Monday, May 16

       Monday was the complete opposite of Sunday, as we went to one of the more happier places in Bavaria which is Neuschwanstein, the castle built by King Ludwig II in the 19^th Century and the same castle Disneyland in California based their famous castle off of. In my opinion the sights from the castle were more beautiful than the castle itself. King Ludwig built it halfway up a mountain, so there are beautiful views looking out from the castle across the valley below. I was so focused on taking pictures of that view that I even forgot to get in the group picture we took! Honestly the castle was a little less impressive than what I had expected, but I guess that was because I was comparing it to the Disneyland castle. That being said, the inside was jaw dropping, and I could see why King Ludwig’s relatives got so mad at him for spending all of their money on this unnecessary extravagance and why Ludwig “disappeared” after only completing 15 of the 80 rooms in the castle. Each room was so detailed and so extraordinary, and the tour guide told us that Ludwig’s master bedroom took 5 years to complete, which is insane. After a short tour of the 10 or so completed rooms we were allowed to see the group headed back outside to walk back down to where the bus was and head to a little town called Fuessen. Fuessen was about 15 minutes away from the castle and we were given about an hour to walk around and look at all the little shops in the city center. It was really nice and cute, and the dessert we got was amazing, but at this point a lot of those small towns began to look the same for me. When we got back to Augsburg at around 5 my group worked some more on our project and make sure we had everything we needed for Wednesday’s presentation.