Another early start to be on the tour bus at 8:30am. Today we are going to Neuschwanstein and Linderhof castles built by Ludwig the second. Our tour guide was quite a lively old fellow who liked to repeat himself and recap our trip 'so far' as we went about the day. First stop Linderhof castle. Built by the king Ludwig who hated crowds and like to be a loner, so therefore he had the castle built in the hilly region where no one would be likely to find him. We ...

We thought we wouldn't overload you with two days in one blog so here's the 12th August first :) Today we had organized a tour to Dachau in the morning and then a brewery tour in the evening. We started with a hearty breakfast of cereal, croissants and multivitamin juice, then we set out to find our tour meeting point. Which would also be the meeting point for the evening tour. We met our tour guide, Stephen, under the glockenspiel in Marienplatz. He was a funn...

Yesterday was pretty much a travel day. We left our hotel, had an argument with the train ticket lady because we had no PIN on our credit card when paying for the tickets and she refused to believe it, just shaking her head and telling us to put in our PIN (in Polish) and us repeating no we can't we aren't magic. We saw two chinese ladies carrying their massive suitcases and a Polish man stopped to help them up he stairs at the station, they said no, he helped an...