Well, there is a world outside of NY.
Not that I'll ever see it.
Not that I'll ever see it.
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It's not as bad as say...Myrtle Beach or something.
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Neu Schwanstein is a chateau. I'm talking about a real castle, sort of like this one, very near to where I grew up.
PS: Don't be fooled by the image URL, that town, Burghausen, is in Bavaria and not in Austria.
Burghausen
PPS: This no attempt to hijack Mark's thread. Carry on!
mori,
Thanks for enlightening me...I have always considered it a castle, but I am aligned with der Schwarzwald so what do I know?
Nonetheless, WHAT A CHATEAU it is!
Thanks for sharing the link to Burghausen. We had such a great time at die Weltmeisterschaft that I am trying to talk my wife into going to Euro Cup 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. Now if we spent some time in Munich...would Burghausen be so far away?
Mark, please don't consider it a hijacking...consider it an blossoming of the Bayerische blumen you planted
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Thanks for enlightening me...I have always considered it a castle, but I am aligned with der Schwarzwald so what do I know?
Thanks for sharing the link to Burghausen. We had such a great time at die Weltmeisterschaft that I am trying to talk my wife into going to Euro Cup 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. Now if we spent some time in Munich...would Burghausen be so far away?
Mark, please don't consider it a hijacking...consider it an blossoming of the Bayerische blumen you planted
Fine with me!
MarkC,
Don't know if you will find this humorous or not but when I first came across this thread and saw what you all were talking about, I thought, "Wow, that guy from West Virginia sure did venture along way from home to take a vacation in Washington State...it was QUITE A FEW passes through the thread before I realized you hail from Western Washington...."thick?" Why, no not me.
Don't know if you will find this humorous or not but when I first came across this thread and saw what you all were talking about, I thought, "Wow, that guy from West Virginia sure did venture along way from home to take a vacation in Washington State...it was QUITE A FEW passes through the thread before I realized you hail from Western Washington...."thick?" Why, no not me.
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A chateau is of course a fancy residence like a palace, while a castle is a fortress or citadel. Sometimes the lines are blurry. Any chateau or castle built after the arrival of gunpowder is of course more or less a tactical miscreation. King Ludwig, who had Neuschwanstein built as permanent vacation retreat, was the Michael Jackson of his day (in terms of freaky fancy).
Burghausen is accessible from Munich via the E552, which is made up of A94 (Autobahn) and B12 (Bundesstrasse 12 -- federal highway). You can find Burghausen on a Southern Bavaria Map, West of Munich, along the B20 near the Austrian border. A drive from Munich to Burghausen shouldn't take more than 1 hour, depending on the route you choose.
map of Bavaria
I know a couple of retrievers who are big fans of mine. Those dogs remind me of a visit I have to make to repair my soul.
I really should correct that, you're not the first to make that mistake.quote:
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MarkC,
Don't know if you will find this humorous or not but when I first came across this thread and saw what you all were talking about, I thought, "Wow, that guy from West Virginia sure did venture along way from home to take a vacation in Washington State...it was QUITE A FEW passes through the thread before I realized you hail from Western Washington...."thick?" Why, no not me.
Actually, I came from the SE coast of North Carolina, about 6 years ago, so I did travel quite a distance to get here.
For a bonus, here's my little friend again. Mom stayed in the car out of the heat....
That would be what we call water. In this instance, I believe it's the Wenatchee River. Nice and cool and fast-moving. Contains nice fish, too. Salmon!
I think the thing about your water that I would find distasteful would be the crocodilians.
A croc of what? What are dilians?!
I once knew a man from Australia,
He painted his arse like a dahlia.
The colors were bright, it was quite nice,
but the smell was an utter failure.
He painted his arse like a dahlia.
The colors were bright, it was quite nice,
but the smell was an utter failure.
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