Staying true to Jami travelling form, I am sick. What had started off as an annoying cough has turned into an awesome full-blown head cold. Add in some jet lag and you have one zombified Jami. Nevertheless, we have continued our ventures through Germany and will be crossing the border into Austria in the next day or so.
The main tourist attraction we wanted to see in Heidelberg was the Heidelberg Castle. It was my first ever real castle sighting and it was pretty cool. Of course in order to see the inside you had to pay for the tour so we just spent an hour checking out what we could from the outside before getting back on the road. I think Bob’s favourite part was the wine barrel the size of our house. Castle – check.
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After some recommendations from a family friend our next two towns to hit up were Rothenburg de ob Tauber and Dinklesbuhl. Both are really neat little towns, each surrounded by town walls. I give Rothenburg the upper hand because they had these delicious fried dough balls that are covered in icing sugar called schneeballen. I had two… Bob got a bite. We continued our hunt for beer stiners as well but haven’t found the perfect ones yet.
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We ended the day in Ulm just for ease of a place to stay and quick access to Fussen and the Neuschwanstein Castle the next morning, but we found out it is also home to the tallest church in Germany, the Ulm Minter and the birth place of Albert Einstein. The church was pretty impressive and for €4,00 you can climb to the top of the steeple. Unfortunately my sweet cold prevented me from wanting to do the 762 stair climb. Next time. There were also these strange painted birds all over the place that we couldn’t really figure out. I decided that they are the Germany equivalent to the Calgary cows.
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For the record, I am better navigator than Bob. We walked by the parkade where we parked twice before Bob listened to me and found our car parked inside. Me > Bob.
Neuschwanstein Castle is as amazing as it looks in pictures except it is covered in scaffolding and you have to walk 30 minutes up a mountain to see it. We paid the extra money for a walking tour (in english! I love english) and got to see the 17 rooms that were finished before the king went crazy and was murdered. The tour guide almost jumped out of her skin when a dumbass tourist thought it would be a good idea to touch one of the 300 year old hand painted walls. Good job lady.
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Now were are in Munich with plans to see the Dachau concentration camp and Hitler’s tea house today before heading to Austria. We may also brave the weird streets of Munich and finally find our stiners.