Neuschwanstein

Today was an all day tour to the castle of castles in Germany.  We took the tour because it was the most convenient way to get there and we were so glad that we did when we got their because it was utterly chaotic at the foot of the mountain, totally under resourced in services. The line to get tickets into the castle was over 200metres.

The lake and the 2 castles we saw were fantastic.  Inside Neuchwanstein I thought my eyes were going to explode with over stimulation - it was just ridiculous all the details of every single room that was finished.  Amazing stuff.  No photos allowed inside the castle and the most expensive gift shop I have ever experienced. I just wanted the nice orange scarf with the carriage on it but at 50 euro I was going without.

The trees were still laden with snow and every now and then there was enough of a breeze to blow some snow into the air and it would filter down between the branches and sunlight.  I loved it - if you could have removed the eleventy billion other people that were there I would have liked it much more.

Our tour guide was the same lady who took the beer tour our second night in Munich.  She was an american who had moved to Munich.  She was ok.  But she came into her own I think when she was bullied by another tour guide on the train out to the castle.  This guy came into the carriage we were on and then demand that she stop giving her tour in public because there was one or two of his people in the same carriage.  He then threatened if she continued he would stand there and make jibes at her the whole time.  She was ultra polite and all of her tour group told him to back off.  It was really weird and uncomfortable.

Hohenschwangau

Neuschwanstein