Blogs from Fussen, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 4

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 painted/drawn of the castle, he is very talented. The next part was to walk down a steep hill down to the castle, I am not looking forward to the walk back. The castle is really great on the outside but the inside is a work or art literally. Every inch of the walls are covered in some sort of art. It's sad that the king only ... read more

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 couldn’t even stand the smell of beer before we left! From Munich we drove on the A95 (yes the autobahn!) to Fussen. As you probably know there is no speed limit on the autobahns. We’ll just say that all 6 gears of our hire care were well used! Off the autobahn we passed some beautiful mountains, green countryside and lots of cows, forests (we saw a cute squirrel), rivers, a huge lake (Froggensee) and lots of little towns. We loved seeing all of the maypoles in the towns. Fussen is at the end of the romantic road (this name was given by ... read more

28th March '09: A bit more on Neuschwanstein? OK, then - I’ll 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 II’s death rather halted construction of this castle; much of the edifice’s interior remains unfinished. The tour itself, then, is staggeringly brief and prohibits photography. Now, I don’t mind prohibiting flash photography, but no photographs at all? To me, that rather smacks of stinging the destitute traveller in the souvenir shop - one is forced to spend one’s hard-earned shitters on postcards. Or you can simply photograph the postcards, which I might have done in the last blog. Or, if you find ‘verboten’ (forbidden) is like a red rag to a bull, there ... read more

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 sun...passing the little village of Fussen, we made it to the castles. Excuse me if we did not stop in Fussen itself, but our journey would not stop in Fussen today. I've been warned to arrive early...we may not have arrived early enough I guess. By 10am, the ticket queue was already a 20 minutes waiting affair....guess by 1pm it reached at least an hour....just to buy ... read more

Jon reminded me that I have no entry for Jennifer and my last day in Germany spent in Fussen/Schwangau 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 the houses was obvious as we travelled along the countryside. The houses were made of wood and had the long, brown windowboxes. Soon we started seeing the Alps. It was exciting to see how Jennifer who grew up with mountains around her was impressed by these very tall, big mountains so close to us. She was taking pictures and telling me to ... read more