Just getting to Munich today. We don't check into our hotel until 3pm. As usual, walking around the city, we got ourselves lost. We found ourselves on the composer streets: Beethoven Strasse, Mozart Strasse, streets named after Hayden and Goethe. It's all very inspiring... ...until one needs the bathroom... Anyway, we'll check out a museum later...

Hello again! Hope everything is going well for whoever's reading this... because my week four was quite interesting! My fourth week here started off with a bang when I got invited to all you can eat sushi! It cost 10euro, and you had your choice of everything and anything that rolled by on two conveyer belts. There were two levels that ran by n...

Munich is the quintessential 'nice' city; loads of attractive nice people, friendly people, and good food. However, nothing spectacular, and not much that warrants taking up that much space on the blog. We combined the niceties by eating a picnic of paprika's stuffed with cheese, chili gherkins and artichokes in front of the Nythemburg Palace. O...

We got to Munich very early in the morning and dropped our bags off at our hotel near the train station. We then took the train to Dachau concentration camp. It was very interesting to see all the different parts of the camp and how they forced people to live and work. Only 2 of the housing buildings remain, but the cement base of the others are...

well it wasn't the same as thanksgiving at home, but it was close : ) a group of about 6 americans and 5 germans got together at my friend emily's tiny apartment and had thanksgiving... we almost had it all! we had a turkey, stuffing, green bean caserole, i made my mom's rolls and granny's sour cream potatoes! the only thing we were missing was ...

got on a train in Prague, rode that until we were told to get off, and all the passengers were shepherded onto buses, driven through the countryside, and then told to get on another little train with some Czech and German security guys, then told to get off and find our final train to Munich. i'd be lying if i said i wasn't at least a little ske...

You heard me right. I don't know who these people are that think that you can sleep on the night train, but it was nearly impossible. The compartment we were in got so hot I was panting and pressing my face against the window to cool down. Random police officers kept opening our door and looking in at almost every stop. The seats did not recline...

I'm now on my sixth day in Munich - I like it here, the beer is fantastic and the nightlife is good too, and having friends here to guide me around is really helpful. On Wednesday I took it fairly easy, had a walk around the city and enjoyed a litre mug of Munich's finest at an authentic Biergarten (Beer garden). On Thursday, Terhi and Vicky dro...

The alarm jarred me awake at six-thirty, after a bare three hours of sleep. Packing had consumed more time than I had anticipated. Window seats afforded me alternating views of clouds and farmland during the five hour flight between Phoenix and New York. As we landed, the cold grey Atlantic churned, capped in icy white. Four hours later, as I he...