This morning we had our free breakfast and caught a bus at 8:30am to get to the Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles. Let's just call them N and H for short. H is the castle of the parents and N is the one that the son built later. It's also the castle Disney used to help create "Sleeping Beauty Castle". Mom liked the fact that I had reserved our tickets online and so we walked right to the front and got our tickets, first to H, then N.. Mom pick...

So we left Lucerne in the morning for a 4 hour train ride. The first leg to Zurich was uneventful. We had quite a walk to get to the next train taking us from Zurich to Buchloe, Germany. We boarded the first class car and Mom went to get settled into our assigned seats while I strapped our luggage in the storage area.  This discourages people from easily taking luggage from this unattended area. I finished and met her in the car and she was telling me about s...