Could this be my European retirement villa? A little snow in winter and a little sun in summer will do me just fine.
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Most of the towns we passed through had these huge maypoles in the center of town. Notice all the flower boxes on the house.
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You had new developments across the street from century old dwellings. Call me crazy, but why didn't they try and include the old architecture and buildings into the new town plans?.
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Hohenschwangau, now try saying that with a mouth full of marbles! See that little white place on the hill?
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This was the palace of King Ludwig, later to be known as Mad King Ludwig due to his excessive spending on building castles.
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An impressive sight to behold, so impressive that a young Walt Disney used the castle as the model for his Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California.
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We were only half way up the steep climb to the castle.
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Welcome to Schloss Neuschwanstein.
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As we were one of the last people to turn up for the day, we basically had the castle of Schloss Neuschwanstein to ourselves.
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The little footbridge was used for hunting parties and so forth, it's now used for hikers and hanglider pilots wanting to get to the top of the mountain range.
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As you can see the weather was rolling in (again), so we didn't make it over to the bridge.
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At one time, for as far as the eye could see, was King Ludwig's farm land .
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The yellow castle was built for King Ludwig's wife and was called the Royal Castle of Hohenschwangau.
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What a million dollar view.
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The best place to photograph the "wife's" castle (Hohenschwangau) from was the window in the men's toilet. We kid you not.
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The "wife's" castle form our hotel room balcony.
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Yeah right, how were we to know that the sign said no cuddling allowed in public?
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Now how would you like this view outside your bedroom window? King Ludwig did. King Ludwig was not into conquering, raping or pillaging. He liked to build castles.
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Next to Fitzy's boot is a slug. It looks pretty healthy to me.
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Our pension/hotel we spent the night in, located near the base of Schloss Neuschwanstein.
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A pretty basic room, great views, no bathroom. But beggars can't be choosers considering some of the dives we stayed in!
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Here's a good one. An Aussie in a Chinese restaurant in Germany asking for directions with an English map and the only language spoken is fluent German and Chinese. We could have ended up in South Africa.
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Time to bid Hohenschwangau and Schloss Neuschwanstein. Hang on, isn't that yet another rain storm erupting.
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