Southern Germany’s Romantic Road (Romantische Straße) is a picturesque 350km route through the forests and mountains of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Its northern endpoint is Würzburg, a wine-region city known for the Residenz, an 18th-century baroque palace. In the south it ends at Füssen, in the foothills of the Alps, near King Ludwig II’s iconic Neuschwanstein Castle.
We drove the road from south to north, beginning in Fussen (above) and ending in Würzburg, passing through 30 villages and towns over six days.
Fussen is in the Schwangau area of Bavaria, very close to the Austrian border. We went up the chairlift, through the clouds, to the local highest peak, the Zugspitze.
On the way we passed Neuschwanstein Castle, the 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the town. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honour of Richard Wagner.
At the top there were a number of people jumping off the top of the mountain into the cloud.
Coming down through the cloud to the only mid-way cable support. It was very steep.
We had a good view of the sled course on the way down.
The sleds get towed up to the top of the course - then it's up to gravity.
The sleds have a brake and the red triangular signs tell you when to slow down.
Paul loved it and would have kept going (again and again) if it hadn't been closing time.
More magnificent scenery!!
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