Day 18
Today was pretty exciting, we were going to Lichtenstein Castle! Which is kind of like Neuschwanstein lite. We decided to go to this one because, being smaller and less famous, it would probably have fewer tourists. We were probably right?
First we had to take some buses. The train was out to the first town we had to connect at, so they were running a train-replacement bus. The connecting bus parked in a weird spot so it left without us, but we got another one. It runs down these rather narrow valleys with little towns, and the castle is prominent above the town to stop at. We were walking up, there’s a hiking trail, the beginning of which is a little difficult to find but once you’re on it there aren’t a hundred different routes to choose from. There was an option to go down another trail to see a spring or something, but we decided not to – it would have increased the amount of uphill walking we’d have to do after, and taken more time that we wanted to spend at the castle. So we continued upwards. The trail became extremely narrow, just a ledge on the side of a very steep hill, which was not great for my increasing paranoia about falling off. I don’t have great balance, and I think about earthquakes a lot, especially apparently while I’m on the side of a steep hill. Continue reading