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Memorable Munich
We had a few short days in Munich. Enough to fit in a walking tour of the city, several beer halls and of course, Oktoberfest. The city was filled with festival goers dressed in leiderhosen. We were suprised by the number of locals who donned the gear and got into the spirit. We had some great Bavarian food including sauerkrat, sausages, roast beef …
Our Suisse experience!
Hi Everyone!
Just thought we should touch base, especially seeing as though plans have changed a little!
We sadly packed up in Munchen, said good-bye to the great city, and embarked on our first attempt to use our Eurail passes...how easy! However, we may have been bothersome to the other passengers as we played with everything we …
Munich - Day 9
... technique, where prisoners were hung from the pipes and poles by their wrists, arms behind them while taunted prodded and poked at for long periods of time.The following rooms were the Kitchen and administration offices where information was collated such as the number of people enlisted into Dachau that day, number of people held, number of people at the infirmity and the number of deaths. There was such a great and large collection of peoples ...
Oktoberfest
... to get in line for the start of Oktoberfest, as we wanted to be in the main tent (Haufenbrau) for the tapping of the first keg we had to be early. We were lining up for about 3 hours and then when we finally got in, had to charge for a seat and table (got one) and then we had to wait for another 2 hours until they started serving the beers. Have not wanted a beer more in my life.
We got a ...
Prost from Munchen
... public believed this camp to be a "work camp" so many did not know of the horrors that occurred. We did walk the barracks that were built to house 200 people but in actuality there were usually around 2000 in each housing quarters. We saw the original crematorium which was deemed to be "to small" so a larger one was built. The gas chamber was directly beside the crematorium but for some unknown reason the gas chamber was never used here. It was an ...