The life and times of a pop-culture junkie and music addict living in Arlington, Virginia
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Today is a Bavarian public holiday. Public holidays here usually mean I’m traveling somewhere.
Most of my travel is by rail, and I see lots of really neat graffiti. This one caught my eye in the Düsseldorf area.
Do you have a favorite graffiti?
I’m on an August Break from my regular blogging schedule. Here’s today’s picture.
The Altstadt is full of cobblestone and tiny alleyways. This sort of view? It’s an everyday sight here.
I’m on an August Break from my regular blogging schedule. Here’s today’s pictures.
I finally made it out to Schloss Neuschwanstein this weekend, as a Saturday day-trip with Jenny and her boyfriend Robert. King Ludwig II’s famous castle was the inspiration for Disney’s Cinderella’s Castle. Roughly one and a half million people come to the castle every year, and I think about a third of them were present while we were visiting.
I encourage you to click through to the full sized pictures, because I purposely saved them to be huge and awesome. I may use one of them as my desktop for a while. The castle is nestled in the Alps, and it makes the views amazing.
When approaching the castle from the roadway into Schwangau, this is your first view of it:
Inside Schwangau, there are sections of roadway that are closed to cars- but open to bicycles and horse drawn carriages. I love that they have signs for this.
Where a heavy tourism market springs up, so must there be signs. Lots and lots of signs. This one tells you that there’s a bathroom 150 meters to the right, and points out ways to reach both castles, the Museum of Bavarian Kings, and the Alpsee (Alp lake).
This is the view taken from the castle ramparts. This scene includes the town of Schwangau, the other castle (Hohenschwangau,) and the Alpsee. Plus a small portion of the Alps themselves.
Most everyone who goes to Neuschwanstein walks around back to the Marienbrücke, a small pedestrian bridge that looks over the backside. On a crowded day, the bridge looks like this:
Fighting those crowds is worth it though, because then you can get these next three shots:
Have you ever been to Schloss Neuschwanstein? What’s your favorite castle?
I’m on an August Break from my regular blogging schedule. Here’s today’s pictures.
Regensburg is fairly popular with tourists. Besides having a first rate Dom and a great Stone Bridge that has been in use since the Crusades. We’re also on the Donau river, and the river tour boats like to stop here, so it’s not uncommon to see tour groups in the Altstadt on weekends.
There’s also this, the city tour. I went on it once- It was interesting, but not the sort of thing I’d bother doing over again. It’s fun to see this winding its way through the city on weekends though- if you hang out for a while, you’ll see it two or three times in a day.
Have you ever been a tourist in your own city?
I’m on an August Break from my regular blogging schedule. Here’s today’s picture.
Germans love their Eis, or ice cream. Especially on a hot day. Every day, I see people with ice cream cones. Yesterday, I rode past one “Eiscafe” that had a line out the door.
Even these guys took the time for an ice cream break.
What’s your favorite flavor? (Mine is chocolate, naturally.)
Whimsy. Tacos. The DMV. 