It was the second day and I had had something exciting planned! The Neuschwanstein Castle is world-famous for being the inspiration of Disney’s Cinderella castle. One look at the shape and you’ll see the resemblance. Prior to our travel, I have done my research and decided not to go inside the castle but simply view it from the outside. Marien bridge is one of the best viewing spot but we’ll talk more about it later.
That morning, we had breakfast in our room, making use of the ensuite kitchen. We bought the ingredients the day before at the grocery store. Nothing too fancy but tomatoes and sausages do taste a lot better in Europe :D
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| Breakfast |
For our trip to Fussen, I had bought Bayern Tickets. This is ideal for groups up to 5 people, because you can save quite a bit! The ticket covers all regional bus and train rides in Bavaria for one day, and the second to fifth tickets in a group is only a fraction of the first ticket price. The tickets can be purchased online.
When we arrived at the train station, we still had sometime before the train is scheduled to depart. So we took the opportunity to explore the area around the station.
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| At the train station |
Finally it was time to board the train! By the time we got on the train there were no more seats so we had to stand. The train departed a little late. Then for some reason, in the middle of the way, the train stopped. It was a complete stop. No one knew what was happening and there was no announcement for a while. We stood still for about half an hour until they started moving again, with an announcement that there was a problem and everyone on board needed to alight at the next station, and catch a different train! In the end, we arrived more than an hour later than planned. The upside of this disturbance is that we got seats on the second train :D
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| Our train from Munich |
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Inside the train
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When we arrived in Fussen, we had to switch to a bus that will take us to Schwangau. Alas, we missed our stop and we went pretty far before we finally got off in the middle of nowhere and backtrack on another bus. Luckily we had our Bayern tickets so we didn’t have to pay extra for this mishap.
We got off our bus at the Schwangau station, and we walked our way up to the shuttle bus terminal. We could potentially walk our way up to the castle without the shuttle bus, but life is complicated enough. We are not keen on torturing ourselves haha. If you fancy a horse carriage, that is also an option. From the shuttle bus terminal we could see another castle nearby.
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| In the shuttle bus |
Rather than going straight to the Neuschwanstein castle, we headed to Marienbrucke first. This brigde is known to be the best viewing spot for the castle. There was a line up to go on the bridge as the capacity is limited, but the line moved pretty fast and the view from the bridge was indeed breathtaking.
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| Line up to go on the bridge |
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| Neuschwanstein Castle view from Marienbrucke |
After the bridge, we walked down towards the castle itself before making our way down to Schwangau. This time we walked because going down is a walk in the park ;)
From Schwangau, we took the bus back to Fussen. We had the chance to walk around Fussen a little bit while waiting for our train to go back to Munich. The train was late, and somewhere in the middle of the way we were stranded again and had to change to another train. Lol. Luckily I have booked a rental car for the next day. I’m not sure I can deal with this train shenanigans much longer :D
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| Fussen |
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| Fussen |
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| Stranded yet again |
And finally it’s dinner time! We ate in Munich near the hotel, food was good but not great.
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