Your house, your house.

After the castle, we headed to Lindau (which sounds like "your house" in Taiwanese if you say it with an accent) It was a cute little island in Bodensee, this lake that borders Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Lots of people swimming in the sea cause it was so crispy clean looking! Also cute doggies swimming too.

I love mossy things?

lighthouse! 

the port of Lindau. Click for larger image! 

Lindau Hauptbahnhof. Love trains! 

I forget what this one is?

their fancy town hall

Fussen

A suuuper touristy town, Fussen.. just for the Neuschwanstein Castle, which is this castle made by a crazy man who was obsessed with Richard Wagner, the opera dude. The castle was the model for the Disney castle cause it was oh so dramatic and everything. The crazy king dude inherited a bunch of money and hired a set designer to build this castle. (there is a room in the palace made to show a grotto..ridiculous looking and absolutely not normal for a house. I don't have pics of this though) So then he had a mysterious death, he was found in some river and some say it was suicide cause he was going a little crazy at the end of his life. Architecturally, the castle is just another fancy palace. Not really realistic for real castle-ing purposes. The landscape though, was fantastic!

The question I asked myself was... who would want to see the house of a sane man right?

super touristy and cute! Bavaria!

Fussen

Fussen Town Hall

a grumpy cat

this was really interesting graffiti..

pretty blue waters!!!!! 

omg tourists are so funny. This lady
was part of the huge group of
Chinese tourists

the view from the bridge

the castle

more tourists!!  I like to take pictures of tourists.

the castle 

nearby castle and lake

DUCKIE by the lake

HUMANS by the lake

København!

So I've always wanted to go to Copenhagen because of their renowned design! On the long long journey there we had to take a ferry to cross. So the train DROVE right onto the ferry and then we sailed off. We were ordered to get off the train and so we were on this huge boat that had concessions and shops and everything. We sailed for about an hour before we made it to Denmark. It was quite a different experience.

Copenhagen is a rather interesting city. Another biking city, lots more Asians--so good asian food! Best Asian food I had in Europe, especially the home style cooking. Saw the fort, a spirally church (from which we had an amazing view of Copenhagen), Christiania (an interesting squatter area which I was not allowed to take pictures of), a farmer's market, and the Danish Design Museum.. I think that was it, but obviously I forgot many things.

Ok after uploading pics, I remember now! One thing I absolutely love about some parts of Europe is the amount of green space and parks! I love that people are very into their outdoor living, they take public transport or ride bikes, don't use air conditioning. It's that kind of sustainable lifestyle that I think Americans need to adopt. Copenhagen was a little more diverse as a city, so I was able to eat some good ol' home cooking, however, things are REALLY expensive. So if you do visit, bring a lot of money. Think it was about 60 usd for TWO people to eat lunch.

Deutche Bahn has a vending machine
in its train

the ferry!

tourists flock to this mermaid

Danish Design Museum, look at them chairs!
This is for my chair loving friend.

typical Danish food. Doesn't look like much, but the
bread is super filling. also WOODEN utensils!

Copenhagen Opera House

University of Copenhagen

omg good Chinese food

Lego Store! 

One of the gardens/parks of Copenhagen!

the cutest ducks ever. This mama duck was taking care of
its 3 ducklings, and two of them were stuck behind
that concrete barrier. It took them a very long time
to join their sibling on the other side. 

mural before Christiania

inside of spire church

view from above! 

canals!

sooo many bikes

mini model of old Copenhagen

awesome graffitis, love it.

fort!

DeutcheBahn meal!! pretty good for
a train ride.

Sassnitz!

Went to Sassnitz, a small vacation town with my friend. We saw Jasmund National Park with all these beautiful chalk cliffs, while walking through the dense forest (since it was so dense, it was quite cool actually, even in the hot summer). Also saw the nearby town, Stralsund, where we saw an aquarium and a beautiful church.

So I'm still really behind on my posting, so I'm going to leave out most details..

boy, was I happy to see vegetables!

Church at Stralsund

Ozeanum in Stralsund

Stralsund streets!

DeutchePost: they even bike around to deliver mail!

trails of Jasmund National Park

dense forests indeed

successful animal picture!

The Wanderer

the water was so clear and clean looking. 

chalk cliffs