Hotel-Restaurant Gasthaus zum Sternen Neuburg

i was 15, i was in bavaria with the army cadets. i loved it! we were here for a week and we were here on an adventure sport week. we went to neuschwanstein castle where chitty chitty bang bang was filmed. we went mountaineering and kayaking. we also went on a day trip cycling into austria. it was a great thing so many things ...

... The fun was finding the way. We thought that being advertised so much by the tourist board it would be well signposted. There were signposts (little brown ones behind bushes). Add to this that we had no map and were driving on the "wrong" side of the road - we got thoroughly lost. Then again how can you get lost when you don't know where you are going?

Driving on the right is an experience, especially at roundabouts; remember to look to your left, not ...

... Canal runs just outside the walls.

nothing was open today, being sunday, but we enjoyed exploring the wall and the tiny houses and streets within. unfortunately, there are no plaques or signs explaining details of these historic buildings and towns. we are on our own to learn and discover more, but finding information on line has been difficult.

Today we visited Legoland Deutschland.
The lighthearted amusement park made an interesting counterpoint to the Dachau concentration camp of yestereday.
Another counterpoint to Munich had to do with the price. Family admission to Deutsches Museum, maybe the most fabulous museum on Earth aside from the Smithsonian: 17 Euros. Family admission to Legoland, a mediocre amusement park: 160 Euros.
Anyway, we had a great time ...

... Wonderland type chairs with glass inserts, metal trees with glass birds and owls, metal animals of every description, totem poles of glass, flowers, butterflies it was endless and wonderful. Inside the glass works it was overwhelming, so many beautiful colours and shapes. The ceilings hung with glass icicles and coloured balls, everything was stunning and so inexpensive. Murano was worthwhile seeing but this was so much better, but no beads to be seen anywhere ...

Yay, today we had a sleep in as we didn't pay the extra 10 Euro each for breakfast. After our sleep in we headed to the Roman Museum which is set up in an old church so really high ceilings. It was an interesting collection. We enjoyed lunch in the main square and then made our way to St.Mary’s Cathedral (it’s always 'Mary’), only one ...

... a few clashes of thunders. It was quite an experience for us because it was only the second time we have experience a thunderstorm since leaving Australia. The other time was in New York last year! Augsburg is quite small and our hotel was not even a five minute walk from the station. We settled in to our nice hotel room before ...

... and Classicism. Parts of the palace were severely destroyed during the second world war and have now been reconstructed. Many of the rooms that we visited in the royal apartments had been reconstructed, a bit disappointing that they were not original. The main hi-light for me was the Hall of Antiquities. A large hall, 66 metres long with a Renaissance interior, full of sculptures and paintings.

... The lack of respect for human life is alive and well. Although not as horrible as the Holocaust, such atrocities are still happening. Milosevic slaughtered Muslims in Balkans in the 1990s; the Chinese government ran students over with tanks in Beijing back in 1989, et cetera. It is hard to write about this, I had a lot more thoughts going through my head as I walked through the places but now it's harder to recall. I can tell you, though, that ...

... we were all ready for round two. This time we spent the day in the Hippodrome tent and this tent served wine so Candice was stoked. She did have one stein of beer while she was here. Its Oktoberfest after all so she gave it a go. She pulled a horrible face after every drink, but she managed to finish it. John had a delicious Pork knuckle while Candice had some yummy sausages and sauerkraut. This tent was again a great one. Everyone once again ended up dancing on the ...