We are delighted to arrive in the tiny town with our Air BnB. It is nestled in a valley near the famous castles. After checking and exploring our super cool place, we read in the book that there are some castle ruins a short hike away. We convince the Dads to go for groceries while the rest of us go exploring.
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| That is the little village we stayed in, Greg especially loved the church bells that chimed all night...every fifteen minutes, he gave a full on rant about it the first morning! |
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Kelly and Anya felt like they were in the Sound of Music
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Kids at the top of the castle ruins.
Name of the castle ruins in case you want to read about it!
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| When you send the Dads to shop you never know what you will get...they made a little conversion error when buying the ground beef and ended up with a meat baby instead! |
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| Eric and Myev recreating the photo in the pub at the corner...we tried to watch the Belgium World Cup game there but ended up back at our own place with a great tv! |
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| Watching the game |
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| Enjoying German beer and watching the game |
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| The Belgian flag on the field at the start! |
Besides a trip with friends what could make things better when you are 8? Your own pedal car and a tiny town to tear around in and explore! The owner of the AirBnB had this and let Charlie use it= HEAVEN!
We got up early and departed for the castles, the ticketing system is a bit tricky to figure out and you have to show up early to claim your reserved tickets. We had time to kill before our tour, here is Jake and his understudy Charlie!
Hohenschwangau Castle- this was the first one we got to see. It was fully furnished inside. No photos from the inside because they don't allow you to take any. Our tour guide was a little soft spoken..but he was only a warm up for the tour guide in the second castle...Katie really enjoyed him and can do great impersonations, she cracked us up at numerous meals doing her impersonation of our guide!
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| Waiting to go up and see the castle in the background. |
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| Walking out after our tour |
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| The first castle we tour..this is the one that he lived in while he had the second one built. |
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| The morning mist was rising off the little lake-gorgeous! |
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| Recreating a Storyland photo from long ago when they had these same hats! This was in the castle gift shop! |
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Here is Neuschwanstein we took this from "Mary's Bridge" that overlooks the gorge nearby.
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| Another view from the bridge, what a beautiful spot! |
Again, no real photos from inside the castle because they weren't allowed, the best was our quirky tour guide and the spot on Katie impersonations that followed!
We got home and had a very late lunch after a failed attempt to eat near Fussen, we even drove into pedestrian only zones and got lots of strange looks. We walked up to the beer garden that is halfway to the ruins and had a fabulous afternoon enjoying the mountains, the cowbells and the beer!
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| Charlie feeding the goats at the beer garden. |
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| Beers with the best views and great company! |
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| The largest couch in the world? Greg could not touch...very funny to see how awkward he found it to sit on! |
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| Everyone was pedal biking! |
We head to bed excited for our trip to the Zugspite the next day...
Again my friend wrote about this long ago, I'm still catching up...here is her post...
https://fillthewall.wordpress.com/2018/07/15/day-12-castles/
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