Saturday, May 17, 2008
Neuschwanstein
Tonight I'm in Barcelona. The travel from Munich was very smooth (exit row!), and I indulged myself this morning by just staying at the hostel and chatting with Carole online for hours. We both feel really caught up in our own "world" and that it's hard to keep track of everyone and reality. I feel like it takes 100% of my focus to travel, communicate, feed myself and take in all the beauty of these new experiences. It's hard to think about my summer job, grad school next fall or nagging details like taxes and insurance. Anyway, pictures from my daytrip from Munich:
I decided to come to Munich for several reasons. The big two were that I'd never been to Germany, and to see Neuschwanstein castle. I had always considered this to be the perfect, fairytale castle. It's a bit difficult to reach: I had to figure out three trains, a bus and a 40 minute hike to get there (it took about 3 hours). These first few pictures are from their website, because they wouldn't let us take pictures inside "for copyright reasons."
The castle was built quite recently (for a castle) from 1869 - 1886 by King Ludwig II. Only 18 rooms are actually completed inside because he was declared insane at the age of 40 and found drowned in a lake with his psychiatrist (Murder? Suicide? Murder/suicide?) The king was great friends with Wagner, and designed the castle in homage to him. For example, the paintings in the kings bedroom are all from Wagner's opera,
Tristan and Isolde. He also had a cave created in the castle below the music hall. While his orchestra played above, he could enjoy the opera in a dark seculded cave. Great, huh?
Here's the view of another castle from the hilltop.
The mountains in the distance.
My views of the castle.
I took this on the train ride. I think it almost looks like an oil painting through the dirty window. Like something out of a chocolate commercial.
I decided to come to Munich for several reasons. The big two were that I'd never been to Germany, and to see Neuschwanstein castle. I had always considered this to be the perfect, fairytale castle. It's a bit difficult to reach: I had to figure out three trains, a bus and a 40 minute hike to get there (it took about 3 hours). These first few pictures are from their website, because they wouldn't let us take pictures inside "for copyright reasons."
Here's the view of another castle from the hilltop.
The mountains in the distance.
My views of the castle.
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Personally, I think I would enjoy opera a lot more if I could listen to it in my own secluded cave...
I like your chocolate-commercial description.