97 Days, 12 Countries, 1 Kangoo

I'll be brief since we walked about 10 miles today and our feet are killing us.
King Ludwig and his family have way too many residences. Our innkeeper (Carol Lenz of Pension Lenz) convinced us this morning that visiting one of the Ludwig's palaces was not enough, we HAD to see them all. So off on the S-Bahn to the bus to the tram to a walk to the U-Bahn to the S-Bahn to a really long walk and we saw most of the things Carol had recommended. Here's what we do know: if you were rich, you had a different coach (carriage, not purse) for every occasion. And it seems there were about 4,865 occasions during the Ludwig's reign. Just when you thought you had seen enough horse bridles, there was a whole other room to see (HAY, have we seen enough horse bridles or what???).

After seeing all the 5 castles that make up the Nymphenburg Palace, we headed to the other side of the city to see the main Residenz. As you can probably tell from the pictures, they were cookoo for Rococo. It was Rococo madness. It was Rococo-nuts. I think my dreams tonight will be guilded in gold. Okay, took that joke too far.

By this time we had spent a solid 6 hours on our feet, so we made our way to the Biergarten inside the beautiful Englischer Gartens, which is the largest city park in Europe. And maybe the only city park complete with a few hundred people drinking beer.

The pics:
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Our next few days are up in the air, so we may not be checking in too much. We're off to Dachau tomorrow morning and then making our way down the Romantic Road. After that we hope to see some of Rothenberg, Stuttgart, and Trier before heading towards Belgium.

Enjoy the pics and please keep the comments/email coming!!!

XO Taice and Chris