Today we are up at 6:30 and ready for an 8 am pick up for a bus tour to the Royal Castles. It is a good bus with wide view windows and comfortable seats; the guide’s talk is understandable and interesting. The country is beautiful and green; the houses are neat and all have small vegetable gardens with cold frames.
At the Royal Castles we walk in a cold wind off the Alpen See up to Hohenschwangau first. A highlight of the castle for us is seeing the music room with the piano played by Richard Wagner. Next we go down to the village for a good lunch before riding a horse cart up to the path to Neuschwanstein Castle. Walking up the path we have rain, snow, and hail! The castle has very fancy carvings and is overly decorated. We are not impressed by the interior, but the building has a fairy tale castle appearance.
On the way back to Munich the tour bus stops at the Wies Church, a pilgrimage church “in the meadow” that is plain on the outside, but the rococo interior is bright and beautiful, and well worth a detour to see.
Our last full day in Munich the weather is better, warm at times, so we start off walking to St. Michael Church, then watch the 11 am glockenspiel at the New City Hall, then on to the Food Market. It is a permanent market in the center of town that is very interesting with all kinds of food stores, open and enclosed. We walk on to the Deutsches Museum, devoted to science and technology, which is packed with teen aged young people looking at and operating the interactive exhibits; we particularly enjoy the aeronautics section.
We trolley back to the RR station and buy tickets for the train to Austria (#15) and Salzburg tomorrow. It has been a very enjoyable six night visit to the Munich area, in spite of what is (we hope) unusually cold weather for the first half of May.
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