Disney Castle aka Neuschwanstein

Zorion's post:

This week we went to the Disney Castle! Well, not exactly. Disney based their world famous castle logo on the Neuschwanstein Castle because it looked awesome. 

Neuschwanstein castle was built in 1886 by King Ludwig II. Sadly, Ludwig II died before the castle was finished. His heirs carried on the construction, but it was never fully completed. I personally preferred Ludwig II’s taste way over the style of Louis XIV’s Palais de Versailles. Rather than 947.3 pictures of himself as a God, Ludwig II had pictures of legends and operas from medieval times and only one portrait of himself.

Ludwig II had terrible, rotten teeth. He refused to get them pulled out so he had to take drugs instead. He got addicted to the painkillers and went mad. He never married. He was engaged but cancelled the engagement before the wedding. He died young around 40, alone, in pain and addicted to the painkillers that were supposed to help him. There’s your Disney happy ending for ya!

Thanks for reading! And until next time, dentists are way better than the alternatives.

Zavian's Post:

The only things that Zorion left out were walking up, going down and seeing snow. So those are the things I will write about.

We took the bus to the castle but the hill was pretty steep so the bus could not go all the way up. We walked up the rest of the steep hill. When we got to the top, outside the castle, we saw some snow lying on the ground. It was only a little bit and we did not get to play with it for that long. Cora and I made two snow balls each and played with them until they melted or we dropped them.

My favourite bit inside the castle was the fake drip stone cave. It looked like really big stalactites just like the caves in Mine craft! Why did the king have a fake cave in his castle? I do not know. It was a bit random.

On the way down, Mum thought it would be a cool experience to ride on a horse and carriage. While we were waiting for the horse and carriage to be free, Zorion and I were looking at the graffiti in the little bus stop carriage house. We made a competition to find which was the earliest date of graffiti that we could find. The earliest one was 2007.

Then we hopped on the horse and carriage. While on the carriage, one horse kept farting. The farting horse’s name was Boobie. What a weird name. The other horse was called Billy and he did a big poo. It was really really disgusting because we were at the front of the carriage and we saw the poo come out and you could see the horse’s tail hairs quiver when the horse farted!

I am glad that Mum had the idea to go down the hill on horses because it was really funny that Boobie kept on farting.