Day 16 Füssen
Where: Füssen, Germany
When: Sept. 19, 2005
WoW! This town is twice as beautifull as Salzburg. I can only imagine this at Christmas time. With all the lights, this would make it a beautifull vaction spot even in winter. The streets are clean and neatly decorated. 3 blocks square of shopping on the old town dominates this small town of 14k. The fortress kindof hangs on the old town, but that is charming in itself.
But everyone comes to Füssen for the castles.
Today we visited the Neushwanstein Castle. This castle was the inspiration for the disney castle. The other castle that can be seen from N-castle is the Howenschwangau castle.
The Neush-castle was the idea of King Ludwig II. Ah Sheista! It just hard to write about it. There are so many neat things about it and it is better to do it with pictures which I can’t provide at the moment. So I’ll skip the description and save it till I see everyone.
After the castle tour, we hiked the trail to Marienbrücke (Mary’s Bridge) to look at the castle. From this standpoint you feel like your in the clouds looking down on the castle as the fog was rolling in. We snapped our photos and got out because it’S really getting cold.
We took the bus down to the village and the route bus back to Füssen.
Overall a great experience at Neuschwanstein Castle! Would not have miss it for the world. Will have to get back here soon. Füssen is just one of those towns that you feel comfortable at any time of the year! Even though it feels very commercial, as tourism I’m sure is driving the economy here, you can still go bowling at the basement of our hotel! that’s right Bowling!
Our toughest task for the rest of the afternoon and night is to shop and find a place to eat.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Best regards always, more than half way thru the trip. Arrgggghhh!!!!
Hope to see everyone soon!
Auf Wiedersehen!!
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Hi Rob! Sorry for the late reply, But friday (9/23) I was festing! Sorry couldn’t make it.
Tom, I did yell OLDENBURG and no one could hear me as a beattle song was playing. I’m sure your relatives were festing as well!
Best regards to all, jaime………….
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