When in England recently we went to the amazing Blenheim Palace. This was awarded to the Duke of Marlborough (Churchill's family) for his winning of the Battle of Blenheim. When we came home to Munich we discovered that this battle took place at Blindheim (Blenheim is the English derivative of this) only an hour away. So we downloaded a podcast about this famous battle and headed off to the castle at Hochstadt near Blindheim which would give us a blue dot for our Castle poster as well as it having a special exhibition for this battle. Being off the tourist trail we were not expecting too much so we were very pleasantly surprised when the exhibition was very thorough and in English as well - there were even drawings of the palace (Blenheim) that Duke Marlborough was to get after his great battle. We drove along the battlefields nearby and then headed to Eichstatt.
Eichstatt turned out to be another lovely surprise. Malcolm thought by being in the castle grounds there we earned its' blue dot but I had heard the museum inside was worth it so went in. Thankfully we did as it was incredible. The hill-top castle housed the Jura-Museum with amazing fossils found nearby. There was also a 6000 year old mammoth skeleton.
If the museum was not interesting enough Malcolm was thrilled when Ferrari after Ferrari drove through the tunnel up to the car park for a meet.
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