Meersburg, Lake Konstanz, Germany

Last weekend, our program had yet another little trip planned for us, this time to several towns on the shores of Lake Konstanz in southern Germany. I could tell you all about the neolithic stilt village that I visited in Friedrichshafen (not making this up)*, but I'm figuring you all will want to be spared that...

Instead I shall show you beautiful Meersburg, a town with lots of pretty old buildings and also the oldest castle in Germany (or so they claim)!

Here is the Schloss ...

it was started by Merovingians, which must make it cool

Here are the girls by a cute, and very typical fountain, on the way up to the Schloss

(nb: in Germany, every castle is on a big trecherous hill (I assume for tactical purposes). Keep this in mind when planning shoe choices)

Here I am, on the actual drawbridge over a big chasm ...

even I was impressed.

And finally, here's a view out over the town and Lake Konstanz from the Schloss.

*No, seriously, not making this up: