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Bavaria

5/25/2017

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20-21 May 2017

We drove from Munich, after picking up our next rental car (an Opel, not the Fiat 500 again), to Peißenberg (pronounced Pie-Sen-Boorg), a small town in the middle of the Bavarian region.
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We stayed here two nights in an apartment where we felt very much at home.  The Bavarian version of a pot belly stove was an especially nice touch.  The host and her husband lived just upstairs and provided fresh breads both mornings, as well as did our laundry.
A Bavarian church and monastery.  Very scenic surroundings.  Paved bicycle trails going everywhere.
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Another church in Bavaria.  See the Alps in the background.
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"Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was built by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat. The palace has appeared prominently in several movies such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Great Escape and served as the inspiration for Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle."
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Ludwig's hunting castle nearby.
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The city of Füssen, and St Mang's Basilica and former monastery.  We took a long walking tour winding all around the city.  A town of 15,000, small, friendly and quiet, not a tour bus in sight.
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To the left a senior living home with an attached cool old church - see the walkway over to it.
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"Welcome to Tirol Resort Region of Reutte" or something to that effect - we enter Austria for the first time.  This arched bridge allows wildlife to move safely across the roadway (fences encourage them to use it). 
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What 300 feet of free space looks like below your feet, as viewed through the bottom of a 1300 foot suspension bridge.
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Yes, it swayed a bit.  But what a view from the middle - cheaper than a helicopter.
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That drooping ribbon of the steel to the left is the suspension bridge - a world's record for pedestrian suspension bridges.  We parked in the valley pass below it, walked up the far side, crossed the bridge, then recrossed it to check out the fortress ruins.
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Gliders zooming over our heads, this one skywriting in the background (okay not really, just a coincidental jet trail in its background).
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Two forms of solar power, fields of gold and green, and cells creating electrical power at a lumberyard.
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Another Bavarian maypole telling this town's story to us as we head "home" for the night.
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1 Comment
mary
6/1/2017 11:05:33 am

Beautiful scenery, love the domes on the churches.

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