Joe has a video game with a bunch of super heroes in it, and Thor's action phrase was, "Get thee to Valhalla!" For hours on end I used to hear that phrase, and finally we took Thor's advice, and went to Walhalla, which is German is pronounced Valhalla.
A lot of things in Germany are closed on Sunday, and they recently passed a law calling for more things to be closed on Sunday. We also did not want to travel any great distance, as we had just done so the day before. We opted to use our Sunday afternoon to visit Walhalla.
Walhalla is a short drive out of town (Regensburg), and like almost all the places we seem to visit, on top of a giant hill/mountain.
Walhalla's hill would probably be called a mountain in VA, but here it is only a foothill of the Alps.
This building was commissioned by Ludwig I, the grandfather of Ludwig II who built the castle in the previous post. He named the building using a term from Norse mythology, but designed it as a Parthenon.
Inside the building are various busts, plaques, and portraits of famous Germans, but we opted not to pay the 6 euro each to look at busts of people we didn't know in a dark, cold building. Instead we contented ourselves with the marvelous views of the Danube and it's river valley below.
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