My Adventurings: October 2014

Where did I go Saturday? Neuschwanstein. Neuschwanstein?

Yes, Noishvonstine. Otherwise known as "the Disney castle."

Which castle? This castle!

Wait, wait, which castle?

This castle.

YES. THE castle that EVERYONE knows about.

That's my lovely head blocking out the lovelier castle for you. :P

For the low, low price of zero Euros (well, we already paid for it in our tuition but zero Euros makes it sound awesome!) our school went to Bavaria for the day. The bus ride took two hours, but as we pulled up, the castle came into view and we I ~~were~~ was freaking out!!! I've wanted to see this castle for awhile and it felt just like a fairy tale walking through the woods with the fog and seeing castle.

The above photos were taken on a bridge looking towards the castle. We also got to enter the courtyard and take some cool photos there.

The view from inside the courtyard. Those are the main gates.

In the upper courtyard looking at the main part of the castle.

Beautiful doors. Beautiful mountains.

Below: the main entrance. I believe this was added in the 1800's.

Mad Ludwig was the king during the building of Neuschwanstein. In fact, that was his "baby" and his people were taxed to death in order to build it. He had a castle, which we also visited, but it wasn't good enough for him. He may have been mad, but he sure knew how to build a castle. The the left is Hohenschwangau and below are photos of this yellow castle, its courtyard, horses, and me at the Alpsee.

Here's a picture of Neuschwanstein from the courtyard of Hohenschwangau.

I ended up purchasing a bier stein, or beer mug, made by hand in Germany for only 12 euros.

I'll post a picture later. The day was beautiful in the fog and rain but I was definitely ready to go home by the time the buses left at 2:30. We had dinner and ended up watching a Germany vs Poland soccer game! I've never seen the Germans so patriotic. Sadly, for them, Poland won.

Till the next blog post! Thank you all so much for reading my blog.

Grüezi!!

That is the Swiss German word for "hello" and was heard a lot as we passed the Swiss (read: the Swiss passed us) on the hike up Ebanalp.

This is a picture of a map of where we hiked.

We started on the bottom left, "Wasserauen" and hiked up to the Seealpsee (literally, LakeAlpLake), backtracked a little, and followed path number 8 to Ebanalp (which is on the mid-upper right of the map).

Yes, I was the slowest. Yes, I felt like I was dying most of the time. Part of that was the breathtaking views! The weather was perfect and God blessed our eyes with His stunning creation.

Most of this blogpost will just be photos, because God's handiwork can speak for itself. For me, it was such a challenge, but worth it.

It wasn't just getting to the top of the Alp.

The hike was the experience.

The photos with a lake is the Seealpsee(middle left) and all of the others are along the hike. ALSO, make sure you scroll side to side or click on the pictures. I put them up at original size.