11 July 2007
Füssen June 7, 2007
Ok, a month late, but here we are.
I had June 7 off to celebrate... umm.. blood and love of christ? probably. so i made it a 4-day weekend and did a little travelling.
It pinkled rain all the way down to Füssen. Hannes and I took the "Romantic Road" because it was in all of my tourist guides as a really scenic drive.
Well, we kept getting stuck behind semi's on 2-lane country roads. It was pretty, but the only feature that made it more Romantic than any other country road in Bavaria was the castle we drove under. but also we got to see cows, which aren't allowed on the autobahn.
the first night we were there, we set up our tent, and visited the thermal baths. we got to swim around in saline water from geothermal springs at night and look up at the lit castles of Neuschwanstein and Höhenschwangau. There were also Saunas. J think around 12 of them, we did an Aromatherapy sauna in the Panorama room. A German man in a towel told jokes and poured apple-scented water on the furnace, while 30 or so naked strangers (about 50/50 men and women) sat on wooden benches and sweat.
in this picture you can just make out Neuschwanstein in the distance, it's halfway up on the right hand side..
there was bike riding around the lakes, in the foothills of the alps.
and swimming in some really green alpine lakes..
and roman soldier chainsaw art on the side of the bike path
we took a brief stop at the cyclist gas station (beer!)
then did a little wandering around the city of Füssen proper,
when i was suddenly invested in stocks
(ooh! look! a torture device! maybe i can fit my head in there!)
good Bayrisch food (Schweinehaxe - pig shoulder with sauer kraut and a Semmelkloß - bread dumpling)
it was really relaxing. no stress, just sort of figuring our way around as we went. lots of wandering around on 2 wheels.
finally, right before we left, we took the tour of Neuschwanstein, which inspired the Disney Castle.
The tour was awesome, but they shuffled us through a bit too quickly for my taste. The inside of this castle is _really_ richly done, it was a lot to absorb in 20 minutes. Unfortunately (for me) photography inside the castle is VERBOTEN. I held off and bought the book at the end, but it didn't have closeups on the architectural details I wanted to see.
Ah well. We were graciously permitted to take photos out the windows of the castle, looking over Alpsee, and Schloss Höhenschwangau.
I didn't get a really good postcard shot of Neuschwanstein itself, my pix were a bit piecemeal.
ah well. next time i'll climb up to mary's bridge and get the postcard shots. a fairly standard tourist photo was managed, though:
on the drive home we took the autobahn. it took 2 hours less than the drive down there. and now we know. :)
I had June 7 off to celebrate... umm.. blood and love of christ? probably. so i made it a 4-day weekend and did a little travelling.
It pinkled rain all the way down to Füssen. Hannes and I took the "Romantic Road" because it was in all of my tourist guides as a really scenic drive.
Well, we kept getting stuck behind semi's on 2-lane country roads. It was pretty, but the only feature that made it more Romantic than any other country road in Bavaria was the castle we drove under. but also we got to see cows, which aren't allowed on the autobahn.
the first night we were there, we set up our tent, and visited the thermal baths. we got to swim around in saline water from geothermal springs at night and look up at the lit castles of Neuschwanstein and Höhenschwangau. There were also Saunas. J think around 12 of them, we did an Aromatherapy sauna in the Panorama room. A German man in a towel told jokes and poured apple-scented water on the furnace, while 30 or so naked strangers (about 50/50 men and women) sat on wooden benches and sweat.
in this picture you can just make out Neuschwanstein in the distance, it's halfway up on the right hand side..
there was bike riding around the lakes, in the foothills of the alps.
and swimming in some really green alpine lakes..
and roman soldier chainsaw art on the side of the bike path
we took a brief stop at the cyclist gas station (beer!)
then did a little wandering around the city of Füssen proper,
when i was suddenly invested in stocks
(ooh! look! a torture device! maybe i can fit my head in there!)
good Bayrisch food (Schweinehaxe - pig shoulder with sauer kraut and a Semmelkloß - bread dumpling)
it was really relaxing. no stress, just sort of figuring our way around as we went. lots of wandering around on 2 wheels.
finally, right before we left, we took the tour of Neuschwanstein, which inspired the Disney Castle.
The tour was awesome, but they shuffled us through a bit too quickly for my taste. The inside of this castle is _really_ richly done, it was a lot to absorb in 20 minutes. Unfortunately (for me) photography inside the castle is VERBOTEN. I held off and bought the book at the end, but it didn't have closeups on the architectural details I wanted to see.
Ah well. We were graciously permitted to take photos out the windows of the castle, looking over Alpsee, and Schloss Höhenschwangau.
I didn't get a really good postcard shot of Neuschwanstein itself, my pix were a bit piecemeal.
ah well. next time i'll climb up to mary's bridge and get the postcard shots. a fairly standard tourist photo was managed, though:
on the drive home we took the autobahn. it took 2 hours less than the drive down there. and now we know. :)
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