Pension & Grillrestaurant Pfeffermuhle Pfronten

... It is possible to take a lift to the top, however the lift is supposedly quite expensive at over EUR 50 per person.

+ Mittenwald
This is a very colourful and quaint town close to Garmisch Patenkirchen. Mittenwald displays a lot of painted houses.

+ Wieskirche (near Steingaden)
This is a Catholic Pilgrimage Church, which is next to Linderhof Castle another MUST SEE in the ...

... he spent less than 80 days.

The following link of Schloss Linderhof will provide all the info on this fairy tale palace which is a definite must see when coming to the Allgäu.

http://www.schlosslinderhof.d e/

Ludwig the Dreamer, as he also appeared to be known, among other built Europe's largest human built cave at the Linderhof Castle, and spent quite a bit of time in ...

... offers a variety of dishes prepared with local Allgäu cheese. Beware though, the menu is not in German but rather in the Allgäu language making it even difficult to understand for the normal German. An English menu is not available. However one of the waitresses speaks pretty good English. The restaurant is less pricy, and set out like a bier restaurant with long tables and benches. All the dishes are pretty good. A ...

... br>The only way to see the castle was by an organized tour, so we had to wait up at the top for awhile until our tour time-the views were more than enough to keep us occupied. The tour itself was a bit overwhelming-there were about 50 people and our tour guide had a very strong accent and was hard to hear, but at least we could see the inside of the castle, which was amazing. Ludwig had an obsession with swans and they were all ...

High up in the Allgäu Alps, a few miles from the village of Pfronten, we visited a very isolated for over 100 years family-run luxury hotel for dinner. A beautiful wooden structure with a grand view of the Alpe foothills, and cow bells of cows grazing in the pristine alpine highlands could be heard throughout our dinner stay.

The hotel served a gourmet dinner of freshly prepared local and international dining variety.

... The Schloss is the last stop on the Romantic Road in Germany. There were many Japanese tourists, which was fun for us to see. Unfortunately one side of the castle was under repair, but it was still beautiful to see the castle in its lush surroundings.

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 ...

... with heavy timber beams were decorated with germanium-frilled windows and fresh piles of logs were stacked in the front yards.  Grey smoke rose from the chimneys and I half-expected Heidi and Peter to come running down a hill hand in hand.  They were Swiss, I know, but the image fit.   Before we knew it we were surrounded ...

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!