Leaving the Rhine and headed for Bavaria

Sunday, May 26, 2013
    We left the boat this morning and took a taxi to pick up our rental car in a nearby town.  We have a VW minivan with satellite navigation - very handy.  We head southeast to Lake Constance or Bodensee as they say in Germany.  We stopped in the town of Meersburg for lunch, which would have been a lovely place to sit at a cafe and enjoy the view of the (very large) lake, but it was 5 degrees Celsius out and, after buying some gloves and a warm hat, we left for Fussen which our destination for the night.  Why Fussen? Because it is very near to tomorrow's main attraction - the Neuschwanstein Castle.
  We made it to Fussen about 4:00 and checked into the Hotel Hirsch which is a charming place.  The town was very quiet as today was Sunday and also a holiday here.  Mike and I walked around a bit exploring, then decided to drive to the neighboring town to take pictures of the castle lit up at night.  We accidentally turned on the wrong road and ended up in Austria(!), which actually was just a few kilometers away, so we turned around and got back to Germany where we belonged!
  There area actually two castles, Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein.  Both are lit up at night so we spent some time trying on get good pictures of them even though one is quite a ways up on a hill.  Mike saw two fox on our way back but I missed them somehow. We went back to our hotel to a nice warm bed.