Monday, we met in the lobby about 9 or 9:15 to do some touring of the area. Matt had some intestinal discomfort, so he stayed at the hotel and slept until 3pm. He then got up, and did our laundry. What a guy!.
The first place we visited was 'Neuschwanstein Castle - 'a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany' This is the castle that Walt Disney used as a model for his Small World castle. Sonja said that the inside tour is so rushed, and the furnishings are just mediocre, that it is not worth paying for a tour. We had a bright sunny day for the walk up to the castle, and enjoyed the scenery as we ventured to the top hill where it resided.
We passed some beautiful scenery on the way to the next castle/palace. There was a gorgeous lake (Plansee Lake in Austria) with a mountain backdrop that just takes your breathe away. To top that, there were a couple of sailboats on the lake. Fantastic.
- Linderhof Palace with the Blue Grotto 'is a Schloss (castle) in Germany, in southwest Bavaria near Ettal Abbey. It is the smallest of the three palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and the only one which he lived to see completed.' This place was spectacular. It looked like he copied Schoenberg Palace in Vienna, and Joe said it looked to him like a small Versailles from France. It had beautiful fountains in the front and the back of the palace. The fountain in the front was management by gravity and water pressure. We could not believe how high the water was going into the air. Later we walked thru the back gardens to the grotto. This grotto was all hand made. It was basically an in ground swimming pool with walls that made it look like a huge cave. Unbelievable how much money he spent on his pleasures, and it was probably tax money !
By the time we reached Ettal, it was after the Abbey had closed. But the Biergarten was open. I loved the Dunkel Ettal beer, and I had a pig hock to eat. Instead of boiling the pig hock, they seem to deep fry it. It was not as good as last years in Prague, but it was good. Angie had one too, that she thought she liked, but decided afterward it was not on her list of favorite foods.
We took a faster way back to Oberstauffen, but it meant that we returned about 7. Matt was a little worried that something had happened to us, and was relieved when we returned. Everyone came to our room a little later so we could tell him about the day.
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