This weekend was a long weekend for me, so Natalya & I went to Neuschwanstein Castle and to Munich. The picture is not one that was taken by me but by “mildog” (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattandrhya/). Hopefully, I can exchange the one above for one we took, but I haven’t transferred the pictures from the camera to the computer yet. The day was beautiful and warm, despite the few days prior being mostly cloudy and raining most of the day. We toured the castles and stopped at a restaurant on the way, and didn’t get Zorba’d, thank god. I’ll have to explain the phenomenom of “being Zorba’d” in a later post, and some tips on how to avoid it. Anyway, the restaurant was fantastic, for that type of food, which was Bayern (Bavarian) food. I had the lamb schnitzel and Natalya had the Cordon Bleu. It really hit the spot.
On to Munich (München). We stayed at a hotel not too far from the city center. We got a parking spot on the street, which was lucky—some guy just happened to be pulling out at that time, so we didn’t have to pay for parking and I didn’t get a ticket. The hotel was right next to a subway/metro/underground/u-bahn stop so we were able to use that to get around the city for the rest of our time in Munich. That night we went out for some drinks on a portion of Ludwigstrasse that the hotel clerk recommended to us. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t all that great either. He also told us where the best club area was, too, and we were thinking about going, but the day had been long enough for us.
The next day we spent walking around Munich and taking pictures and shopping. It was nice. On our way back to Heidelberg, we stopped at Dachau, one of the concentration camps from WWII. We got there shortly after 1800 so the exhibition hall was closed, but we were able to get inside the gates and see the remade barracks that showed how detainees (as we would call them today) were housed back then. We were on our way back to the crematorium when a guy said they were closing up for the day so we missed that and we left.
We live just over one of the bridges here in Heidelberg. We were just about to cross the bridge when we noticed some policemen getting ready to pull a barrier onto the street to block the bridge off. We got to the other side and they already blocked the right turn lane and fortunately we were able to go straight. We realized it was time for the third “Castle Lighting” of the year and we were just in time for it. I thought I’d never find any parking, but I got the last of the illegal-but-probably-not-too-illegal-to-get-you-towed parking spots and there was much rejoicing. We put our stuff in the apartment and headed straight back to the bridge to watch the fireworks. More on the Castle Lighting here (http://www.e-heidelberg.com/attractions/attractions.html#fire). It’s not all that great and there’s always a huge crowd, but it’s something. I think if it was once a year, maybe the fireworks would be better, but then the crowd would be worse. Hmm.
Sunday & Monday we didn’t do much, but that was just what we needed.
Anyway, it was a great weekend. Perfecto!
On to Munich (München). We stayed at a hotel not too far from the city center. We got a parking spot on the street, which was lucky—some guy just happened to be pulling out at that time, so we didn’t have to pay for parking and I didn’t get a ticket. The hotel was right next to a subway/metro/underground/u-bahn stop so we were able to use that to get around the city for the rest of our time in Munich. That night we went out for some drinks on a portion of Ludwigstrasse that the hotel clerk recommended to us. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t all that great either. He also told us where the best club area was, too, and we were thinking about going, but the day had been long enough for us.
The next day we spent walking around Munich and taking pictures and shopping. It was nice. On our way back to Heidelberg, we stopped at Dachau, one of the concentration camps from WWII. We got there shortly after 1800 so the exhibition hall was closed, but we were able to get inside the gates and see the remade barracks that showed how detainees (as we would call them today) were housed back then. We were on our way back to the crematorium when a guy said they were closing up for the day so we missed that and we left.
We live just over one of the bridges here in Heidelberg. We were just about to cross the bridge when we noticed some policemen getting ready to pull a barrier onto the street to block the bridge off. We got to the other side and they already blocked the right turn lane and fortunately we were able to go straight. We realized it was time for the third “Castle Lighting” of the year and we were just in time for it. I thought I’d never find any parking, but I got the last of the illegal-but-probably-not-too-illegal-to-get-you-towed parking spots and there was much rejoicing. We put our stuff in the apartment and headed straight back to the bridge to watch the fireworks. More on the Castle Lighting here (http://www.e-heidelberg.com/attractions/attractions.html#fire). It’s not all that great and there’s always a huge crowd, but it’s something. I think if it was once a year, maybe the fireworks would be better, but then the crowd would be worse. Hmm.
Sunday & Monday we didn’t do much, but that was just what we needed.
Anyway, it was a great weekend. Perfecto!
1 comment:
Nice way to enjoy the long weekend. One of these days we will be able to travel to Germany/Europe. We will have to hook up!
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