this was the view from our hotel room at the Hopfensee (Allgäu), where we spent Christmas. A very new experience for me, not to celebrate at home - but you drive 8 hours and a half by train - we didn't want to ask that from our 'children', who live in Kempten now, and have to work on Monday again.
It was utterly beautiful - sun as in May.
On the trip to the Hopfensee I thought for a moment that I was in the wrong film: a red little train passed us, coming from Füssen - and it was filled up to the last place with dark-haired young Asians. Japanese mostly, but also Chinese.
I wondered. Then, of course, the penny dropped.
Allgäu - Füssen - der Kini - König Ludwig II. - and: Schloß Neuschwanstein.
Which we saw for the very first time. To understand its bizzare architecture one look at the face of Ludwig might help:
Pfiat di!
Britta xxx
A long train ride to Bavaria and nearly to Austria I believe. I would have liked that. Many foreign visitors to see the strange castle, take photographs and then leave. It looks like an area where there is much beauty to stay for.
ReplyDeleteYes, you see the Allgäu Alps (I am a northerner - flat land - so I wish them in due distance (while son&DiL conquer them). It must have been the same visitors, Rachel: bustling from Germany to Great Britain.
DeleteWhat a magical view from your hotel window Britta - it must be over 30 years since I visited Schloss Neuschwanstein which we saw when staying at Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
ReplyDeleteThose little people from Japan and China are regularly seen here in the Cotswolds - they love Wm Morris and like to visit his home in Kelmscott and then the village of Bibury before travelling on to Oxford.
The view was really magical - one morning for a short while there was ice in the middle of the lake - a white brushstroke painted with largesse...
DeleteOh, I mixed something up from Rachel's comment: YOU saw the bustling people!
The castle is a fantasy; can you imagine the inside!
ReplyDeleteI HAD to imagine the inside, Joanne - because (as at the villa Borghese) we had forgotten that nowadays you have to book with your computer many days in advance... To be honest: I prefered the walk through the beautiful sunny woods with a lake along another castle, Schloss Hohenschwangau.
DeleteYou hopped into a fairy tale for Christmas. How fun.
ReplyDeleteYes Emma - though beautiful it looked a little bit as if someone had taken it from a Disney movie - or vice versa?
DeleteHow lucky you are - and such a beautiful fairytale castle.
ReplyDeleteYes, we were happy. I think poor King Ludwig II never had the chance.
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