The place was enormous and it was really amazing that besides the palace, it had a HUGE garden/park area (490 acres) with all sorts of little buildings. Here was the view standing on the terrace of the back of the palace. It was also much windier/chillier than expected, so dustin was such a sweetie and traded jackets with me cause his was much warmer. I couldn't believe he actually fit into my fleece-- and of course I had to get a picture of how ridiculous he looked!
So we started tackling all of the little buildings and exploring the park. First up was a building I believe they used for when they were hunting-- they would stay at this place. You can notice in the bedroom there is a door that blends into the wall-- a lot of the bedrooms at these palaces had those and were so the mistress could slip in and out of the bedroom. the last picture is what the kitchen looked like.
Here's a few shots of the area-- some of it was basically like a walking trail and more wooded, while other areas were huge open fields. We even spotted a deer!
I can't remember what this next building was used for, but I took a picture of the bathroom/washroom. You can see the water spouts on the wall, so not really sure how this whole setup worked.
This next building was a japanese style building and everything was decorated with a definite asian inspiration.
Lastly, we went to the chapel building. The inside was small, but incredible-- every inch was decorated with shells and rocks. It was beautiful and my pictures just don't do a justice!
Luckily one of the buildings was converted to a restaurant, so we stopped for some food and I FINALLY insisted to Dustin I was ordering my Diet Coke, even if it was like $5 for 4 oz. or the tiniest portion ever. But every last drop tasted heavenly! We decided to get a light lunch since it was late and we wanted a decent dinner. So we see they have a snack menu, so dustin orders the sausages off the snack menu and I got a salad. His snack was FOUR sausages and fries!
Lastly, we finished a part of the main palace that stored all of the carriages/coaches used. It was really cool to see how many they had and all the different styles.
We then were just playing by ear what to do in the afternoon and decided to go to Dachau. We got there mid/late afternoon, so we knew we didn't have much time. We started with a museum that was indoors cause that closed earlier than walking around the outdoor parts. Well unfortunately we went waaaaaaaay too slow because we weren't even halfway through when they closed. I found it very interesting and wish I would have known there was so much more to see and would have gone faster. We walked around for a bit outside, but there really wasn't much to see out there. Rows of buildings used to stand here, but they got rid of all of them but 2 that were setup still as models of what it looked like inside.
My view from the inside looking out-- always bars on all the windows.
There was a trench around the entire outside perimeter, along with tons of barbed wire, concrete walls, watch towers, etc.
We then went to Altes Hackerbrauhaus for dinner, recommended by rick and was decent. More just awesome traditional german food!
Afterwards, we checked out Jodelwirt (also one of Rick's recommendations) and was glad we stopped in. It was a very TINY place and definitely seemed like where the locals hang out....they would be playing music and everyone singing along and shouting things out! We got one of the last seats in a corner by the bar area so decided to stay for a drink and I was hoping to order dessert. So we ask if they have a dessert menu and the girl is like, "uh, normally we do, but today is special celebration and we only have pig...so if you want some pig for dessert, that is what we have." Obviously i'll pass on that! But then they were so nice to us and said they would specially make something for us...so I got the Apple Struedel with ice cream and it was THE BEST I'd had there-- exactly what I had been searching for!
