This lake is at the base of the two castles. It’s good for recreation.
Castle lake area
Fairytale castle – Neuschwanstein – Crazy Ludwig’s (II) castle
There are 2 castles close together. Hohenschwangau was built on top of a 13th century castle ruin by Ludwig II’s father and the fairytale castle (Neuschwanstein) was built by Ludwig II, also known as “crazy Ludwig” (found insane after bankrupting the family and then mysteriously died). This castle here is probably the most famous icon of Germany and is really amazing to see, though both castles are expensive to enter. Best to book Neuschwanstein a month in advance so you get a good visit time. With both castles you only get a 45 or so minute tour so it isn’t really anything close to the in depth tour of the Munich Residence.
Hohenschwangau Castle
Füssen – castle entrance town
This little town is the cute entry to the two amazing castles up above, one of which is the famous fairytale castle built by Ludwig II. We had to try the sauerbraten. It wasn’t as good as my mothers but as you can see, it was good enough.
In order to get completely stuffed, we had pizza after sauerbraten.
Erfurt – near Munich
We stayed here to launch into Munich for a few days. It’s a cheaper place to stay. And it is cute little old town.
Residence-Munich – the palace
Royal Jewels of Bavaria
Munich Residence
Royal porcelain of Bavaria
Nymphenburg Palace
The palace of the Bavarian kings. Click the link below to read about the palace and the place the royals kept their beautiful carriages, sleds and horses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphenburg_Palace
Munich
as far as I am concerned the Hofbrauhaus is the most famous Bier hall in the world. I’ve known about this place for 62 years. It seems to be doing very well and it was great visiting and trying the beer and some snack. This beer hall is well known to everyone who ate at Schroeder’s Café in San Francisco which is still there on Front Street.
