Blogs from Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
May 21st 2012
Erik and I have found that Toytown Germany is the most amazing we have ever discovered! It’s an English speaking community and online forum all across Germany and its huge in Munich. We have been able to find things for sale, weekly meetups for a beergarten or gamenight and group gatherings at festivities, not to mention the major support we had in moving over here with all the little things one must learn and do when moving here, and tonight we joined a softball league! We have wanted to go for a while, but tonight timing was just right so we showed up with one glove and an old fast pitch softball bat expecting the worst (since the last league I tried to play with was incredibly pretentious), but instead found a wonderfully welcoming group of ... read more
May 11th 2012
After being declined no less than 5 times by landlords who are showing availability on their online calendars, we finally have an apartment in Munich! FINALLY. We've also taken the opportunity to change our itinerary slightly by going to Munich earlier in the week and be in the Alps for the weekend (see our itinerary on May 25 blog). For those that don't know, we've had our vouchers cancelled at our resort in Bali as well (and we've paid in full). Apparently the Bali wholesaler overbooked the property and for the past 2 weeks our travel agent has been arguing with them regarding an alternative property. As of COB today, I still don't know where we'll be staying but I did post a negative review on TripAdvisor and the Property Manager contacted me within 2 hours. ... read more
April 27th 2012
Amazing, how the world changes when you live somewhere new! As you may have guessed, Kandyce has been writing most of the blogs but now she convinced me to get in gear and get one out, so here it is! Today, we both arrived back in Munich quite happy to be home but also quite happy with how things turned out, what did we do you ask? Well, my work sent me to the US for two weeks, one in Phoenix (Hot) and one in Houston (Hot and Humid) non-the-less... I found myself quite surprised that I MISSED Munich... something in the back of the mind saying that some sort of weariness would overcome us in a new country, but not yet. Kandyce, on the other hand had a fantastic Vacation. She went down to Mallorca ... read more
April 12th 2012
Please read on if you fancy reading some deep thoughts or as Michelle put it "what kind of nonsense are you talking", but before all that I'll tell you how we got to that point........ My first impressions of Munich were of great joy and for a very simple reason. The great people of Munich know how to use an escalator. Somewhere along the line the unwritten rules (written in some places) got lost and never made it to the part of Germany I currently reside in. You see, everywhere I've been the "unwritten rule" is, that you stand to the right and let people who want to move fast go up the empty left hand side. Where I currently live everyone piles on both sides and you just have to wait. If you’re in a ... read more
April 8th 2012
So we got back from Turkey and got a chance to go and work and live in Germany. The eight months that followed involved preparing, moving, adjusting and settling. Now that we have reached the latter part we can now refocus on doing what we like the most. Experiencing the world. The eight months previous are not really for here but basically…… Moved to Essen, Germany, got an apartment, plus a dog, singed endless amounts of paperwork (they do love it here in Germany), tried to learn some German, tried to learn some more German and still trying to learn German, ate my weight in Bratwursts and showed plenty of visiting friends and family around the area. This brings me to today, or at least to the 8thof April, where we finally got to get away ... read more
April 2nd 2012
Guten Tag, Alarm goes off at 7am, Teresa and I jump up get our stuff together and get off the train. Tired and groggy we immediately look for coffee and a bathroom. After breakfast we set out to find our hostel only to findout that we are in Ausburg... 20 minutes away from Munich. Luckily we were able to hop on the next train and get there no problem. Once we were settled in Munich, we walked to the Deutches Museum of science and industry. The museum is very popular for middle and high school kids and I could not believe how in depth some of the material was. They had several exhibits on gene therapy, HPLC, ELISA plates for cell biology, and immunology. What was even better was that after the explination, there a question ... read more
March 21st 2012
its amazing the freedom a car brings! Erik's company provided us with a snazzy 3 year old Mercedes hatchback today haha and it totally looks like the old lady wagons...but sexy, if thats possible! he will be ordering his own BMW shortly, but it shall not arrive for a while, so for now we get to "fit in" with a family wagon. i imagine it will come in handy when we have to buy everything form Ikea for our house. since it does not have english navigation or an aux input, we will be getting to know the german radio stations well! its funny how the sporty little, manual hatchback cars seem to be the cool car to drive...but its so nice how small they are on european roads! speaking of roads, in Bavaria, the car ... read more
March 18th 2012
This is our temporary home for now! It’s a tiny little studio apartment at a place called Concept Living in an adjacent suburb of Munich called Geising. Even though its tough living in such close quarters to one another without a couch and paying for slow Internet, its really quite a nice little place. We have a tiny little kitchen that has most things we need, the room gets cleaned once a week and the S-Bahn/U-Bahn (trains/subway) are just an 8 minute walk up the street that will take you anywhere in Munich in about 15 minutes. Erik is getting used to the powersaving requirement of putting a key in the wall to the turn the power in the room on and I am adjusting to a rock hard bed, square feather pillows, laundry that costs ... read more
The trip has begun! / End of Capernwray :(
Published: March 16th 2012Europe » Germany » Bavaria » Munich
March 16th 2012
I’ve left Capernwray… I’m REALLY excited to start traveling, but really sad to be leaving my friends. I was shown a lot of love from everyone as I left and it was really moving. Some other things have brought me down a bit though; Dustin’s grandfather died unexpectedly yesterday, and I had to run off to catch my flight so I didn’t get to formally say good bye to Vanessa. At the same time, I’m already making plans for meeting up with people back home, with the internet these days we are never more than a few clicks away, and we are going to spend eternity together with God in heaven so my worries are pretty ungrounded. Hmm so yeah, thoughts so far… I believe I packed too much, my backpack is full to bursting and ... read more
