Sunday, July 15, 2012

Neuschwanstein castle

We got the ticket for our tour and had like two hours to kill. Colette has a guidebook and it said that a good restaurant was 2 km away so we walked there. When we found it it was closed so we went to a place we has passed on the way to this town. I had some schnitzel which was pretty good. Then we realized that it was 4 and our tour started at 4:40. I wouldn't say we ran but it was in between that and a power walk. We found a bus that would take you to the castle but he saw our tour tickets and said that it was starting in 5 min and we wouldn't make it. He told us he would wait for us and to go get our tickets changed. It was so easy to just walk right in instead of. The hour long line we had getting the ticket the first time. So it got changed to 5:20 and we made it up there. It was such a fairy tale castle!! It was never fully completed bc the king was found dead (murdered) and all construction stopped but the rooms that are finished have an opera theme. One room was Tristan and Isolde and that was the only one I recognized. The tour only lasted thirty minutes and the girl didn't really tell much so I think that was kinda crappy but the castle was huge and beautiful so it was ok. Behind the castle is a waterfall with a bridge over it that you can take pictures from so we did that and there is a set of stairs that go down and you can be at the bottom of the waterfall. The water was so clear and cold and we saw some people drinking out of it! We stopped on the way up bc we were so exhausted from all of our walking and we didn't want to start again. Right now we are waiting for the train bc we missed all the ones that go straight to Munich so we will have to switch trains again. It's going to be like 1030 when we get back to Munich and I have to do laundry.

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