Now, just who influenced who? Walt Disney may have received inspiration from King Ludwig II of Bavareia and his creation the Neuschwanstein castle near Schwangau, but how many people come to Neuschwanstein because Sleeping Beauty’s Castle was patterned after this creation? Check out the picture of the line to the ticket office and tell me this doesn’t look like Disneyland!
Hannah and I took a horse carriage to the top which included a bit of comedy. We were seated on the front bench of the carriage which was pulled by two beautiful Bavarian Cold Bloods. On our way up the hill we kept hearing a strange but familiar sound which came from the horse on the right. In Germany, the word for exit by car is “Ausfahrt”. If you could use the same word for air that exits a horse, you would know what the sound was that we were hearing. Each time it happened, all of the children in the carriage would giggle. I guess that sound means the same thing in many languages. And we could have hiked up the hill and missed all the great entertainment!
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