It is time to head back to Vienna, we have been on the road for 10 days now and seen and done so much. On the way back we called in to visit another palace that King Ludwig ll of Bavaria built. This one was called Herrenchiemsee. He had a bit of obsession with male idols I think. The first castle we saw was dedicated to Richard Wagner, this one was modelled on Versailles, he adored King Louis the 14th who had been in power 200 years previously. Despite his weirdness he knew how to spend money and this was another impressive palace, however he never finished it - ran out of money and also only stayed in it for 10 days anyway! We had to catch a boat across to the island, a horse and cart up to the palace, so the 4, 6 and 15 year olds had great fun!
Back to the car and on the road again! As we headed along the highway there was snow and ice on the road which slowed us down a bit- especially when we passed a car accident that involved a car that had passed us a few minutes earlier.
We headed up towards Eaglesnest - the Salzburg summer retreat for Hitler. We did not go up to Eaglesnest, as the weather was lousy but stopped at a museum where we went down into a bunker system that the Nazi's had built under all the buildings. It was snowing as we drove up, it was beautiful, unfortunatley there was enough snow on the ground to provoke another snowball attack on Aunty Sue!
Then it was time to hit the road and we arrived back in Vienna around 7pm after a great adventure!
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