In June we spent a glorious week in Bavaria meeting up with our friend Norah from Australia.
We spent a couple of days in the centre of Munich before hiring a car and driving down to Fussen in Southern Bavaria. The main point of the holiday was to see the castles of "Mad" King Ludwig II.
Bavaria is a beautiful part of Germany and Fussen is a particularly charming town to be the base of our excursions.
Some 4 years earlier I happened to see a programme on TV entitled The Fairytale Castles of King Ludwig II presented by the historian Dan Cruickshank and I was hooked - I resolved to visit them. They seemed such strange follies, unappreciated at the time but now among the most visited sites in Germany.
