Travels with Ben and fam

Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein: This is my new favorite city in Germany. It was my first time in the state, Schleswig-Holstein where the Denker side of the family comes from. It was flat like Nebraska (lots of farms) until we reached the Baltic Sea, which was just beautiful...there were even jelly fish! It definitely felt like a vacation spot for Germans, the Danish, and Swedes (not a lot of other tourists like us.)



Rothenburg ob der Tauber: We stayed in this charming, little city the second night of the journey....this was by far one of the more interesting cities I have seen because it still has the complete city wall intact from medievel times. It is a city on the romantic road in Bavaria.



Castle Neuschwanstein: This castle is in the very southern part of Germany, near a small town--Fuessen, and right by the Austrian border. We actually drove from Innsbruck that morning to visit it. This is the castle that Walt Disney modeled his castles at the amusement parks after.



Rothenburg ob der Tauber: We were lucky enough to visit this city the same weekend they were having their annual medievel festival. This were some of the guys who were riding horses through the city. Luckily, we were able to find a hotel because literally every one was nearly full. But, we were woken up the next morning with medievel music from another parade! :)



Innsbruck, Austria: This is right outside our hotel (Mozart stayed there once!) and the roof behind us is really very famous...it is made of pure gold and one of the Kings had it made; he would sit underneath and be entertained by jestures, etc. The alps are right behind it (2 Winter olympics were held here in Innsbruck).