toward Neuschwanstein and raining when I made two wrong turns on a confusing roundabout the right lane forced us to exit only after we realized we didnt want the right lane twice. When we arrived at the parking lot for Neuschwanstein it had miraculously stopped raining and stayed that way during our entire http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-643608.html This morning we took a train to the Dachau concentration camp to honor and remember both those who had lost their lives and those who had survived the atrocities of the camp. It was a heavy yet powerful experience that we will not elaborate on.Around noon we had to hop into a cab to make our 1330 train to a very different placelighter and magical. We were looking forward to leaving Munich and t http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-628069.html Considering Pam could not work we headed off to see both the castles in Fussen Schloss Hohenschwangau and the other one being Neuschwanstein Castle the one Walt Disneys modeled his castle with tall spires and built around 1888 by the then King of Bavaria Ludwig. While the castles contain some good history and are well worth the visit they were somewhat less inspiring other structures we have http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-612068.html Leaving Liechtenstein quickly it is an ok place but I would not come back or want to live there we headed to Austria intending only to drive through up to Fussen in Germany. What a hidden gem this part of the world is stark mountains with deep valleys filled with little Austrian villages just like you see in the movies again the scenery is breathtaking and again we have so little time to see m http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-612066.html I replaced my original text for this entry as I recently recieved Kathy39s detailed report of the trip which I have drawn upon for this entry.15 June 1978 Thursday. Buz and Kathy arrived in Frankfurt at 730 am one hour earlier than we expected them. We met up about 9 am. Linda dropped me off at my office on her way home as I had to work. Unfortunately for Buz and Kathy I wasn39t able http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-611662.html Day 5 Fussen and Castle NeichwensteinThis was an amazing visit to the Castle that was built by King Ludwig II and was used in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and was the inspiration for the Castle on the logo for Walt Disney films.It was built around the 1880s and took 17 years to build. The King only lived there for 172 days before he died in suspicious circumstances We had a tour by a gu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-610862.html For our last day in Germany Keith and I decided to head down to Fssen where the beloved King Ludwig II Mad King Ludwig built his fairy tale castle Schlo Neuschwanstein.Ludwig may or may not have been the nutcase everyone made him out to be but he definitely had a vision when he started out to build Neuschwanstein. It was a pretty fancy place. I can't imagine being the kind of person that http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-559581.html We drove to Fssen several times while we were being in Bavaria. This small nice town was our shopping centre Town is nice and as we noticed there are some interesting places and worthy to visit but we really we hadn't enought time and goodwill to drive everywhere. The most interesting for me were some triskelions. These ones were black on the yellow background. Three combined legs I saw eve http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-540498.html On Thursday 239 we travelled from Paris to Munich on the 8.45am flight and arrived around 11.00am. We went to pick up our prearranged Hertz rent a car a Ford Focus automatic or similar but to our surprise it must have been Wals birthday as he was handed the keys to a brand new 1900kms black Mercedes 220 diesel automobile which also had inbuilt GPS see photo for the same price. Wal manage http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-534468.html First of all the answer to our question from the Munich blog... Who said I could live on beer pretzels and sausages forever It was Lysh This coming from the girl who couldnt even stand the smell of beer before we leftFrom Munich we drove on the A95 yes the autobahn to Fussen. As you probably know there is no speed limit on the autobahns. Well just say that all 6 gears of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-517749.html A lady from Japan and the girl from Korea and I got together to go check out the castle. We catch a bus up tp where the ticket office is then we had to catch another bus up to this bridge that has the most amazing view of the castle. It was the most beautiful thing I have seen thus far. I bought a small picture that a man had painteddrawn of the castle he is very talented. The next part was to w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-514614.html The homesick thing was hitting me hard the last 2 days. I did some thinking and decided not to go to Italy and Greece. I think it would make me really sad being in such romantic beautiful places without Aaron as well I think it would be way to hot for me there during this time of year it would be better to come back in the spring or fall. I have not yet decided what I am going to do with the ext http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-514612.html FUSSEN Day 38Today I entered every little girls dream world so much so that Disney modeled his famed castled after it. All it took was a two hour train ride to Fussen and then a 10minute bus to Schwangau which is a small town near Austria. This castle is the imagination of one King Ludwig aka. Crazy King Ludwig. He decided that he wanted a cast http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-481442.html 28th March '09A bit more on Neuschwanstein OK then Ill do all the travelling. You just put your feet up.. Maxine told us to have our barcodes ready as we milled about in the courtyard among a hundred other tourists. Ludwig IIs death rather halted construction of this castle much of the edifices interior remains unfinished. The tour itself then is staggeringly brief and prohibits p http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-462121.html Our short visit to southern Germany turned out to be a mixed bag for us on this trip. We entered via Austria and made our way past some beautiful lakes towards the town of Fussen. Like everyone else we went to the area to visit the famous Neuschwanstein Castles. This fairytale castle was apparently the inspiration for the castle at Disneyland We really enjoyed our visit to the castles but were p http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-432755.html I knew this day would be long. Early wake up under the rain in Dornbirn Austria near the border with Swtizerland and Germany only few miles north of Liechtenstein. We first had a serious breakfast at 7am before heading back on the road up north than east in the direction of Fussen. No highways here but rolling german roads bordering Austria. Nearly two hours later...and going closer to the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-423450.html Hi EveryoneImagine back to a time before Germany became embroiled in two World Wars. Back to a time when Germany didn't even exist when Bavaria had its own monarchy. Once upon a time there was a king of Bavaria named Ludwig. Kings Ludwigs son Maximilian waited many years for his wife to give birth. When she finally did they were going to name their first born son Otto. But King Ludwig http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-417242.html Jon reminded me that I have no entry for Jennifer and my last day in Germany spent in FussenSchwangau in the region of Bavaria. Fussen is the town where The Neuschwanstein Castle of King Ludwig II is located. So after Jon got off to the airport in Frankfurt Jennifer and I got on the train to Munich where we transferred to another train which went on to Fussen. The change in the architecture of http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-415912.html Amber's JournalI think today has been one of my favorite days of the trip so far. We spent a few minutes in Munich looking at Olympic Park then left to drive down the Romantische Strasse or Romantic Road to Fussen. I think I was expecting it to be a little more exciting than it was but it was a fun drive through beautiful country and cute towns. It seems like everywhere we go it is so green an http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Fussen/blog-405095.html