Aaww...the Romantic Road in Bavaria. Beautiful is an understatement. Even in the rain, it was beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Welcome to Fussen! Tourist station city to see the Disneyland castle.
After the longest and most uncomfortable night of my life on a night train through Munich, we arrived in Fussen at about nine'o'clock. It was a holiday AND before 10'o'clock in the morning which meant that nothing was open, but we finally found a bakery.
Meet the Fussen crew: me, Chip, and Breanna. We're pretty proud of ourselves for finding and surviving our first hostel experience. The hostel was actually really cute and clean. Our roommate the first night was a 30-something Chinese woman and the second night we met this rough'n'tough bicycler from Spain. Probably the thing I'm most grateful for bringing on this trip is my hostel sheet which saved me from sleeping on other people's germs!
Castle #1: the yellow castle (I can't remember the name or say it), a.k.a. where Ludwig grew up. The lion fountain in the garden was kind of funny.
Look at all of the poor tourists huddled in the waiting courtyard hall for Neuschwanstein. The rain just dumped and within seconds all of these people were trying to fit underneath cover--the three of us were laughing while we were underneath our umbrellas and poncho-fied backpacks. It was so rainy the entire weekend!!!
Neuschwanstein is SO SO big! On Thursday we walked up to Neuschwanstein but it was so cloudy that you couldn't even see the tip of the castle spires when you were standing right next to it. We decided to wait to tour until Friday, considering the weather really couldn't get any worse. I was so happy the clouds stayed away on Friday so we could actually see the castle from Mary's Bridge!
After we toured the castles on Friday we hiked all over the Alps behind the castles and had incredible views. It felt like we had the mountain all to ourselves. All of the fog covering the mountains and canyons made the woods feel like a medieval forest straight out of Brothers Grimm. This was a scene straight off of a Bavarian post card. The small yellow castle was Ludwig's childhood home and the big white one was the one he built for fun and lived 100-something days in (...before the townspeople killed him for wasting all of their money...).
Castle #1: the yellow castle (I can't remember the name or say it), a.k.a. where Ludwig grew up. The lion fountain in the garden was kind of funny.
Look at all of the poor tourists huddled in the waiting courtyard hall for Neuschwanstein. The rain just dumped and within seconds all of these people were trying to fit underneath cover--the three of us were laughing while we were underneath our umbrellas and poncho-fied backpacks. It was so rainy the entire weekend!!! 
Cheesy, I know...but I couldn't resist!
Hey mom......I found a use for my poncho!!! :)
Neuschwanstein is SO SO big! On Thursday we walked up to Neuschwanstein but it was so cloudy that you couldn't even see the tip of the castle spires when you were standing right next to it. We decided to wait to tour until Friday, considering the weather really couldn't get any worse. I was so happy the clouds stayed away on Friday so we could actually see the castle from Mary's Bridge!
After we toured the castles on Friday we hiked all over the Alps behind the castles and had incredible views. It felt like we had the mountain all to ourselves. All of the fog covering the mountains and canyons made the woods feel like a medieval forest straight out of Brothers Grimm. This was a scene straight off of a Bavarian post card. The small yellow castle was Ludwig's childhood home and the big white one was the one he built for fun and lived 100-something days in (...before the townspeople killed him for wasting all of their money...). 
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