Romantic Road - Fussen 3 days

It was 12 euros per night with electricity and when we pulled into the parking lot across from the gym, Julie had the laptop out and was constantly refreshing the network to see about free internet. We succeeded to get free internet in one spot in the parking lot. For this reason only we ended up spending 3 days in Fussen, well almost the only reason. The stellplatz also had bathrooms and a shower facility (50 cents for 3 mins). There were grocery stores within sight of the van so we walked off to pick up some supplies, mainly 2 bottles of wine and some food. Our intention was to visit Shwangau and see the two castles the following day but we woke up with a shock. Snow, and lots of it. Once again it was very cold and this time it was snowing instead of raining so we decided the day was best spent in the comfort of our warm van catching up on emails, blogs and TV shows/movies and hoping it would be nicer the next day. Oh and it was around -5 that day. It doesn’t sound that cold, but when you only plan on being in summer weather, i.e. no winter clothes, and you sleep in a van, 10 degrees feels cold, so you could imagine how we felt with -5. Needless to say, the heater was on and off throughout the day. We woke the next morning to similar conditions, but we slept in and by the time we got ourselves ready to head out, I decided to check out the castles website only to learn that we had 5 minutes to drive 4 km and get tickets for the last tour. This wasn’t going to happen so we stayed in the van another day and this time watched old episodes of House because we only got into the show before we left for Europe. Our determination to not sleep in again and miss out on the castles, didn’t really work out. We managed to be on the road at around 2:30, when the last castle tour was at 3. So when we arrived after finding free parking (no attendant) and made our way to the ticket booth only to learn that we could only view one castle due to the time we were pretty disappointed but not entirely surprised.