I don't understand why we call places different names to what they are called in their own country, like we call Firenze Florence, the area in Germany that they call Bayern we call Bavaria, and we call Munchen Munich.....  Anyways, the latter city is where I was off to today, away from Salzburg where I should have just made an overnight sta...

Oktoberfest!!! What can I say. Its like Disneyland for adults....but way better. We had an unbelievable time. We got there and followed Sara's advice and went straight to the Hofbrau tent and found a seat. Five hours and at least five liters later we were having a blast. We met new friends from San Francisco, Indianopolis, Boston and Germany. An...

A few days before I left I was up in our study doing a test run of packing my bag with my dad when we started discussing my trip. At the time, I was expecting to be home by late July -- early August at the latest -- and casually mentioned that should I be able to stretch my money out I'd love to be able to catch La Tomatina at the end of August....

what most people don't understand is that when you think of big beers and lederhosen that is not common all over germany. it is just common in the bavarian region, which munich is the capital of. as soon as we got in we headed off to a traditional bavarian restaraunt, and in my opinion had the best meal of our trip to this point. food and beer w...