Hotel & Landgasthof Forstwirt Munich

... our adventure on this autobahn, our little minibus reached speeds of 170 km/hr and we covered 60 kilometres in approx 20 minutes - we should totally have these back home! It was awesome, it appeared as though the car was standing still, as Mercs and BMWs continually flew past us, the cars would have easily been exceeding 200km plus! Pete was telling us the fastest he's ever gone on the autobahn was 250km/hr... not on a tour of course!

Having enjoyed ourselves thoroughly we ...

... moment I needed them. Time was ticking away, I needed to pick up the pace. I feel sorry for all the people I bowled out of the way, but I was not missing another trip like the day before. Especially not to Munich for Oktoberfest. I arrived at the bus terminal exactly on the time of departure. I was desperate, so I was cutting to the front of the line with my big puppy dog face pleading for help.

Well, imagine my embarrassment when they told ...

This destination will be 5 days of beer filled fun. I will be attending Oktoberfest 2009! I also plan on filling up the 5 days with short day jaunts into neighboring towns. I plan on visiting Dachau, which was home to one of the largest concentration camps ...

... você não sabe de qual muvuca me refiro passe a freqüentar o parque do Ibirapuera nos finais de semana. Ter a disposição um sistema de transporte com trem, ônibus e metrô que permita alcançar qualquer ponto dentro e fora da cidade, e o mais importante pagando um preço justo e acessível. Uma oferta tão grande de metrô que seja difícil acreditar que a sua construção seja cara e principalmente ...

... Dean (tour manager) managed to perk everyone up and dragged them off to the beer hall for what sounded like a pretty big but good night. Me, sadly my priority was sleep so that I would be up for a few beers tonight. Today I got to see another clock go off which was pretty querky. I think my tour manager has a thing for clocks. But this one takes about 10 minutes to go off and has little dancing figures and a cookoo that flaps its wings. Very funny.

As we set out to leave Munich this morning, it began to rain. That, combined with a cool 8 degrees C made it for a bit unpleasant morning. But I suppose it was appropriate, give our destination. This morning we visited Dashau (sp?), which I believe was the Nazi concentration camp that was around for the longest. A rather sobering walk toward the gate, the same one that thousands of people once entered without the chance ...

... to hit much harder. It had a great, very comprehensive museum though. Night came and we headed out to Oktoberfest, it was a great spectacle. Much more carnivaly and family orientated than I thought it would be, not quite the endless rows of beer tents I had imagined. It was fun to see all the people dressed up in traditional German clothes, lederhosen, hats and all. So we hung there for a couple of hours, had a beer, went on a ride, got a taste of the place.

... appropriately void, of all human dignity and identity. The Dachau Concentration Camp incorporates a variety of memorials, ones that encompass the general experience and suffering of the prisoners, and others which pay tribute to the faiths of those who died. The work of the memorial therefore makes the memory of those lost free of forgetting. So long as Dachau remains a public center of education and reflection, we can always remember ...

... to get to do that. Trust me, after seeing as much of art and buildings as I had seen by the time I got to Munich, technical whizzes (what are you doing at MIT mister/mam, if you are not? :) are bound to long for something more technical. Its sort of like being a fish which has been out of water for a while, and enjoying learning to live out of water, being returned fleetingly to the comfort of water. The Deutsche science museum is arguably the best science museum in the world ...

... the royal residence of the kings of Bavaria. Continued on to Max-Josef-Platz and the National Theatre. Walked on further to the most famous beer hall in Munich, Hofbräuhaus.Had a look inside but the food was too expensive so we had lunch at a nearby Chinese Restaurant which was very cheap and the food was great. Walked down Tal to the impressive Isartor, the medieval gate to the city. Wandered back through the city to our hotel, rested then ...