Today we visited King Ludwig II´s crazy castle in the hills, the one that they worked on for 17 years and was still only 1/3 finished when he died "under mysterious circumstances". It´s a pretty cool place!We couldn´t find a hostel in Munich, so we decided to look for one nearer to Fussen, the town where the castles are, and we ended up in this great hotel on a lake in a little town called Seeg. It´s a super small town, and when the woman heard we were backpackers coming by train she sent the restaurant manager to pick us up. Riding around in a VW van felt just like choir tour, and we were glad not to have to walk the 2km in the rain.
We went to the restaurant for dinner last night, and it was great. Did we mention we´re in Bavaria? The decor, the atmosphere, and the food were stereotypically bavarian, but the music was BeeGees, John Mayer, Mariah Carey, Coldplay, and Phil Collins to name a few. We laughed about that, especially after several bottles of Bavarian beer!
This morning was sunny again, so we walked back to the train station, trained to Fussen, bussed up to the castle, and then hiked the "40" (read: 20) minute trek up to the castle. We still had some time, so we went up even farther to this bridge behind the castle and took some pictures. Now we´re on our way back to our hotel, and we´re thinking we´re going to ask if there´s a canoe we can take out on the lake behind our hotel (michelle pointed out that we should canoe to dinner at the restaurant, which is down the road/lake).
Munich tomorrow!
2 comments:
Sounds fabulous! I guess we can thank those Bavarians for their 1830 purity clause for beer...I think that's what it is. Remember that radio commercial?
Karin got married yesterday and it was amazing and beautiful (guess that only makes sense to Heather...sorry Michelle!). It's raining and it's the May long weekend. Gas keeps trying to creep up to $1.30. Hold the canoe...I'm coming to Bavaria.
I think it was more like 1516...beer's been around a long time! Yay beer!
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