Neuschwanstein Castle, as seen from Marienbrücke, a 130 year-old bridge suspended 92 metres above the Pöllat gorge. Nestled on a woody ridge between the snowy mounts of the German Alps and lake-strewn pastures of Southern Bavaria, the white castle encapsulates the Wagnerian visions of a king born too late for the Romance of chivalry and epics of minstrels. A fiscal nightmare turned dream destination, the doomed monarch's refuge now holds court to bedazzled streams of postcard senders, who ascend the windy slopes to pay homage to a drowned soul whose private fantasy has outlived the thousand years of a lesser Reich.
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30 January 2005
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omg omg omg the famous castle!!! *swoon*
my birthday gift at age 10 was a jigsaw of this place
Posted by: simian | 31 January 2005 at 03:03 AM
Can we go there again? I heard that running at high altitudes promotes haemoglobin increase.
*sore at not being able to donate blood*
Posted by: mrs budak | 31 January 2005 at 09:32 AM
Pity that King Ludwig II did not get to stay this castle and me not being able to visit it while I was in Munich :D
Posted by: Edwyn | 01 February 2005 at 08:44 AM