Regensberg, Germany

We rented a car to get around Europe so we took several day trips.  One was to Regensberg.  I remembered a friend of mine from Dresden told me that it was a good place to visit, so I thought we’d just drive there and check it out.  By the way, if you decide to do a driving trip, GET A GPS!!!

 

We walked all the way across the town to find a bridge across this really wide river.  It was worth it to get this picture.

A view from inside the town.  the whole town looks like this.  Needless to say, my friend was right about Regensberg.  It’s really pretty.

Rothenburg, Germany

Another day another day trip.  this time to the medieval town of Rothenburg.  This places is hundreds of years old.  As I understand it, it didn’t get bombed during World War 2.

This is the city gate once you pass through into the town.  It’s really something, it doesn’t seem real.

A random cool street.  The whole town pretty much looks like this.

Yellow House on a corner.  we were actually leaving the town to go back to Munich and we passed by this place.  It was really pretty so I snapped a photo.

Munich, Germany

Next up on the trip is Munich.  Munich is one of my favorite cities.  It’s great to rent a bike and ride down by the river (very interesting sites there), of course the beer is great, tourism, the English Garden, and good restaurants.  It was a little warm during the time we were there, but livable.  I highly recommend 3-4 days in Munich is you find yourself in Germany.

Beer bike.  The world cup was going on during the trip.  There were people everywhere and this beer bike was driving around the garden.  Basically, you just site down, peddle, and drink beer.

This is inside the famous Hofbrau House.  this place is a zoo.  You can get a wheat beer in a .5 liter size, and a lager in a 1 liter size.  that’s it!  Needless to say, no one complains (until the next day).

Nymphenburg Palace.  Pretty and peaceful, but it was really hot and we couldn’t find water to drink.

This is the Munich Town Hall.  Pretty much the middle of everything that’s happening in Munich.

Schwangau, Germany

Next up from the Europe trip is Schwangau, Germany.  It was in the plan to spend a day here.  After being in Balzers a few days, I decided it would to see something else.  Balzers was pretty, but there really wasn’t much to do and it was EXPENSIVE!  Schwangau is the location of 2 very popular German castles; Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein.

 

This is a picture from the hotel room in the small town of Schwangau, notices the cows crossing the road in the background.

The photo on the right is of a small town next to Schwangau.  We walked around and had a nice lunch here.

This is Hohenschwangau castle.  It’s really pretty place and is as it was when it was removed from use in the 1800’s.

This is Neuschwanstein castle, it’s really beautiful in and around the castle.  There’s a waterfall that leads into a stream and a bridge over the stream.  This photo was taken from the bridge.

Liechtenstein

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted any trip pictures here.  I’m finally getting to it.  I had a last minute 1 day meeting in Liechtenstein, so rather than fly and out, we decided to stay a while.  This is the first stop.

This is the town of Balzers, the first overnight of the trip.  It’s sitting right up against the Alps.

This is the church in Balzers.  This is at the bottom of a hill, at the top there’s a castle.  We walked up to it, the gate was open so we just walked in and looked around.  After a while some people came out if a door a told us the castle wasn’t open and actually it’s never open except for special events.  Our bad, but we got to see it.

Here’s the castle.

iPhone 4

Well, I got one. I was on the fence for a while. I looked hard at several Android phones and got really close to switching to a Samsung Galaxy phone on TMobile. The iPhone won out though, it's too hard to give up the pure usability and simplicity. One other note, I will be getting a personal microcell for my home courtesy of AT&T. I have to say their customer service in this case was great.

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