Reutte
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Castles
... a Catholic stronghold against Protestant invaders from the North. Today it’s a popular winter resort for Europeans. Overlooking Reutte is a pair of ruined castles dating back to the 13th century. It makes for a great afternoon ...
castles
While staying in "Pinswang", a village just outside of Ruette, Austria, we toured 3 castles-the Nueschwanstein, Hohenschwangau, & Linderhof ...
Reutte
... of that conentration just drain the life out of a place. We decided to leave. We found a campground just a few kilometres away in Austria. Once there, Susan and I took an hour-long walk up the hill to see a very diffent kind of caste, the ruins of ...
Johnny Cash, castles, and a shotgun
... mountains.) It is hard to keep track of days at this point but we spent last Friday and Saturday just outside the town of Reutte, Austria. The town of Pinswang (where we stayed) is pretty much a few houses and the giant working farm, Gutshof zum ...
Reutte
We started this morning at the campground in Reutte, Austria. Since it was raining, it seemed that we were stuck with indoor activities. Thus we decided to go to a medieval museum located up above town below the ruins of Ehrenburg Castle. The museum ...
Day 37 - 6 April - In and out of countries all day
... foot of the Austrian Alps. This drive meant we drove into Switzerland for a moment or two, then back to Germany then into Austria. The thought of that country hopping is crazy. Decided to stay in a town called Ruette at the foot of the alps for ...
All packed up and nowhere to go
... of king Ludwig II. Rick Steves recommends Reutte as the home base rather than nearby, touristy, Fussen Germany. We arrive in Reutte, a deserted train station and make our way though snowy streets to a cafe. We call every hotel and Bed and Breakfast in ...
Fussen, Germany
We travelled from Munich to Fussen, Germany just to view the famous Neuschwantein (noy-SHVAHN-shtine) Castle. The Bavarian people were very friendly and easy going, the landscape so pretty, and the architecture so colourful - you'd be hard pressed ...
tHE TIME OF OUR LIFE
We are in Reutte, Austria today. Have left Irene & Chappy's today at 10 a.m. We are down in the cafe listening to American music, "Hit the Road Jack," Sound familiar???? Cindy & Mike?Irene did not have wireless and we were ...
German angst to Austrian ski huts
... Ludwig. We drove an amazing route over the mountains, and stopped and swam at Plansee, an alpine lake out of Reutte. Our first experience with speedos. Actually, most guys had hip looking surfer trunks, but there were some ...
A Hell drive in but the Schloss was grand
The dads were slack and left Trento late, don't blame them as the room was really nice and daddy D was catching up on all the trip adviser reviews he had not done, daddy C was reading, I slept in the corner - it was nice. Daddy C drove and got petrol at ...
Germany and Austria
After another excellent breakfast at the Hotel Oberland, we boarded the bus and headed for Reutte, Austria. It was a beautiful drive through eastern Switzerland. We stopped in Landau, Germany for lunch. Landau is a small German resort town on a lake. We ...
Oswald (not Lee Harvey)
... the views from the Austrian side, we soon went across the border to the German side. It was neat because they had the official Austria and Germany signs at the border. And the German border even had a street sign telling us the direction and distance and ...
From the Top of the Mountain to the Hofbrauhaus
... to the top from the German side.) At 2,962 meters, it's the highest point in Germany. (There are numerous other mountains in Austria that are higher.) The temperature at the top was 2 degrees Celsius. I thought I might be cold with just the fleece jacket ...
Hiking and Neuschwanstein
Today we climbed up to the Ehrenberg ruins that are behind the hotel. After that we, less mom, climbed farther up the next hill behind it to some more ruins. Next stop was Neuschwanstein. We got tickets and then had lunch at the ...
The Zugspitze and FUN!
... the windows. We chose to take the Austrian gondola up the the top of the Zugspitze since it was closer, cheaper, and well, IN AUSTRIA! We quickly got on the next one to leave and were whisked up in to the air, or what seemed to be straight up ...
On to Austria
The alarm was set again this morning for our other big driving day to Reutte, Austria. There were fresh blackberries for our yogurt and cereal at breakfast, along with the, now usual, meats, cheeses, and assorted spreads. We hit the trinket ...
Down the Romantic Road
... was breathtaking in all directions. When we came down we bought a couple of magnets for souvenirs Then we were off to Reutte, Austria, this time by way of the Autobahn as we were short of time, and the Romantic Road goes through every little ...
The Top of Germany and Austria
... . At the top there was a restaurant on the Austrian side and several beer gardens on the German side. We walked from Austria to Germany at the top. Larry, Derek and Erin climbed, literally, to the top. There was a sign before they ...
From medieval towns to mountains galore!
... town hall. When we left Nordlingen our plan was to take the Romantic Road all the way to Fussen and then 20 minutes further to Reutte, Austria, where our next hotel was. But we got stuck behind some really slow traffic for a long time and we had soon had ...
Austria!
... TO SERVE AS A REMINDER THAT SOMETIMES HISTORY SHOULD NOT REPEAT ITSELF. CROSSED THE BORDER INTO AUSTRIA AND I SERIOUSLY COULDNT BELIEVE HOW BEAUTIFUL THE ALPS ARE. TRIED TO GO LUGING BUT IT RAINED. HOPEFULLY TM WE WILL GO. ...
1st a real medieval castle, then a fantasy castle
... important salt trade route. But the castle was in an area where much fighting went on and kept changing hands between Bavaria and Austria. And it was built before canons were around. But once there were canons, people took the canons up to the nearby ...
Castle Ruins and Cinderella's Castle
... . I watched kinder (children) at the spielpark (play park). There are lots of really good play parks in Germany and Austria. This one had a climbing wall, a rope bridge, and a dragon that sprayed water when you least expected it. I ...
Fun day :)
... 'T EAT MUHMUG BECAUSE HE DOESNT WANT TO LOOK LIKE ALL THE OTHER FAT BUS DRIVERS :) SO MY TIME IN AUSTRIA HAS BEEN FUN. BUT IM READY (SO READY) FOR WARM WEATHERRRRRR! VENICE TOMORROW! IM SO EXCITED! BUT WE WILL PUT IN A LOT OF ...
Across another Border!!!
Not sure were Michael is going with this one but here you go: Random Michael entry :) The was once a young man from Sneem, Quite well to do, if you know what I mean, He married a Cork girl who made his life miserable, so much so that he ruptured ...
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