今日もドイツ南部ドライブ。通り抜ける街や村が可愛すぎる。山も畑もなんだか綺麗で、冬の薄い光が、見るものすべてをいい雰囲気にしてくれる。楽しすぎるドイツドライブ。そしてドイツを走れば、城に出会う。適当に走っていても、出会う。今日出会ったのは、ジークマリンゲン城という、ドナウ河沿いの崖の城。走っていて突然現れた姿にも興奮したが、城見学ツアーはさらに興奮した。幾つもの嗜好をこらした高級な部屋がすごく、そしてここではバスルームやトイレまで見れる。数百年前のカーペットや、各国からの献上品がどの部屋にも並んで、厳密に管理された宝物庫には、美術館にあるべきものばかりが並んでいる。シーズンはずれなのか、観光客は僕らだけ。そのおかげで、ガイドをのオバちゃんは細かく色々とみせてくれて、なんだかワクワクした。ドイツ語はさっぱりわからなかったけれども。
DAY637 : CASTLE HOPPING DRIVE IN GERMANY
We spent another driving day in the south Germany. The towns and the villages were too cute and the mountains and the fields were just so beautiful. Surrounded by the soft winter sunlight, everything we saw had nice atmosphere. We purely enjoyed driving around and everywhere we go, there is a castle. It's just there. We ran into the Sigmaringen Castle, located on the hill by the Danube. We got so excited when we saw it in front of us out of nowhere, and even more excited inside the castle. There were rooms filled with the extravagant furnitures and ornaments. The bathrooms and the restrooms were even available for tour guests. Every rooms we went in were furnished and ornamented with very old but valuable treasures and under the tight control. Probably because it was off season, we were the only guests of the day and the guide lady followed us all the way to show each rooms with very easy-to-understand explanation. It was very lovely though we don't understand German at all.
"Burg Hohenzollern → Schloss Sigmaringen → Schloss Lichtenstein"