Friday, July 18, 2008

Fussen Germany and Bregenz Austria

June 28th and 29th

We enjoyed our trip to Fussen Germany so much! As we arrived in Fussen, we first wandered around the town and the woods. While exploring the woods we caught a crawdad! I didn't think they existed in Europe, but I guess they do! We went to this great medieval style restaurant that cooked our food on a spit. Some of the best German food I have ever had! plus the atmosphere was great! There was some kind of festival while we were there and saw a medieval style parade with drum music and costumes while we were eating. Twas nice. Plus Ryan ended up being put in the stocks. We had a rough night because the hotel gave our beds to other people right before we arrived at the hotel, we ended up sleeping on a cot set up in the kitchen at the hotel! In the morning, we were very tired since we had less than 5 hours of sleep and had to be out of the kitchen by 6 am, we made our way over to where the castles were. We had fun with the fountains at the first castle and took a horse ride up to the fairy tale Neuschwanstein castle! It was gorgeous! We took our guided tour and even snuck a couple pictures of the inside, they are going for about 6 million on ebay. ha ha. It was so cool! We saw the awesome views of Swan lake and enjoyed the castle. We played around in the park for a while and pretended that we were spiders and tried balancing on beams and what not. Then our train came and whisked us away to Bregenz and Lindau. The lake Bodensee is a very interesting and gorgeous lake. It touches 3 countries, Germany, Austira, and Switzerland. So we went around the lake and we hung out in Germany for the morning, had lunch in Austria, and in the evening we went to see the soccer game in Switzerland. We enjoyed our stay in Bregenz so much! We enjoyed swimming in the lake and eating ice cream!!! Ice cream is so expensive in Switzerland that we don't get any. So it is a delicacy to us. I think we had like 3 ice cream cones while we were there, yum! Later in the evening we headed back to Switzerland and watched the last and final game of the Euro 08. Germany vs. Spain. I was a little sad, we were rooting for Germany, but they were playing so bad! The rumor floating around is that they were so happy to be in the finals that they celebrated too hard and were playing with hang overs. sad. oh well, it was such a great trip! even though we spent the night sleeping on the same cot in a kitchen, it was definetly worth it!

1 comment:

wray and nat said...

OOH!!!! Thanks for your stories.
It's so much fun to live vicariosly through you guys.
Just seeing all the awesome pictures of the castles , beautiful scenery, food's you're enjoying/ tasting. etc.
So much fun!!!!
Sarah hope you're collecting some awesome recipe's so you can cook for us when you get back...:)