Vianden Castle 2009...

On Monday we went to Vianden, Luxembourg, to visit the Vianden Castle. It was our first castle since Neuschwanstein that you could even go into and our first that you could actually take pictures inside. The strange thing was that the majority of the stuff inside was not from this castle, but it was from the same time period at least.

We really had fun at the castle with David, Amy, and Jayden. We even tried a new restaurant called the Coyote Cafe in downtown Bitburg. Food was good, only problem was that we got a parking ticket while we were eating. No idea what for or for how much. We shall see, lol.

Here are a few pics of us all goofing off inside the castle. Not sure if we were supposed to play with the stockades, but we had fun. BARRY DID IT FIRST!

Amy, Jayden, and I were making choking sounds. That is why we look goofy and the guys are just smiling. David was holding the stockade down on my neck...it was not comfy.

Castles and More....

Last weekend we went out in search of some castles in the local area. Thank goodness we have finally made some friends who are all for just driving around until we find stuff to look at, lol. Thanks Amy and David and Jayden. Turns out there are towns around here that have the same name with towns in Luxembourg (just 30 minutes or so away). So while Amy was looking for this castle in Germany, I thought it was in Luxembourg. So, away we went to Luxembourg. Thank goodness it was not very far away because I would have felt really bad when we found no castle there, lol. But we did find the Luxembourg American Military Cemetery. It is kind of a mini Arlington, but only graves from WWII. General Patton is buried there. We were freezing our butts off but it was really interesting.






So, then we drove around and found a few really neat castles. Some actually have people living in them so that made stopping and taking photos a little strange. But we did anyway... We had some interesting adventures with needing to find a bathroom really badly...and having to pay money to a angry looking German woman who told us we must pay or buy something. Thank goodness I though to bring the Euro!

Here are the castles we saw:

We were disappointed that we could not get any closer to the castles, but the roads get very narrow and the car was not going to fit.
So, that was last weekend. This weekend, we are off to the Vianden Castle in Luxembourg. So there will be more pictures soon. And in March we are going to London!!! There will be picture overload from that trip. I am so glad we have friends to make us get out and travel some during our last year here.