Hirsch Füssen

... drowning in the lake near Munich is still a bit of a myth in Germany. It was a 45 minute walk uphill, but for 6 Euros we could take a horse drawn carriage-we jumped at the chance. It was a memorable ride and only the second time we had taken one-the first being right after we were married! It wasn't a private ride but the tourists who shared the ride with us also shared in our giggles at the constant ******* of the horses :)
Füssen, Bavaria, Germany armajor7

... yet another tourist trap.

I have never seen as many large and aggressive large hornets and wasps as I have seen at this location. It was all but pleasant. The ticket office to go to the castle was also located here. Each castle entry costs EUR 9 per person, and one had to reserve a guided tour at a specific time. A bus, costing EUR 4 for going up the hill, or EUR 2 back down ...

... King Ludwig II which had heaps of weird stuff inside including and artificially created cave. It was really pretty but you have got to feel sorry for the architect and engineer who worked there. No Sire, that won't work as it will fall down...I can imagine how those arguments would have ended.

In general Fussen is a really pretty town and the mountains around the area are quite spectacular when the sun finally came out. It would be nice to spend a few days around this area.

... too.
The rest of the tour took us to Linderhof castle and Neuschwanstein castle. What magical looking places they were. Neuschwanstein is the castle Walt Disney uses the sillohette of at the start of his movies. Anyway, after the trip it was back to Munich for a day or so and then on the plane home.

Liam here. Well, Eb and m'self are in a Germany, specifically in a little town on the Austrian border called Füssen. Tried making an entry earlier, but there was a big group of Italian teenagers playing with a 'Foozball' table nearby, making it difficult to concentrate. I noticed one of them had a 'manbag'. But anyway. We've now left Switzerland, which turned out being extremely expensive (surprise, eh?) and officious, but very picturesque. Spoke ...

... stone of the building was laid September 5, 1869. Neuschwanstein was primarily designed by Christian Jank who was not an architect or even an engineer, but rather a theatrical set designer. This says a lot about what Ludwig intended for this site. The whole place is an amalgamation of fantastic devices from the setting itself to the little rooms such as the Grotto - straight out of Wagnerian myth. The architectural know-how was provided by the Munich court architect ...

Another work conference for my parents brought us to Oberammergau for a week. We stayed in the cutest little wooden cottage - like the whole thing ceiling to floor and including flowering window boxes was made out of wood! Totally picturesque like you've read about in Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Aromatic town bakery. Absolutely enchanting.

... gorgeous and the views of it and from it are breathtaking.



After our tour we drove to Kempten and stayed at the Peterhof downtown. This was our first room with a tv...all German stations, of course!

... napkins.


We toured Linderhof, one of crazy King Ludwig's castles. It's the only one that was finished before he died. Even though it wasn't sunny, Rick made some gorgeous pictures.