Last stop: Bamberg

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The famous knight on his horse in the Dom


Yep: Von Stauffenbrg lived here.

No wonder I have gained some weight during the last weeks - those Germans are mad about meat... (and chips)

Nurmberg

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A lego store: where else then in Toy Capital of the world: Nurmberg?

 
Everyone knows Nurmberg of the WWII trials, unfortunately the court room was closed when we were there, but there is more to Nurmberg then that. It has a old inner city and the German Railway museum.

The BMW museum

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Actually not a lot has changed since this W32 to the GS1200R





A couple of days in Munich without (very) old stuff, but with some technical stuff - like in the Deutsche Museum and in the BMW museum.

On the Road

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Last Ludwig II castle: Schloss Linderhof

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Nice setting

Opera in a cave, with the king's boat as his seat


Ludwig II memorial in the lake where he drowned / was killed / killed himself
Via a little detour through Austria we ended up in The southern tip of the German alps and found Linderhof Castle, a sort summer house of Ludwig II. It is a small replica of Versailles. It also has it's own opera house (set in a -man made- cave).

Goodbye Romantic Road!

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It was a great trip - that everyone should do once in their lifetime. We are returning our trip back home: up north and west!

Ludwig II - Walt Disney eat out your heart...

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Well when I mentioned earlier this week that Rothenburg ob den Tauber looked a bit like Disney World to me, I got a tweet from the Rothenburg guys mentioning that everything was for real :-)
I know, I know - but now here in Neuschwanstein I think that everybody must agree that this is the original Disney World Cinderella castle. Well... original? This to was always mend as a make believe. It is full of replica and even has a grotto chamber. What impressed me most was the very colorful interior. A pity that Ludwig II couldn't finish this Wagner dreamworld.

Fussen and a lot of Barock (and I mean a LOT of Barock)

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What is Jar Jar Binks doing in this church? (and why does he have wings all of a sudden?)


We reached the most southern part of our trip here in Fussen on the German / Austrian border. We saw a lot of Barock churches today and here in Fussen things are very nice as well. Nobody is actually interested in Fussen itself, everyone who is here, is here for Neuschwanstein, which we will see tomorrow.
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