Chiemsee,
Germany
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We drove from Italy to Germany through Austria. We stopped at
a store on the highway in the middle of the Alps in Austria and took
this picture in the parking lot.
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The Alps.
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This is a little town in the Alps.
IMG_3673.JPG This is what an Alp
looks like. It is low enough that it has good enough growing
conditions for trees. Snow is covering the ground, but there are
so many trees that you can't see the snow very well.
IMG_3679.JPG This is an Alp with a
snowy top. The white stuff is above the "tree line". Above
the tree line, trees can't grow, so all you see is snow.
138_3801.JPG Our hotel room on
Lake Chiemsee had an unusual flusher. Try to figure out what each
button is for.
138_3803.JPG This is looking out
from our hotel room, we can see a boat going to the small island of
Frauenchiemsee, where there is a condo. Or, as you people would
say, a place where nuns live.
138_3804.JPG This is a very
strange bird that I have never seen in my whole entire life
before. I have no idea what it is called, so don't ask.
They swam and fished for fish but they didn't have fishing poles, which
was very disappointing.
138_3805.JPG We are on a boat
going to see a castle on the island of Herrenchiemsee. This is a
picture of the town of Gstadt, where we are coming from.
138_3809.JPG This is the condo on
the island of Frauenchiemsee.
138_3811.JPG This is me.
138_3812.JPG We are standing in
front of the palace of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. He had this
built only about 130 years ago. He modelled it after a very
famous palace called Versailles in Paris, France. King Ludwig II
was a crazy dude and he had his servants dress up like French servants
and he pretended he was King Louis XIV, who owned Versailles.
King Ludwig II ran out of money before he could finish it.
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a map of the lake. We stayed in Gstadt, which is the closest town on
the shore to the little island. We could see the Alps when we
first got there, but then it got too cloudy.
138_3849.JPG This is King Ludwig
II's bathtub. I know, it's unreasonably big. I would use it
as a swimming pool. It was heated by an underground fire.
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This is another unusual toilet flusher, which I found in the
palace.
What you do is you push the square thing in the middle. This is
NOT a
toilet from King Ludwig II's time. It's just an addition.
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