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Archway Entrance Neuschwanstein Castle

Starting on a cold November morning, somewhere in the range of zero degrees Celsius, I headed to the meeting point across the road from the Munich Train Station, crunching the ice on the footpath and trying my hardest not to slip up.  Finally boarding the bus to get out of the cold, I got to meet fellow travellers for our sojourn into the Bavarian Alpine Region mainly to see the castles of King Ludwig II. The guide we had was very informative pointing out various points of interest within Munich and nearby surrounds before we headed in a southerly direction…

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More on Schloss Neuschwanstein

We enter the castle and just stare in wonder at the beauty that unfolds. What a magnificent collection of fine arts and treasures for King Ludwig to have lived amongst. It’s no wonder that he had the government of the time concerned about his ever rising debt, as he continued to build one castle after another. The interior of Neuschwanstein is beautifully ornate and the 2 story Byzantine style throne room has a floor of individually chiseled tiles and a series of pillars in imitation porphyry and lapis lazuli. The throne however, was never built. The Kings bedroom is furnished…

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The Disneyland castle in Sleeping Beauty was modeled on the Neuschwanstein castle. It has also appeared in a number of movies including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Neuschwanstein Castle is breathtakingly beautiful in both its outer appearance and setting on a hilltop with a mountainous backdrop and lake setting, just outside of Fussen. This beautiful castle is one of the castles that was commissioned by King Ludwig and when he died in 1886 construction ceased with 60% of the rooms unfinished. The castle was originally called New Hohenschwangau Castle and was renamed after Ludwig’s death to Neushwanstein Castle “Castle of the…

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We took a tour bus to visit the castles of  King Ludwig II. The tour guide was excellent and gave us lots of information about Germany and Bavaria. There was at the time, no speed limit on the autobahn but this was being changed even though the road deaths in Germany were minor compared to other countries with enforced speed limits. Crazy isn’t it. It doesn’t matter what the facts are if some politician thinks he can win votes and collect revenue by passing a law where one isn’t required. However, we were off to Linderhof Castle to see the…

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We Pack the Bags and are off To Munich

We caught the train to Munich and as we were traveling at night, we got a sleeper. Well sleeping on a lurching train is not my idea of a restful nights sleep, but added with to excitement of traveling through France to Germany made sleeping impossible anyway. So here we are in Munich. We weren’t there for long as we mainly came to do a tour of the palaces of King Ludwig II, the fairytale king. We went for a walk to downtown Munich and suddenly heard this chiming, so once we found the source we stood with a number…

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