Golden Tulip Hotel Olymp Munich

... feral, so after a few beers and soaking up the atmosphere we ended up leaving and going to a different pub for a quieter drink with a few of our new good friends from tour. Adrian (a new mate) missed out on apple strudel in Austria so he proceeded to pretend he was still in Austria and have one there.

Jumped back on the bus and headed back to the very nice hotel. Noma was a little tired and I guess it was 11pm by ...

oktoberfest is going great. Lederhösen and dirndls EVERYWHERE and being worn by all ages its soo cute..greaat beer and cheeses and pretzels.. Having suchhh a fun time here in munich. I was actually surprised though its more of a fair than i thought...i thought beer would be pouring out the walls of the tents hehe ooo well...justt got to wait on the line our squeeeze into a table...good thing bridget ...

... savor each one as he trotted them out. A big highlight was getting to ride his very hi tech bicycle that has an electric battery assist. It puts cycling in a whole nother league while it spoils the rider into thinking they could sign up for the Tour de France. Makes pedalintg a breeze and really kicks in on the hills. Will try to upload a ...

... Hard Work, Discipline, Sacrifice, Truthfulness, Love of thy Fatherland." These days the building facade is dominated by the memorial, which has a sculpture as the centre piece, depicting men trying to climb a barbed wire fence (designed and built by one of the Polish inmates to survive the camp), and two statements at either end... at the west end nearest the Jourhaus a statement in 4 languages that says "May the example of those who were exterminated here between 1933 ...

... electric fence, a wall, a 15ish foot wide stream, and another fence. Of course, escaping this way was essentially impossible. However, this initial grass track was considered a death zone. One foot on the grass trap, and it was considered an escape attempt, which was considered a justified "cause to kill." A guard in a tower would watch, and could freely shoot at anyone of the grass. So, SS guards would do things like removing a prisoner's hat and throwing it on the grass track ...

... Kings room and Queens room, throne room. - Was around 4pm by the time we were finished with the castles, so we did the reverse travel of this morning and went back to Munich and Jing's... it was a long day of travel and we were very happy to call it a night. <Lang's sphill> We went to bed last night at around 1am, only to be woken again by the alarm at 6.30am. We had planned on doing a day trip out to the Castles, namely Neuschwanstein and Hogenswangau, which ...

... after Hitler took power. Dachau served to be a model for later camps and as a training school for the SS. In the 12 years of its existence over 200,000 people were sent here and 43,000 lost their lives. It was pretty creepy to actually be there. We walked through the prison, into a few cells, past their living quarters, and through a very comprehensive museum section in the old kitchen. The museum had stories of horrific ...

... not letting people in, and it was full of sleazy ****ing Italians, who were groping at Lucy. **** I wish my Italian was better, so we decided that we would blow the fest out for a couple of hours. However, not far away, is the Augustiner beer garden, and we knew we would have no problems. This was jammers as well. We grabbed our beers and found a seat. That first sip of Augustiner made me forget all about my Beer Laos and English beer. It was so good. The first ...

Arrived in München, two days before the World Cup starts. Staying with my friend, Marcus, who lives in the old olympic village here (yes THAT olympic village). Tis right next to the old Olympic Stadium and the FanFest here. Photos to come! I pretty much spent two weeks watching 3 games ...

... more reasonably priced). Sandy will put a log in later with some historical data. We went to see a great castle yesterday. It was Ludwig IIs castle and also the blue print for the Disneyland castle. Im heading out to see the rest of Munich, Sandy traveled to the land of the Sound of Music (Salzberg, Austria). I decided to have a down day and relax without any travel until tonight.