Magical Mystery Tour

[Northwind]

Looks like you guys had a lot of fun
Cheers and thanks for sharing

[Terao]

Day IV - Castle II - Burg Sooneck - At the Rhine
This castle is laying at the Rhine, the most famous river in germany. Long parts of the Rhine are very romantic, and you have a castle all 3-5 kilometers. Most of these castles are very old and where build between 1100-1600. With the invetion of canons the old castles got useless, some of them got used as a palace, most of them became ruins and where used as a stone quarry.

In a period around 1870-1895 in germany we remembered the old times of the knights, of the 'good' old time of honour, the neo romantic period was born. Rich industrials and nobleman begun to buy the old castles and rebuild them in a romantic manner. Except of one castle and some ruins at the Rhine that kept their origin, most of the castles got a neo romantic dress on their old core. The very famous 'Schloss Neuschwanstein' was build in this period too. On the following pictures you will see loads of arrow slits and battlement parapets that are useless for war and fight, but nice to view. The large main building and the castle keep are from the middle age (this castle is firstly mentioned 1273).













Every rose hat it's thorns...


Our noble damsel Gwen working in the garden




A very nice coloured rose




Lady Lov








Gnomian mechanic for the drawbridge


The original panorama contains 11 pictures...


A paddle steamer on the Rhine




A Lizard!


And a mugfly!


Lady Lov, Sir Flame and Lady Mila


Sir Vasi!


The main building


Platemail


The rooms where furnished around 1890






A crossbow from 1600


Terao, Sir Flame and Sir Vasi


And sometimes a sight tells more then thousand words...


I really enjoyed the days with you all, thank you so much! And I'm looking forward for next year and hope to see you all again.

[Thicklesip]

Oh wow... oh wow! This is so great!!

I love the pictures, the group was smart to bring along a great photographer! Everything looks like lots of fun to visit. Thank you so much for sharing these photos with the rest of us!



...900 steps?! I don't know if I could do that!

[LOVWYRM]

Sir Terao, thank you so much for this wonderful picture show!!
And all the work you put in that. You are best!*hugs*

We all had a great,lighthearted time.
Thank you all for joining-and forgiving me, that some of the questline have been a bit uhhm-hard

The last pic with the moon:
We found 2 wooden benches and a wooden table there in the cherry-tree grove, watching the stars, the fallen stars and incoming airplanes far above.
And we died laughing about our efforts to translate the German word
"Einflugschneise" in 4 different languages. Cause this is what we are:
People from 4 different contries.
Istaria without frontiers
this
Flame will add some nice snapshots, he and Vasi did .
Thanks again to you all!

[Iz]

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Great adventures! I enjoyed following your footsteps =)

[Teto Frum]

I enjoyed the pics very much, thank you for posting. Nice to put faces to people you've known for years.

[TheRock]

Thank you for sharing your adventure with all of us.....see you all in Istaria!

[Flameus]

So here my additions.
(My 5th try - most pics did not upload)

From the gem-cave:
Game of thrones - Terao


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Games of thrones - Gwennol


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Luna^^


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Chamber of the Drusen


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the young man and the creek


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Terao and his new friend


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Sorry, thats all from my side, though Vasi and me made more than 300 pics.
Special thanks to Terao * hands the emblem "masterphotographer" to Ter*

[awdz]

I loveall the pictures and wish that I could do something like that someday.
Gwennol and Art make an adorable couple!
Thank you so much for sharing all of those!!

[Chani]

Nice pics.