Germany May 14-15,2007

From Rome our group separated. Michael and Katie headed back to England and Jolene, Wade and I took an overnight train to Munich, Germany. I wanted to see the area where Dill had served his mission. Jolene wanted to go to Dachau and see the concentration prison camp and so we went there the first day. It was sobering to see and hear what the Jews went through. The evening was spent in Munich. It was raining that day. We bought souvenirs, and watched the glockenspiel play and then ate dinner at a restaurant where Hitler had frequented when he was young. The next day we went out to Neuschwanstein Castle. It is a couple of hours outside of Munich and the train we went on was filled with school aged children going somewhere. So it was rather noisy. The scenery was gorgeous. The castle wonderful– like a fairyland We didn’t get to spend much time there and we hated to leave. If I have a chance I would love to go back over there and be able to spend more time there. Sheila said Austria and Switzerland are just beautiful. When we got back to Munich we went to the Nymphenburg Palace, which was within walking distance from our hotel. It was the home of King Ludwig. We then picked up our baggage at the hotel and then went to catch the train back to Paris. We spent the day in Paris and saw some new sights, plus visited some we had seen before and in the evening took the chunnel back over to England.