Staying in Hohenschwangau when visiting the King's Castles

Here are the promised swans. Now, what can be more romantic than stretching out on a picnic blanket before a castle overlooking an alpine lake full of frolicking swans while staring your love in the eye and munching on a pig's trotter or two?

Don't rush into your Neuschwanstein experience. Get a feel for the landscape that beguiled a King called Ludwig and made people think he was mad. Stay a while. Let it all sink in.