Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Within spitting distance of Neuschwanstein is Castle Hohenstein.... This is the older family castle of Crazy Prince Ludwig..... Go there as well... There is a little hotel there called... Rose something or something Rose.... right on the lake that Ludwig drowned in. Very nice. There is a small restaurant in the town as well.... To be honest, without the surrounds, most of these castles do look the same. It is the environment that changes them and puts them into context.... Many of the Austrian Empire castles are painted a rather odd color of yellow..... and are really fancy houses more than the traditional "Castle" of medieval times.... There are enough museums in Vienna to keep you busy for a long while.... all kinds of interesting things on display and specialized. Sacher Hotel Ring Strasse coffee shops..... which require the use of some rather arcane protocol to get coffee and a sweet.... that we never could figure out..... Frank Filippone red735i at earthlink.net