Okay...so another road trip for Kris and Bruno. We took a long weekend to travel to Austria. First stop...Schwanngau, Germany, where a extravagant Bavarian King built an excessively expensive castle. The royal family originally lived in a beautifully modist castle. (photo 1.)
But then the king died and his son took the Throne. (There were 2 sons and 1 was declaired mentally insane.) So Ludwig was the new king. He didn't like the small castle and began building a new castle, Neuschwanstein. This castle is huge, it took 14 carpenters 4 years to complete his bedroom...excessive. Here's a small part of it... picture 2.
So the country was going into debt over this castle. (I think King Ludwig probably had a personality disorder and didn't play well with others.) The powers that be informed the King that he was unfit to be king and declaired him insane. A few hours later, they found the King and his Doctor dead in a lake under mysterious circumstances. The Castle was unfinished and Six weeks later was opened as a museum...Conspiracy???
We had a fun time and ate Bavarian Foods for dinner.
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