It's 6:00pm and Rita and I are inside our car with the rain pounding down parked next to the apartment we refused to stay at wondering where we are going to stay in Munich. Rita decides to call her very good friend Andrea, who lives in Frankfurt, to see if she has any hotel connections in Munich. Andrea frantically worked the Internet looking for suitable hotels but found nothing that we were willing to pay for as there is a huge Doctors convention in town. We decide to go and find an internet cafe and look for ourselves. We also find hotels but at very expensive rates and make the decision that we should abandon Munich. One of the places we wanted to go visit on a day trip from Munich was the Kings Castles and we decide to see if we could stay at a place that would be close by. We consulted our Rick Steves book on Germany and located the historic resort town of Fuessen. Rita calls one of the hotels recommended in the book and makes a reservation. We grab a couple of sandwiches to go, input the address in the TomTom and start out on the two hour drive. The rain stays with us and it seems the further south we go the colder it gets. We arrive in Fuessen at 10:00 pm and its 7c!!!
June 21st, it's still cold (11c) but at least its not raining so we bundle up and explore the town. Fuessen is on the Lech River in the Bavarian Alps and has been a popular stopping point since Roman times. Today tourists come here in the thousands as its the closest stop for Bavaria's most popular tourist destinations, the Kings Castles. But that's tomorrow's story.
Main Square in Fuessen with Hohes Schloss (High Castle) watchtower in the background
View of Old Town Fuessen and High Castle from Lech Riverbank
Inner courtyard of High Castle which was the summer residence of the Bishop of Augsburg 
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