Binder Family Travel Adventures

Today we were part of a tour group that took us to (mad) King Ludwig II’s infamous castle (the one Disney modeled his after).

After hearing the whole story, I am not so sure he was mad, more just a guy that wanted to build (several) extravagant castles far away from people and be left alone…only problem…he was a king… He was overheard talking to dead people, so he might have been crazy.

Pictures were not allowed inside either of the castles we went into, so only outside pictures today.

Our first stop is the site of his childhood home, Schloss Hohenschwangau, he spent some time here, and I guess enjoyed it enough.

Then, as an adult he decided to build his own castle on a mountain that towered over Hohenschwangua. Neuschwanstein, which was being built from 1869 to 1886, construction stopped when the King died and it was never finished. Only a third of the rooms were finished. He had a set designer first design the castle, because it wanted it to be a Fayetteville take castle.

After the castles, we had lunch, stopped in a small town. It had several of these painted buildings.

Then we headed on to his Linderhof castle, he spent more time there. It was considerably smaller, but had big, pretty gardens.

We ate at a local restaurant (McDonald’s again) and retired for the day. We tried for two actual local restaurants, but after long waits at both, we gave up and resigned to McD’s…apparently everyone eats Sunday at 7pm.