Day Eight: Neuschwanstein Castle
This was the final day of our trip, and we decided to go to the castle that inspired Walt Disney's Cinderella castle.
We had to go to the train station and load our luggage into a locker since we checked out of our hotel already. Then we took a 2 hour train ride to a town called Fussen and took a tour of the castle. Often when you go to casltes in Europe, they aren't necessarily the "fairy -tale" type, but this once most certainly was! It was designed by King Ludvig and was decorated in honor of Wagner's operas. Unfortunately it was never finished because he "mysteriously" died before it was completed.
After touring the castle, we had a small lunch as much for the sake of eating as for the sake of warming up then took the train back into Munich.
For dinner we went back to the Hofbrau house. This time we ate in the upstairs area where they had a buffet and entertainment. The upstairs was even more entertaining than the downstairs!! On stage were various performances: dancing, singing, a guy playing the saw, and two people playing the cowbells. When the cowbells were finished, I was the one to yell "more cowbell" (if you've seen the SNL skit - you understand.) This comment came back to bite me, because later in the evening, I got pulled up onstage to play the cowbells! It wasn't so hard, basically I rang the same bell every time the leader pointed to me. It was fun!
We stayed at the restaurant until it closed at midnight (since we still had two hours before our train) then went to the station and waited in the lounge area for our train. We got so lucky on the train rides home! We had two scheduled transfers on our route, and unfortunately, these transfers were also about 45 minutes long (in the cold, early morning.) Fortunately, at our first stop, the other train was already there, so we could just hop on and wait in the warmth, and then that train ended up being the one to take us all the way into Prague (though it did stop in Nurnberg for a while and I guess at that point the info changed so it looked like an actual transfer.)
So what could have been a miserable night on the train turned into probably the best situation possible! We arrived in Prague at about 10AM, got ourselves situated, and passed out!
More cowbell on the right!
1 comment:
Baby, You did a great job summarizing each days activity. I was blessed to be with you and Jace for the holidays. It is also a pleasure reading the summaries and knowing all the other stuff that happened in between and how much fun it was!!!
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