Wednesday, July 28, 2010

German Castles on the Romantic Road

Our last stop on the Romantic trail was the castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau . These fairy tale castles (which were obviously the inspiration for Disney) stand impressively at the foot of the mountains near to the border between Germany and Switzerland and are actually 19th century Romanesque revivals.

We took the compulsory tour of the interior of the Neuschwanstein which to our surprise was quite unique and interesting. For example - the bedroom features wood carvings which took 14 woodcarvers 4 years to complete! To which one of the ladies on our tour replied "Good heavens imagine the dusting!" No photos allowed sorry to say.

Overall we were not so impressed by these castles due in part to the HORDES of tourists here making it somewhat of a circus. We have another castle visit planned for later in our trip so will see how that compares.


We stayed overnight near Fussen and then moved on to the Black forest.

Schloss Hohenschwangau

Schloss Neuschwanstein

Schloss Neuschwanstein

View from Schloss Neuschwanstein down to the lake and Schloss Hohenschwangau

Schloss Neuschwanstein entry

oooh its a fairy tale!

On our trip in this area we noticed a few road speed signs which actually stipulate the speeds appropriate for different vehicles. Its 100km for cars, 80km/hr of trucks over 6 tonne and max 60km for TANKS! Thought it was a joke until we had to overtake this tank!





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