Landhaus Kossel Füssen

We stopped on the way to the castles to climb to the top of the castle above our campsite, which gave us a nice view of the green lake below. We reached the castles in Germany after lunch but due to the fact that they both closed at 5pm, we decided to choose one to do a tour. My favorite by far was the Neuschwanstein, which I had seen in photos and heard that the Disneyland castle was inspired by. We learned a lot about Ludwig II ...

... br>The cows were usually milked at 5.30 - 6.30 p.m. Visitors could purchase 1.5 liters of fresh unheated unpasteurized milk for EUR 0.90 from the stables directly after the cow was milked. Essentially the freshest milk you can get.

The farmers also delivered a variety of fresh bread buns (charged separately) every morning at 7 a.m. directly to the apartment door directly from a local bread baker.

Schlosshotel Angeralp, Pfronten

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.
Hohenschwangau, Bavaria, Germany fiseb

This was a lovely little place we stopped at on the bus tour to the castles. Unfortunately, being Sunday, most everything was shut (except for the souvenir shops that is). They have a woodcarving school there that I plan to stop at for a weeklong course on the next trip. But of course it was shut that ...

... demandé mon permis international. C'est là que le cauchemar a commencé. C'est à cause de la bip-bip de "Différence du Québec" que je n'ai pas eu de facilité. Si j'avais eu un permis ontarien tout aurait été correct. Elle m'a envoyé voir la Bundespolizei pour voir si elle ne pouvait pas faire quelque chose, mais NON! À mon retour auprès de la jolie agente, elle a fait des appels à ses collègues et boss ...

... decided to head on to the next town, Vevey, and we called ahead to book a room there. The view was absolutely spectacular, looking out across a lake to a huge mountain covered in cloud in the distance. After asking directions to the B&B we finally found the street it was on, but the number we were given didn't exist. After peering through the windows of what we thought was a hotel, a Swiss-French woman noticed us and asked what we were ...

... hillside for a brat and a beer and then sauntered over to the rail station for my return trip. Once back in Munich, I decided to ask the ticket agents about the overnight train again. Who knows, maybe they had a cancellation. Besides, I had no idea what else to do. My last resort would have been to call Pia and Norbert and explain the situation to them and spend another night there. Well, the guy behind the ticket window told me it was too late to reserve anything. Instead he ...

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!

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 ...