Maybe it's the years of lost hours playing Dungeons & Dragons as a teenager, but castles have always excited me. Skick feels the same way, proclaiming that "There's no way we're coming back from Germany without seeing a castle!" We were thus obviously overjoyed when we set foot in our next destination - the town of Hohenschwangau, home to 2 of Germany's most famous castles.
The trek itself was pretty interesting - we had no map of the area and no idea where our hotel was. After stumbling in to the right little town (mostly by luck, no doubt= we were fortunate enough to meet some really nice locals that offered to give us a ride to where they "thought" the hotel might be. It turns out we never would have found it on our own - it was almost a mile up a winding side road. But more importantly - it turned out to be literally in the shadow of the most famous castle in Germany. Two steps out the front door and bam! There's an enormous castle. The castle itself was built mostly for bragging rights and luxury, not for any sort of military purpose, and happens to be what Disney modeled the castle from Sleeping Beauty after. It's nestled in the middle of the German Alps, and is pretty darned breathtaking.
With Munchen beer and Bavarian castles at our backs, we've just now crossed the border into Austria. We're cruising along in the dining car of another high speed train, this time towards Vienna - which is supposedly not so shabby a place either.
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