So after breakfast we met in the lobby to meet up and make our way to the train station under the hotel. We needed to make our way to the Central train station. The meeting point for the tour was over the road...
We picked the first bus and after handing over our voucher we made our way upstairs and got comfy on the bus. We had a presentation from the guide with what was to happen during the course of the day. We passed beautiful country side after leaving the city behind us....we also saw to Katie's excitement snow (old snow but none the less SNOW) frozen lakes and ponds as we went by. Loads of ice on roads of the main roads too.
The closer we got to first stop there was more of the white stuff. Our first stop was to the Schloss (Castle) Linderhof. This is the smallest of the three castles built by King Ludwig II .
It was a smaller version of Versailles. Especially when you get to see the hall of mirrors...much more impressive as its only a room but the way the have positioned the mirrors it looks a lot longer and larger. After leaving the castle we started to walk back to the bus. Jason, Katie and Evan decided to walk through the snow to meet us back a small lake we passed. Katie made her first snow angel and Jason had a tumble in the snow.
They met up with us again and Terri and Greg both had a tumble on the ice. After buying some post cards we were back on the bus and headed to a small town called Oberammergau. It was surrounded by the Alps and many of the buildings had muriels on them depicting fairy tales of brothers grimm.
After 40min break here we headed off to Neuschwanstein Castle the one which Walt Disney copied. On arriving here we had over three hours before leaving to go back to Munich. Jason and Evan headed off to a lake Terri & Greg started to walk up the mountain to the castle.
Our tour started a 3.30 so we had about 2 hours to fill in. Katie & I waited in line for an hour to be taken up the mountain by horse and cart. The poor 2 horses had to pull up 14 of us.
Once we arrived the other 4 were waiting for us. It had started to rain and Jason mentioned it would probably snow later that evening but after we leave. We all thought it would be great to leave the castle after our tour and be greeted by snow. It was a great view from near the base of the castle over looking lakes, villages and snow skiers.
It was getting colder so found a nice warm room to wait in until our tour starts. They have on average 6000 people through the castle each day so you are allotted times. If you miss your time slot there is no chance your ticket will let you through. The main feature everyone enjoyed where all the paintings. No pictures were allowed to be taken so I told off 3 people and mentioned it to our guide. We saw the famous bridge most photos are taken from but had been closed for winter because it is far to dangerous. Ludwigs castle is magical and can see why Walt Disney copied it for his fantasy. After this we headed outside to walk back down to catch the bus. Once outside it was starting to snow and we all got excited about it. Back on the bus with 10 minutes to spare.
There was still 2 people missing by the departure time and the guide was contacting base to get permission to leave without them. Never make a German late. Fortunately they showed up 10 minutes late and we were off. Lots of sleepy people on the bus. It is a 2 hour trip back to Munich. We arrived on time at 6.40pm and decided to find dinner in the city. Came across a pub called Pauleners it was full of Germans so thought it would be good. We were right great food and beer. After this straight back to the hotel for sleep and another big day ahead.
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