The Easter weekend in 1984, my Mom and my stepfather got their RV ready to take a trip to the Neuschwanstein Castle in Füssen. But we changed our minds on the road and decided to go to Lake Constance instead. The first night we spent in Memmingen was in a parking lot. After breakfast, we went to our destination. And in the afternoon, we arrived in Lindau. Mom purchased a 35mm film for my first camera, which she handed down to me before our trip. It was a hand-me-down. Still being 10 years old, I didn’t need the newest, most expensive model to learn how to capture photos. So, a snap-and-shoot did the job.
Once we had everything we needed, we went to the Lindau Harbor and looked at boats coming in from Meersburg, Friedrichshafen, Austria, and Switzerland. The harbor is a Landmark with its southernmost lighthouse in Germany. Lake Constance borders two German states (Bavaria and Baden-Würtemberg) and three countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). In the evening, we had dinner on the island while the RV was parked on the mainland.
The following morning, we drove to Meersburg and took a boat to the Island of Mainau. Mainau is a Botanical Garden on the lake, not far from Constance (German: Konstanz). I was fascinated by all these tropical fruits inside the greenhouse. The banana plants were so high, and the fruits were hanging from them. That’s mainly what I can remember from Mainau.
After spending the night in Meersburg, we made a stop in Kempten and spent the night there before we drove home on Easter Monday. In Germany, Easter is on two days: Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. We had plenty of time to get back home. Mom was on vacation, and I was on Spring Break for the rest of the week. So, we could relax after this trip.
Under The Harvest Moon 