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Oktoberfest!
Oktoberfest was bound to be one of the greatest times in my life, as I would be meeting two of my most amazing friends from Colorado, Emma and Lindsey. Also, the was the last weekend of Oktoberfest and 500,000 people would be there between the two days.
My plane landed around eleven in the morning on Friday. I got off the plane and quickly …
Beautiful Bavaria
... to Marien Platz, there seemed to be a large collection of old palaces and theatres to explore so we meandered through the streets for a while happily snapping pictures and avoiding the many school kids running round on some sort of fieldtrip treasure hunt.
We found ourselves at Hofgarten which is a beautifully laid out and highly manicured English garden with rows of flowers and hedges surrounding rotundas and statues, all very ...
BeautMunich and more Castles
... to see more. Very beautiful in an ugly sort of way is the only way I can describe it.
We then spent some time in the little town of Oberammergau which is famous for its theatre, wood carvers, house frescos and Christmas ornaments.
Our last stop of the day was the Castle Neuschwanstein, the fairy tale castle of Ludwig II. We could barely see it in the distance due to low cloud and haze. The days are cooler around 23oC but still humid so there is always a ...
Hallo, MUNCHEN!!
... the city centre, Marienplatz (which is also the geographic centre of Munchen (that is Munich, in German...smartypants Paul...). At the end of the day we went to bed, before our couchsurfing host got home from work (she works the night ...
Lunchin' in Munchen
... able to keep up the physical durability to manage this for several minutes at a time. One surfer even managed to just lithely jump straight up with his board from the top of a wave back onto the side of the stream neatly taking his turn again in the line up of surfers ready to launch themselves.
Other notable sights during our stroll through these delightful gardens was the collection of nude sunbathers lying blithely around amongst ...
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