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By Randa
March 4th 2007

Munich, Home of Beer!

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The Joys of Bravaria

Munich, home of beer, sausages and strudel! What a fun and truly raucous place to be (one can only imagine how out of control things get during Oktoberfest!) We have made every effort to make the most of what feels like 2 very short nights in this Bravarian city. There have been two main highlights of our time here. The first has been our visit to the very rowdy, very raucous ´Hofbrauhaus´ one of the largest beer gardens in Munich. The place was absolutely jampacked with travellers and locals alike, all drinking huge 1L beer jugs and soaking up the jovial [View Full Entry]

By TeamTurner
December 21st 2006

Traveling to Munich through Dachau: The Shadow of Tragedy

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Barbed Wire Pictures

Traveling to Munich through Dachau: The Shadow of Tragedy Cold Day, Warm Car Since last night was an early one to home and bed, we were up bright and early to eat our (free, yay!) breakfast and get on the road. Mike’s new addiction is bread with butter and honey on it, while I’m all about the yogurt with muesli - German granola. I think it’s great . . . Mike grumbles at the loud crunchiness of it (for all that know him well, this makes sense) so early in the morning. Over the last couple of days, it has been [View Full Entry]

By Jenny Leigh
November 5th 2006

dachau

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today we went to dachau, the first concentration camp. it was an experience that i cannot write alot about because it was so terrible what happened there. we spent the whole night at the hobrauhaus last night and we are going back again tonight. not only is the beer awesome but the food is even better and reasonably priced. we would check out the beer gardens but the nice thing about the beerhalls is that its warm inside....and sitting in the cold doesnt sound appealign when you can be inside. we acutally found out last night that hitler gave some of [View Full Entry]

By Kris Kev
September 28th 2006

Munich to Hopfgarten

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Today was an interesting day. Everyone pulled up suprisingly well and made it to the bus on time to head off to Austria. On our way we made an unplanned stop at Dachau concentration camp. Although it was very sad it was very interesting and everyone was happy that we went there. It was crazy to be actually standing on the same ground as the prisoners that had been captured by the Nazi's, and really not that long ago. This camp was made for around 6,000 people but ended up holding 30,000 people. Afterwards we continued into Austria and before arriving [View Full Entry]

By mandy jane
September 21st 2006

Dachau

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The gates to the camp say, "Work will make you free"

This was a really draining experience but I think it was important to see it...Here are some pictures from inside one of the first concentration camps in WW2 and the one that all others during this time were modeled after... [View Full Entry]

By Hymie
September 15th 2006

September 15th

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By Nila
July 11th 2006

Posting from Germanz again...

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Work Will Set Zou Free
The gate we (and all of the prisoners 60 zears ago) walk to when entering the camp.

Well, I said I wouldn´t be posting again until London, but since I have free internet in our hotel here, I decided I should probablz take advantage of it!! Most of this post is just going to be pictures from todaz. We began with heading out to Dachau concentration camp. We thought we´d be there about 2 hours, and ended up being there for over 3! It was incredible just walking around there and going through the museum. I mean, I have studied all of that information for zears in school, but seeing all of it while being at the actual [View Full Entry]

By Rach and Si
July 11th 2006

Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial

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Entrance to Dachau Concentration Camp
'Work sets you free'

Dachau, about 15km outside of Munich was the site of the first Nazi concentration camp, and they have a memorial museum which is both fascinating and horrific at the same time. The Nazi's built this when they came to power in 1933 and this became the model for all the other camps that followed. The museum is excellent but leaves you feeling very sombre, bewildered and outraged that mankind could be so cruel. I actually visted here about 17 years ago on my first trip through Europe and it was always one place that stood out in my memory. Today the [View Full Entry]

By JustJocelyne
May 30th 2006

Last day in Munich

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Well today was our last day in MUnich we leave tonight on a night train bound for PARIS!!!! Yesterday we walked through the market spent quite a while walking around still couldn't see it all then we made our way to the beer hall HOFBRAUHAUS....very famous very popular and very busy! We grabbed a couple beers well let me say I've never had to pee so much as after finishing that beer.....we also had some sausage it was good (insert dirty thought here) Okay no really Germany's know for there sausage and it was pretty good along with the 1 L [View Full Entry]

By JustJocelyne
May 28th 2006

Hello

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Well it seeems everthing here is closed on Sundays so theres not much to do today saw a couple of churches (free to get in on Sundays) and then we walked around went to a market thats empty but that well have to check out tomorrow....thats about it ...I have bug bites all over so does shawn (he has way more) from that hostel....:( I'm glad were gone from there! Things I've learned 1..Apparently I snore....poor Shawn has got to have me snore in his face....lol....ööpps 2..Shawn is a magnet for homeless people we'll be walking down the street holding hands [View Full Entry]

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