This is Germany.... really!

I went to Munich about a month ago, took hundreds of shots and realised that just about all of them sucked. Well, they're not ugly or anything, just unspectacular - the sort of pictures you'd find on a postcard (the same 'ol buildings and shit).

So it's kind of funny that the two best pictures I've taken in Germany really could've been taken anywhere in the world. There's absolutely nothing distinctly German about them. And these pictures weren't even taken in Munich.

A large number of Germans are Catholic, which is evident in their souvenir shops. There was this shelf with a whole lot of tiny biblical character figurines carved out of wood. I snapped this in some small town during a Gray Line tour to a couple of big German castles - one was made by King Ludwig II (Neuschwanstein Castle) and the other was his residence (Linderhof Castle, I think).



This was taken near Neuschwanstein Castle. At the bottom of the hill, there are loads of people sunbathing and taking a swim at the nearby lake.


And just for the sake of completeness, here's Neuschwanstein Castle. Find out more about it here. Take note that photography was strictly prohibited during a guided tour of the castle, so the pictures of the interior (on the linked website) were probably scanned from some official guide book or something.


(All pictures taken with a Nikon D70 and an AF-S Nikkor DX 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED)