Tour de Southern Deutschland (Minus the Bike)

I've been stressing myself out for the past week over my job hunt and my upcoming trip to England that I just planned last night (and leave for this evening). So this post is going to be a slightly lazier one, pictures of a few highlights with a little description.

Southern Germany is awesome. Fuessen is the best little hidden gem Bavaria has to offer, holding both the Forggensee (which dries up to a stream in winter time, that you can throw bicycles into if that's your thing) and Castle Neuschwanstein. The LA Hostel is pretty cool too, with lots of interesting and eccentric travelers, and the train ride from Fuessen to Munich is gorgeous.

Also in Bavaria is the Koenigssee, the Dear Leader's favorite vacation-ing area, not without good reason. It boasts the "most drinkable" water in Germany (though I wouldn't drink it.. there are tons of boats and stuff that go through all the time) and the (debateably) highest waterfall in Germany, the Roethbach.

When it's nice out, crazy people surf in the Munich English Garden. It's great to see the good ones and even better to see the wipe-outs.

Stuttgart has a great zoo, complete with a Peacock Guard patrol; the birds work together and protect each other from annoying little kids that chase them.

It also seems to have its own Angry Bird, starved for attention and biting its cage, possibly wanting to bite me even though I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything to offend it.

Then I almost bricked my phone, so I don't have any pictures of Tuebingen's castle. The phone is okay now, but alas, I have no pictures of the great view of Tuebingen and the Albs (not the Alps).