And today we go to Versailles.
Versailles: Loius XIV, XV and XVI’s monument
to excess and decadence. No wonder the people
revolted. Luckily the palace survived
the revolution, as I’m sure it is a great money spinner now for the French. Just like Ludwig’s tributes to the Sun King
back in Bavaria are huge tourist attractions.
We met Shaz, Shan and Ken at Abbesses and metro’d our way,
with a little bit of getting lost between line changes for just that little bit
of added excitement, to our RER station at Musèe d’Orsay.
Now today we put into practice our well
learnt lesson from yesterday; we were at Linderhof Castle not long after
opening, joining the very next tour at 9:30. Yay!
Now this castle was a lot smaller, and set
in large, extensive grounds and gardens, and so was very different to the Neuschwanstein
Castle we'd visited the day before.
Ludwig had
Linderhof built to replicate and celebrate the French baroque period and as a
tribute to Sun King Louis XIV, who Ludwig totally idolised.
Today’s plan of up early didn’t quite
eventuate, but at least it was still morning when we left the house. Neuschwanstein Castle was on the agenda for today. I figured it would be an easy day, just one
castle, not too hard….
After a quick detour into Grainau for a fruitless search for Weisswurtz we had a gute fahrt through the Bavarian countryside, passing more ruined castles atop hill tops.
