Neuschwanstein Castle! An eternal mystery

It has been my 4th time here the 2nd for Sharon; honestly I'm impressed all the times I come to visit this castle.

It's huge, amazing, mysterious, scenic, and thousand words are still not enough to describe the feeling you can prove when you reach the top of the hill.

It's not only beatiful, but simply a shocking proof of european engineering and manufacturing quality if you consider that some of its bulding technics (end of 19th century) has been only recently introduced in... Malaysia for the development of new housing estate! (120 years later).

We've been lucky because we arrived in Fussen for a late lunch (1:30pm) and we did take our time to enjoy the first local meal. We approched the Castle's ticket office at 3pm to found that selling tickets was for the next day approx lunch time. Lucky, I was telling, because 2 korean tourist approched Sharon (probably because of the asian features) and asked whether we was interested to buy 2 tickets for the tour. With our surprise, the tour was in 1 hour time, just nice to walk up to the hill and wait a while there. I was a bit scare to buy, but after I saw that they was in tour group, well, I said to Sharon: "she can cheat me for only 18,- euro" and did take the risk. Everything okay (Koreans are not Italians) and our afternoon has been great.

The atmosphere you can feel inside the castle is something can't be described here, all the times.

It was almost 7pm when we reach the main plaza nearby the ticket office, so we decide to complete our first day in romantic way; we take a room at the hotel in the castle area and spent a sweet night over there. Our dinner ? Italian pizza in an italian restaurant in Fussen, ready for an energetic next day ahead....

[to be continued...]

King Ludwig II.
King of Bavaria 1864 - 1886,

* 25. 8. 1845 Nymphenburg,

† 13. 6. 1886 in Lake Starnberg.

http://www.neuschwanstein.de/english/index.htm

Even before he died, the king had already become something of a legend. "I want to remain an eternal mystery to myself and others", Ludwig once told his governess, and it is this mysterious element that still fascinates people today. The poet Paul Verlaine called Ludwig II the "only true king of this century". The shy dreamer, who had none of the typical characteristics of a popular king, lives on, still idolized, as "the Kini".

His palaces, which were barred to strangers, have been visited by over 50 million people since his death. They are records in stone of the ideal fantasy world which the king built as a refuge from reality. His historic, poetic and ideal interpretation of his role as king was finally his downfall. It is possible that he preferred to die rather than return to reality.