July 28, 2004
Train to Fussen Germany
Location: Munich Internet Cafe
The Face Plague is gone!!!!
It went away after about 2 days.
So.... Back Track to Frankfurt. It pretty much blew. It is just another city. Fairly dirty & smelly. But I was also seeing this through burning eyes.
The Hostel was ok. Clean & had a bathroom which is good. I was expecting shared bathroom situations at Hostels, but that hasn't really been the case.
We didn't do much really. Walked around a bit and had a few bratwursts.
On the 25th we trained to Munich. It rocked pretty much from the beginning. Huge train station. Tons of pubs & beer gardens. The atmosphere is very laid back and there are many different nationalities around.
We stayed in a the Easy Palace Hostel the First night. It kind of sucked as it was a dorm with four others. I made them mad with all my snoring I think.
We stayed in a Hotel the last 2 nights. It was only about 10 eu more.
On the first day we walked ALL OVER munich lost trying to find the hostel. It was pretty fun actually until the end. We were very tired and it was too hot. But not as bad as Frankfurt was. That was pretty much it for Sunday. Except for the Italian Pasta at the place next to the Hostel. Amazingly Good.
On the 26th It rained. The German rain felt like home. We did laundry, found a new Hotel, checked in, and crashed. I think this is where the Jet lag caught up because I slept from 6pm to 4am
The 27th was the first REAL day of vacation.
Went to Dachau. It was so so. Not as moving as I expected since it was mostly modern multi-media displays in new buildings. Plus apparently Dachau was a less severe camp than Auschwitz. It was good to see but, I dunno...
We trained bach to Munich, reserved a slot for the train to Prague and had dinner at some bistro near the train station.
Later that night was the beer crawl. Imagine about 50 people walking from pub to pub with a cooler full of free but nasty beer.
We went to a beer garden that was apparently the first one ever. It seated about 5000 people. huge! Good beer too. It was called Augustiner, for the order of Monks that started the brewery. It is apparently only sold locally.
The story goes that the Monks brewed the wheat beer for Lent. The gardens started because the bavarian king had outlawed brewing in the summer months. There were too many brewery fires that burned down the whole town. So they brewed extra through the winter and stored it it in cellars underground. The area above the cellars became the gardens where they would gather to drink in summer months.
Posted by sono at 11:37 PM | Comments (0)
das münchen is güt er something like that
Location: Munich Internet Cafe
zesterdaz dachau. missed proper train for sleeping beautz castle. Also did the pub crawl. wooo howdz. 5000 people beer garden = good. The rest is a bit blurrz.
tonight train to prague.
Posted by sono at 9:07 PM | Comments (0)
July 26, 2004
Munich update
Location: Munich Internet Cafe
For this entrz please convert all Z's to Y's and Y's to Z's. I refuse to adopt to euro kezboards!
The horrible FACE PLAGUE is gone!!! I can now actuallz feel sensation other than burning. soo happz I am.
Munich is prettz damn nice. amayinglz relaxed atmosphere. Gorgeouslz uglz buildings and easz transportation. It is a bike citz as well. All bikes have ding dingers that thez use to remind us dumb americans that we are walking in the bike lane and not on the sidewalk. I will learn some daz, or else be run down bz a manic german in capri pants. (thez wear those here.... the guzs I mean. Capri pants. I am trzing to convice michael that we need to bring some back and start a new trend. I think he is afraid of getting his ass kicked though)
Dinner last night was at this little cafe next to the hostel. Fucking amaying pasta. Seriouslz. I have had maz share of pasta, but this was the absolute best. With coke & tip it was 15€ or about 18$ american.
What else. Mild temperatures here todaz. Even a bit of rain. much like home.
todaz is rent a bike & photo & find next hotel as the current one is out of space. Tomorrow the Disnezland like castle & probablez the dachau memorial.
Ok interneten timen is upen. ya das is gut
Posted by sono at 9:33 PM | Comments (0)
July 24, 2004
Ya Bitte
Location: Frankfurt Hostel
Someone please to be killing me now.
1} do NOT use the lemon scented warm moist towlette on your face. Chemical burns are the result. I now feel as though someone poured acid all over my face. Burn, itch, burn, itch, ouch.
2} Frankfurt is a city, yes it is. nothing special.
3} Z & Y are in the wrong place on this keyboard. What is above the 3?
4} Tomorrow munich. no more of this terrible place. if face is not better I shall go insane.
oh and flight from BC to Germany sucks
Posted by sono at 10:08 PM | Comments (0)
And we're off
Location: Frankfurt Hostel
Arrived in Frankfurt at about 10 this morning.
First lets start with Friday. Er no. Thursday before leaving...
Stayed at the traveling companions house. He hadn't packed. He finished at about 4 am. So no sleep that night.
In Vancouver we had a five hour layover. Thank god for the napping lounge. They had barco loungers in closets for me to sleep in.
Then the Hell Plane to Germany. Nine Hours at an average of 37,000 Feet at 600 mph. Cramped. They had these monitors that updated on our progress. Kind of cool. Computer images of a plane flying north up into greenland. Totally avoided the Night Sky during the trip.
Note: never use the lemony scented warm moist towllettes on face again. I am totally burning and itching all over the face. I want to die. We have dubbed this the Face Plague
Posted by sono at 4:31 PM | Comments (0)