In which Sid and Doris burp the baby, see Neuschwhanstein, cross the Danube and make passage to The Red Ox.
Naturally we start the day downhill in cool mountain air which oddly does not suit the Firefly as the engine temp rises above 90 degrees. The engine has excellent cooling systems, including a large drum fan which puts air over the three SUs. The digital data screen rarely shows above 80 so we stop.
Sid gets gloves and a slightly too small cloth to open the radiator which makes the usual eruption and then some obergurgling. The radiator is given a token cup of water. Setting off again with great attention to the instruments all is fine. This is a great engine.
Passing the usual pointy spires of the region we are soon into Germany. Our route through Bavaria will pass close to Neuschwanstein.
This is the basis of the Disney castle, or perhaps it was the other way around. It was started in 1869 by King of Bavaria Ludwig ll as a retreat, romanticising medieval Germany. It was to remind you of Wagner’s Tannhauser with its minstrels’ hall and Lohengrin with the castle courtyard. 
The first drawings were by a set designer. It is actually brick built with various stone cladding. It took ‘til 1880 to finish and ‘Mad’ Ludwig lived there for less than six months before being deposed by the Bavarian parliament and dying soon after – never paying for his castle. Wagner died in 1883 without visiting Ludwig’s shrine to him.
Today the numbers visiting means access is by a half hour guided tour, and that’s it. Best seen from below. And of course very popular as a Ravensburger jigsaw.
Some days have gone by since the award of a Conveyance of the Day. A trio of Nortons take the day’s prize.Note the blue and white Bavarian diamonds on the dude’s leathers.
The geographic moment of the day is crossing the Danube. 
And so to Lauchheim and the Red Ox. It is very thoroughly German with lunch available until 13.30 and dinner until 20.00. Alles ist in ordnung.
Sid and Doris look for a beer in town before dinner. The Roter Ochsen is the show in town.