Pension Westfalia Munich

... and the Army men ended up buying more beer, me somehow getting my hands on one each round. They also bought a bag of 10 HUGE pretzels for the table which everyone immediately started eating. I was having so much fun talking with everyone, enjoying beer and taking pictures! I took so many pictures with my Nikon, and I was so glad that I didn’t chicken out and decide not to bring it. I was sure to be very careful with it, and other than myself ...

... 8212;and based upon her demeanor, also Calgarians), a very talkative chap from Minnesota, cute lil' Chloe from France, Pasquale and Eduardo from...hm...here I think?...and a few others. We thoroughly enjoyed the oom-pa-pa band in one of the massive tents, the litres of beer, and the good company we were fortunate to have with us.

We later continued on to a nightclub to complete our merry-making. We arrived home fairly late, and retired for the night. The next day ...

... We got into town just before noon and we are downtown, busy traffic and pedestrian tourists, where the Glockenspiel is and are trying to find a parking spot. Luck was on our side and we find one. We hurry to the centre and are in lots of time, we wait for the Glockenspiel to go off. First bells on one church and then the Glockenspiel bells begin to chine. It is like a Caroline of bells. Then the figures move around and ...

... acceptable to drink on the streets. Except Poland though. There it is frowned upon and illegal.

-Lots of people still smoke.

-Dogs are allowed everywhere! You will see them in restaurants, shops and subways. Lots of shops will have a water dish out for the dogs. However the dogs seem so well trained and most that I have seen are off leash and never would leave far from their owners side. They also didn't bark much (at least I never heard it). However ...

... were sent there and more than 30,000 died there. Quite a depressing place actually, hard to comprehend what went on. The afternoon was spent at a Monastery Kloster Andechs with a fantastic atmosphere and views. We all ate a fabulous feast of pork knuckles which John carried the leftovers for the rest of the day and Denise and I enjoyed drinking mead. That evening was spent back at Ocktoberfest, looking at all the food stalls, rides and ...

... on the tilting ICE set when it arrived. The train travelled through Salzburg and then directly onto Munich, where it terminated. My first impression of Munich's Hauptbahnhof was that it was large but well coordinated, even though the different U-bahn lines have different entrances. Of course we had to go into the entry for the wrong lines but we bought our group day ticket anyway and then proceeded through to the correct lines by transfering along the platform of the others. U1 ...

We don´t often do the large dormitory thing but we thought we could save a bit of money on our longer stay in Munich if we did. This is how we found ourselves entering our new "home" at about 10.30pm whispering softly (so as not to wake our new room mates) and considerately (blindly) feeling around in the dark for our beds. A car headlight shining through the window lit up a giant Italian flag which had been tied up crookedly across two bunk ...

... beer in each mug containing the hall's operator (i.e. if there was a labatt hall, it would serve mugs containing a litre of blue). So anyways, on day 1, we just got ********d at oktoberfest and we were all so wasted by 11 that we went to bed by like 1am. The next day, some of us did the same thing as the day before while others (including myself) did some sightseeing. The city was bombed to hell in WW2 so there aren't too many really old buildings to see. Some cool old curches still ...

... toda la parte "cubierta" del parque, la pileta (que se sigue usando), la cancha de futbol 5, un halle (gimnasio cubierto) y el estadio, para donde tuve que volver a pagar (en la torre tambien pague). Eso todo MUY grande, asi que para ir de un lugar al otro tardas un monton de tiempo. Despues de todo eso, volvi a eso de las 4:30, para cuidar un rato a mis primos (por suerte llego la U-Bahn rapido, sino no se si llegaba). El ...

... places. It was cheap (compared to the rest of Europe), people were on the whole nice, everyone spoke English, and lots of the public toilets were free! (unheard of in Western Europe!). Heading back into Germany was eventful - after being farewelled by the Czech prostitutes who line the woods near the border area (in broad daylight! Not wearing much and dancing! very odd...), we had to pull over at the border and hand over our passports, then wait for ...