Neuschwanstein Castle on Romantic Road

July 29, 2012

The following day, we continued on the Romantic Road to Neuschwanstein Castle. We were very lucky. It started raining hard on our way to the castle on the bus but it stopped raining when we arrived at the castle.
The castle has magnificent landscape surrounding it.  We saw the castle from the Marien bridge, this was a good point for taking pictures of the castle.

The castle is famous as the model of Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland. It was not built as strategic but instead was built as a kind of a fairytale's castle to satisfy King Ludwig who yearned to be like a king in the medieval era. The king wanted to escape from the reality of life.

This is the Marien bridge from the castle. 

We took a tour to see the inside of the castle. Very crowded to enter

A beautiful scenery from the hill

I bought Feiler's Neuschwanstein Castle towels.

How cute they are!

By the way, I was also very impressive by many houses with solar power systems on their roofs in the countryside of Germany.

Rothenburg on Romantic Road

July 27~28, 2012

We flew to Frankfurt after staying one night in Seoul.

We stayed overnight in Frankfurt. The next day, we took a bus tour of Romantic Road at Frankfurt Central Station. "Romantic Road" refers to the road between Wurzburg and Fussen.

Its distance is about 500km. I had been thinking that the name "Romantic Road" literally came from beautiful romantic scenery. However, it was not correct. The road was used by Romans to go back to Rome in the old days, so the road was named Romantic Road. 

We stayed in Rothenburg. The city was charming. Houses and buildings were attractive. The city itself was a picture book. 

We participated the Night Watchman Tour. He told the history of Rothenburg with humor. 

His story was impressive. Rothenburg was protected from being destroyed during the World War II by an American captain; he couldn't give order to destroy the city since he had heard in his childhood from his mother how beautiful Rothenburg was. Thanks to his bravery, we now enjoy the pretty town. 

Prinzhotel Rothenburg

We stayed this hotel. The flowers decorated by windows were very pretty!

                                    
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Trip to Italy~~Frankfurt

We went on a trip to Italy for two weeks in June. We had a round trip flight on Lufthansa; it was very comfortable. It took about 12 hours to go from Narita to Frankfurt.
We enjoyed a day Frankfurt, and flew to Bari in Italy via Munich the following day.

 Frankfurt Romans

in front of the City Hall

Haagen-Dazs

Frankfurt is famous for Frankfurt sausages, so we enjoyed the sausages in a restaurant that one of the staff of our hotel had recommended.

Frankfurt sausages and sauerkraut

 Frankfurt sausage stew 

I met Mr. Frankfurt? on our way to a station.