Gasthof Zur Post Unterfoehring

... and beer. Although this is the tourist mecca for beer drinkers most patrons seemed to be locals. The food was good standard German fare (sausages, sauerkraut, etc) and relatively cheap. The atmosphere lifted a notch once the Polka Band got going. Dave would have loved to bring home a beer stein but the cheapest was AUS$80. On Day 2 we hooked up with a 5 hour walking tour of Dachau Concentration Camp. Our guide, Chris, an art historian and professional museum ...

... and tired of waiting in line. Actually, it was more like a mass of people standing nuts to butt. After waiting for three hours, we find out we didnt have to wait in line, because you walking around the corner to the beer garden. We were devasted. But fixed with lots of beer. Im talking like 4 litres of beer each. It was amazing and every sterotype came true, like it my dreams. There were people everywhere, drinking, dancing, singing, yelling ...

... All types of energy and power development, Astronomy and Telecommunications. It even had a massive area on the development of mining, metallurgy, and materials testing (which included a simplified iron - carbon phase diagram and ancient tensile testers). I was very impressed!! I could have spend days wandering around here. It was great. The next day i did palaces. I went to the Residenz and wandered ...

Germany has been wonderful! We met up with Marney's roommate from Oldfields, Felicitas and her family. They live in Bonn and showed us around the former West Germany Capital. We did a boat trip on the Rhine as well as the cathedral in Cologne. On Tuesday we drove down to Nurnburg where we visited a historical village- the ...

... very modern. But from the towers you can get a better view of the traditional red roofs and all of the cathedrals. We then signed up for the hop-on-hop-off bus tour that circles the city and let´s you get off the bus at a few different stops. We got off the bus at the Nymphenburg Palace which was the summer home for the one of the kings. We drove past the Olympic Park from the 1972 games and saw the BMW headquarters. We then got off the bus ...

... vers 18h30, après deux bières et une visite au WC qui m'a coûté 0,80 euro. Je suis arrivé à Nuremberg vers 19h40 à la noirceur, mais j'ai réussi à trouver mon hôtel avec comme seul guide la mini-carte dans mon livre sur l'Allemagne. Un bain plus tard, je partais à la recherche de nourriture. Je me suis trouvé un petit resto-bar près de la place du marché ou j'ai mangé un schnitzell avec une bière. C'est bien tranquille le dimanche soir Nuremberg. Ce fut une bonne journée.

... By the time we got to the arena we were half dead. We did the tour which was mind-blowing but it took us up and down one flight of stairs after the other going from ground to 3rd floor, down to the cellars, up to the 2nd floor, back down to the ground floor, up to the 1st floor and then back down to the ground floor. This was followed by a return 1 km walk back to the station in the midday heat. The arena is fantastic and we visited the ...

... version of Bye, Bye, Bye of course- it was cool) We drove around Munich for an hour looking at the sights. THen we went to an italian restaurant and got some lunch. We sat down eating lunch on Cori´s balcony when I received around 5 text messages from friends at home who were celebrating new years. Cori and I were so incredibly tired. I had a siesta and unfortunately Cori had to start work at 5. I was going to go out with one of her work friends for the ...

... country to the semi-finals against an opponent to be determined by that evening's Italy-Ukraine game. The city erupted, with horns-a-honking, people-a-partying, suds-a-surging (lots apparently onto the floor our U-Bahn [subway] train), and chants of "Berlin, Berlin, we're going to Berlin" raging (Berlin was chosen as the site of the final game). Since the drinking age in Germany is 16 and people can usually get by being a year or two younger without much trouble, we saw some pretty ...

We only stayed at Munich one night this time around because we are planning to come back here for Oktoberfest. We ended up arriving around 3pm, and of course didn't book our accommodation in advance so had to search around for a bit. All the hostels were booked up so we had to live it up a little and stay in a hotel. Annoying because we had to lash out ...