Breakfast was huge and long-lasting again. We ate out on the patio this time, and tried to pace ourselves from our usual habits of just “eating and getting on with the day”, but we still ended up stuffed.
We drove out to Bad Wurzach and looked in a small castle where the owner had trained his horse to ride up the stairs so that he could dismount just outside his bedroom after a ride.
There was a nice little chapel attached to the castle as well. If you view this photo of a wood panel in the small chapel at full size you’ll see funny little arcs from Jesus and Mary in this painting. I’m not sure what they represent.
Then we went to Schloss Zeil, which overlooks Leutkirch. This is a huge castle that the family is still living in, and it has its own church.
There was a pub there where Jan and Oscar both ordered the wurstsalat, which turned out to be piles of julienned strips of baloney and cheese with onions on top – not their best meal.
Then we went to Waldburg and hiked up a small but steep hill with an old defensive castle on top (most of the castles around here were just ostentatious houses, but this one was for fighting). Unfortunately we arrived just as it was closing.
The next stop was at Weingarten to see a big church built as a smaller replica of the Basilica in Rome. There was also a huge monastery and school, all of which is now unused.
Then we turned back north for dinner at the brewery in Bad Schussenried.
The Schussenrieder brewery has a bunch of old vehicles, crazy art, and a beer stein museum that was closed. They had a large band in the courtyard and the food was pretty good, but Oscar had to send his schweinshaxe back because it was really dry, so the rest of us had to drink some more beer.
They served the hefeweizen in neat glasses that kind of combine a handled mug with the classic hefeweizen shape, and Sigfried convinced the waiter to give us four of them in exchange for a good tip.
