Blogs from Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 2

Schloß Neuschwanstein is one of the many castles built by King Ludwig II during his reign. King Ludwig II is known also as the “fairy tale king”, because of this and the many other castles he built. Neuschwanstein was unfortunately never finished. Before the castle could be finished Ludwig was forced to abdicate by the members of government, because he was so deep in debt from building so many castles. The very next morning after arriving in Munich, he was found drowned in the Starnbergersee (where I went last weekend!). The circumstances of his death are still a mystery. Neuschwanstein is only one kilometer away from another castle called Schloß Hohenschwangau, which we were also able to see. Neuschwanstein is the castle that Walt Disney modeled the castle in Sleeping Beauty and the Disneyland castle after. ... read more

When we finished the first tour we followed by the program and we went towards second castle, much more famous - Neuschwanstein Castle. German: Schloβ Neuschwanstein - I can translate this as New Swan Stone castle or something like that. because We had any spare time we walked a bit and we spent most of that time in shop with rubbish stuff for tourists (this is my opinion someone might has an opposite one). Ania purchased someting, I ignored these stuff as usual because I have no enought room to keep this kind of souvenirs from all my trips in home :P Still was raining, but we didn't take that as obstruction and we went towards Neuschwanstein. We weren't alone, no definitely no - crowd of tourists followed in the two opposite directions - towards and ... read more

While we were planning our ski vacation in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, we knew that we just have to see the famous Neuschwanstein, or Ludwig's castle. So we took a day, not a very sunny day, to go there. What we didn't know is that if it snowed the previous day, like it did, we couldn't take the bus up to the castle but walk (quite steep) uphill for half an hour! Apart from this exercise, we enjoyed sightseeing, even went to see the other castle, Ludwig's parents castle - Hohenschwangau, just below Neuschwanstein.... read more

The second day at the base, we took a tour to Neuschwanstein, probably the most famous castle in the world. It was great, until we walked all the way to the Mary Bridge and saw all the scaffolding on the castle. C'est dommage!!!! We had a great time nonetheless...... read more

Friday 3rd October With damp jeans hung up all over the beds and hung up in the shower, we set off for King Ludwig II’s most famous and photographed castle Schloss Neuschwanstein. It was raining when we left the camping ground and it was still raining when we arrived at the gorgeous town of Fussen and boy was it packed with tourist!! When I asked about the million tourists, the lady smiled and informed me that we’d come to the castle on the wrong day. Friday was a public holiday and therefore all the Germans were having a long weekend and visiting the castle with us!! Damn!! The rain hadn’t stopped falling so we ventured out with all our wet wear gear including colourful water ponchos for the kids. When my parents and kids stood close ... read more