More in Bavaria

We decided we would like to share a few details from some pictures we bought. The one above is part of a picture taken of Regensburg. The river is the Danube, and as you can see it isn't blue, though in this picture it doesn't appear brown because it is reflecting the clouds. You can see the Steinerne Brücke (the old stone bridge) and the Regensburg Dom (Cathedral). The postcards from this company are really beautiful. The photo is by Sergey Borisov, and it is copyrighted by Lichtbilder - Thomas Ferber - Regensburg, who are online at www.lichtbilder-online.de.


This is also a detail from a postcard. It shows an exterior view of Walhalla from the Danube River. The original picture is Copyright: Fiedler & Braumand and is available at Werbestudio & Verlags GmbH, Hoermannsdorf 39b, 94104 Titting. The card is number 8413/2. The card is really beautiful.


This picture is another detail and was taken from the Official Guide for Walhalla that you can buy at the cashier where you buy tickets to go inside. It is from the inside front cover, and is published by the Bernhard Bosse Verlag, Regensburg.


This picture is a detail of a page in the Museum Guide published by the Deutsches Museum. It shows the original Magdeburg Hemispheres and the Vacuum pump that was used to suck the air out of them. That vacuum pump is itself an invention worthy of note.
We always try to buy a copy of the guidebook whenever we go to a museum or historical sight. We find they are very valuable while walking around the site, but become more valuable later as a reference when you have a little more time to read all of the details. We were in the museum from opening until closing, but still didn't see it all, and the guide book helps particularly on those parts. We had planned to spend part of a day at the "Transportation Museum" which has been moved out of this building to another part of town, but Dachau took the whole day we had hoped to go there.


This is another detail taken from a postcard showing Neuschwannstein in the forground and Hohenschwanngau down lower. This postcard is Copyright: Original Kienberger-Foto und Verlag, D 86983 Lechbruck These pictures were all just camera shots of the Postcards or books, so the quality is very poor. Please don't copy them from this blog. We've given you information so you can buy the originals, and they are much prettier than these camera shots.


This last picture is our own shot, the last one we took before leaving the Nymphenburg Castle in Munich to drive home. From this picture you can see one of the reasons swans are so popular in stories and legends. They really do look grand. We found a feather, and would like to turn it into a quill pen, but we will have to learn more about that art first. The guide book doesn't contain anything on that.