Derag Hotel Max Emanuel Munich

... random times every day for a week, and then nothing the next. Getting the timetable for my classes is annoying though because I have to pick them out of a list of every single class every single day.
Otherwise classes are every bit as exciting here as in Lethbridge. The only other major difference is there are no textbooks - or there are, but you're not expected to buy them. They have a few in the library on reserve and we share them. Fortunately the classes ...

... thought we might not have enough time to wait. Rick Steves said it was a 30 minute hike up there, even at a brisk pace. Well, it only took us 15 minutes from where we were. So we made it in plenty of time.

We were on another quick 30 minute guided tour, but this one was even more rushed. There were 60 people per group so we only stopped in the big rooms. There were quite a few smaller rooms that we just walked right through. But the décor of the rooms was amazing ...

... cool intricate woodwork was at. Like I said, the tour was short because most of the rooms were unfinished and will remain that way.

The next day I went to the Dachau Concentration Camp. It was the first one constructed by the Nazis and was also the training grounds for the SS guards that were deployed around at the other concentration camps. It was only designed to hold 6,000 people but when the Allies found it it had over 40,000 people there. Along ...

... a little more. the next day we did a walking tour and saw more of the city and a pubcrawl that night to different beer gardens. the beer and the brauts are delicious! Overall, i really liked germany! But it crazy how much they are still affected by WWII and Hitler.

... Munich-we spent much of the time finding some new clothes and to make matters worse, Mom is sick with a stomach virus. We did stop in the largest Beer Hall in the world, the Hofbräuhaus for for dinner and Bavarian entertainment. Dad got drunk and teary eyed about sharing Ryan's first real beer. That's my brother!!! However, we're trying our best to (in the words of Monty Python) look on the bright side of life. We're together for the holidays ...

... to the camp, you have to take a bus from the train station, which takes you through the city. After seeing the normalcy of the small town, much like my own, it is shocking to find that the camp literally lies in people's backyards - the balconies of the nearby apartment buildings basically look on to the camp. The grounds and buildings themselves were not much of a surprise - it is exactly what you see in books. However it is the magnitude of the operation and the ...

... there are deep cultural connotations to this, but nonetheless.... If you look down a main street, the buildings are very similar in shape and angle, especially the windows. The streets are perfectly straight too. The stones that make up the sidewalks are never lopsided like most become. For those who prefer symmetrical over nonsymmetrical, you´ll enjoy Germany! I have posted a pic of a Munich street at night...

Chemotherapy is something I never envisioned I would have to deal with...I was single, living in Paradise, working for the best government agency in the world, and have the best resource management team working with me. Afterall, we recently transitioned to a new headquarters and have faced many challenges. Most people view challenges as something negative...change...I view challenges as an "opportunity to improve". My RM team consists of many hardworking and dedicated people who ...

... of tracks and country lanes and arrived at the campsite at 17.00. Pitched and went in to the city centre to soak up the Sunday evening atmosphere. Didn't get very far when I met Stacy and Hayley, backpackers from Sydney. They were studying specialist law and were on a European tour. They had travelled through all the places I had on my east bound itinerary staying in hostel dorms as far as ...

We arrived in Munich in the evening after a very long day of train rides. Northern Italy is much different from the south and we honestly couldn't tell when we had actually passed into Austria until we saw the sign. The Alps were beautiful to pass through via train because you get to see some of the georgeous cliffs, not to mention the quaint little towns that dot the landscape. On our way through the Alps, I was listening to ...