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May 25th 2008
Published: August 4th 2008
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One Day: When we arrived at the train station, we went to our couchsurfing.com host's (Norbs) house, and he was not at home. When we called him he told us he had the dates mixed up for our arrival. He told us he would be home in the afternoon and we can come back then. Lucky for us, the train station had locker where we could store our stuff. We decided to just go back to the station, store our bags and head to Dachau to go to the work camp and catch up with Norbs when we got back. We left all our stuff, except what we would need for the night, in a locker (5 Euro) and set out for Dachau. While we were putting our stuff in the locker, a huge group of excited football fans came in and stored cases, upon cases, of beer in the lockers, cheering all the way. I guess alcohol is not allowed at the game, so they have to store it for after. We made the easy train, bus connection.

Dachau was very interesting and, of course, sad. I had not been in about 25 years. It was a long day,
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walking around and afterword we were so tired that we just wanted to go to Norbs' and chill the rest of the night. When we got to Norbs' apartment, we were greeted by Patricia (who we assumed was Norbs' girlfriend). She told us Norbs was on the phone and we could just make ourselves at home. Norbs had a nice, efficient apartment. While we waited for Norbs, we got to talking with Patricia and it turned out that she was not his girlfriend, but another surfer. She was actually his first surfer, years ago, and she said she comes back every year or so. There was yet another surfer, Skye, from Australia, there also. Norbs, Patricia and Skye were getting ready to go out to a music festival and invited us along, but we were so beat, we just didn't feel like partying. So Tricia and I stayed at the apartment and Norbs set us up with his entertainment center that had a wide array of movies. We didn't even make it through one, before we fell asleep. We had to wake up bright and early to catch our train to Budapest, so we left quietly, with Norbs and the
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other surfers still sleeping. Norbs, Skye and Patricia were all great. I wish we had more time to spend with them. That is the problem with couchsurfing...it is always over too quickly.

http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/norbs


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Munich, Germany train station. Watching a group of rowdy football fans.
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Concentration camp grounds
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4th August 2008

Nice!
Looks like a great trip

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