Arrived in Munich no problem. We went through a few stau, German for traffic jam. These are quit common on the autobahn, unfortunately. On the first day in Munich we went to the countryside to visit the fairytale castle of Neushcwanstein. This is the castle that Walt Disney used as inspiration for his castle. When we arrived the traffic was amazing. If we had stayed in the queue on the road, it would have taken about 3 hours just to get to the car park. So we went to the next town and had a good lunch in the Biergarten. Obviously if you are in a Biergarten you need to drink beer and I didnt want to insult the natives, so I had a beer. After a while we headed back to the castle and were able to get a park. Then we needed to get in line to buy a ticket for the castle, with the mandatory guided tour. We were in line at about 4pm and were lining up for the next tour available at 6:30pm. I got about 30 people from the front when a sign went up saying all tours sold out. cool. So we walked the half an hour up the hill to see the castle from the outside and it was worth it for sure. Its an impressive castle just from the outside,a nd the view from there up to the top of the alps and the other way across the plain was pretty cool too. So all in all a success.
On the way back from the fairy tale castle we made a quick stop at a white church which is called, wait for it, the white church. It was a nice side detour but the thing that made it interesting were the random performing goats. Just outside the church was a small fenced off area that had two goats and a balance beam which the goats would stand on.
There didn’t seem to be any reason for this but the goats apparently enjoyed the attention that random goats inevitably received, which was probably more than the church. Also, in Bavaria it seems that if there is a church, it is compulsory to have a restaurant right next to it, it’s like a rule. Even if the village has nothing else except 3 houses, if it has a church, there is a restaurant next door.
The white church was no exception and we were treated to a Bavarian sweet, which turned out to be a large donut but instead of a hole it has a thin piece of dough and it is covered in cinnamon sugar. Not too bad.
There didn’t seem to be any reason for this but the goats apparently enjoyed the attention that random goats inevitably received, which was probably more than the church. Also, in Bavaria it seems that if there is a church, it is compulsory to have a restaurant right next to it, it’s like a rule. Even if the village has nothing else except 3 houses, if it has a church, there is a restaurant next door. 
The white church was no exception and we were treated to a Bavarian sweet, which turned out to be a large donut but instead of a hole it has a thin piece of dough and it is covered in cinnamon sugar. Not too bad.
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