Munich, Neuschwanstein Castle, and Ulm

Jessica and I decided to visit Munich for the weekend. So we booked out train tickets and headed out. We took the 5:40 AM train there (since that’s the cheapest tickets and we are college students) and three transfers later we were there at 11:15 AM… like I said really cheap tickets. We decided to take a short nap and then hit the city… well by short I mean 2 hours. Then we hit the city. We walked around explored and conquered the city. Later we went to a nice Donner Kebab restaurant and then went to our hostel’s bar and meet a number or other young travelers. But we decided to venture out and found an ½ Australian Bar and a ½ Irish Bar… we’re not sure how that worked out but we gave it shot. It wasn’t very interesting and we were actually the youngest person by 20 years so we quickly left and made it back to the hostel for a good nights sleep before our adventure packed day.

The next day we went to the Neuschwanstein castle located right outside Munich. It was the inspiration for the Disney Castle at Disneyland and Disneyworld. It was built by King Ludwig. It took approximately 17 years to build and King Ludwig only lived in for a couple of months before he died. This castle was what I would call a little overdone and somewhat His death is considered to be very controversial. Germany was in major debt and could hardly run the country but King Ludwig not only built this castle but 3 others. At the time of his death Germany was 34,000 marks in debt- which was approximately as much as three times the cost of his castles. But his death was suspicious because he was declared insane and put into an institution. So the German government, in order to stop him from spending more money declared him insane and put an end to his spending. Don’t get any ideas mom and dad.

Then finally on Sunday we went to Ulm. The place where Einstein was born and the church that has the highest spire in all of Europe. Obviously we had to climb it! We were victorious but man were we soar!