Mad Ludwig

A sleep in after a late night last night as we had to wait for the others to come from innsbruck to collect us. Then we were off to Neuschwanstein Castle. This was the brain child of Ludwig 11 of Bavaria who built it in 1880's. He was enamoured with things Wagnerian and so much of the interior paintings and designs ahev Wagnerian themes. It is the castle that Walt Disney used to fashion the wellknown Disney Castle that we are so used to seeing. Thye trouble was that Ludwig was declared mad and a doctor certified him and he was to be isolated and unfit to rule. The next day both he and his psychiatrist were found dead at the side of a lake just out of Munich - again, another mysterious death whose circumstances will never be fully known. We have now arrived in Munich a city of just over 1mill people and do our orientation here tomorrow and then a visit to Dachau Concentration Camp. Since we have been off air for a few days, I've now been ablew to catch you up, ever so briefly to our happenings.