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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 July 28, 2004 11:37 PM