Hotel Braustuberl Füssen

... lakes. The restaurant's deck is located directly adjacent to a large lake, and provides a wonderful sunset view of the Alps. The restaurant is a little pricy wish dishes ranging from EUR 10 - 25.

Die Sennerei is a cheese restaurant which is owned by the adjacent Allgäu cheese producer. The cheese producer produces a delicious and very creamy butter made directly from the fresh cow milk.

The ...

... free camping ahead :) We drove towards Munich and parked once again on the street in a small town, which has by far been our most common theme for free camping but is usually the safest choice for us. The best part about Fred is that he is small enough to park on the street and does not look like a campervan, so anyone who sees him most likely would think it was a mail truck or something…at least that is what we tell ourselves :)

We take a last daytrip together to beautiful, fairy tale Schloss Neuschwanstein. Fiona had visited before, but it was still a lovely day out together, and probably one of the last castles we will visit...we're definitely feeling a bit castled out.
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... it because it reminded him of the original Lego castle – but really, it was great anyway. The tour of the inside was also interesting.

Afterward, we took the bus up to Neuschwanstein, which was good, but we were unable to get as good views of it. There is a bridge (which Amy couldn’t walk out onto, being a rather rickety wooden bridge) that gives views ...

... 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.

I succeeded in getting together with ol' Jim yesterday, so we put our heads together some on the notion of a couple day trips. He's had it in mind to get me down to the town of Andechs on the Ammersee for a long time now. We were supposed to go back when I was here for Oktoberfest, but the time was just too short. This time though, he basically let me know that I wouldn't get out of Munich without going there first. In the ...

... of trains in Buchloe. So for all my efforts to make it onto the first train of the day bound for Füssen, I still ended up being screwed. I got off at the next stop and back-tracked to Buchloe, where I switched to the proper train to get me to Füssen. Ah well, more time to enjoy the lush, green fields of Bavaria rolling by outside my window. They really are stunning - the fields - and backed by towering forests of pines that lead right up the Alps, which come skyrocketing ...

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.

Today we drove up into the mountains to see the fairy tale castle, Neuschwanstein. This is another of Ludwig's castles, this one unfinished, and served as the inspiration for Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle. It ...

We went by car to Mittenwald and got at room at the Hotel Post. It was a nice room, but very narrow. It reminded me of a train compartment. There was a hail storm and it was rainy and cloudy. I bought ...