Blogs from Dachau, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 6

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 of beer...did I mention it takes nothing to get me drunk...so after that much beer you could say I had a good buzz....we walked back to our hostel but on the way I had to ... read more

Well Ive been in Munich for a day now, but I dont like it as much as Berlin. Perhaps because berlin had better maps available, or maybe because I understood the stuff that was there better, the berlin wall and such. Or maybe it was becaue of the Döner Kebabs. Lol I dont know, but today was very rainy, and I think that tomorrow we will try to find the famous beer hall here. Oh, and it was funny, 2 guys staying at my hostel were stationed in germany and are on leave right now, made me think of you joe. Its sunday so everything is closed, markets, stores pretty much everything, very different from the US. We just walked around and since its sunday we can get into some cathedrals for free and look around. ... read more

Yesterday I went to visit the Dacchau concentration camp memorial. Nothing that I say in this blog will do any justice to the experience or to the people whose lives were affected by the concentration camps. I saw the grounds where so many people were prisoned, tortured, forced to stand at attention for roll call, cremated and forced to live in conditions so horrible that I cannot fully understand. I entered the camp through the same gates where prisoners entered and the gate reads Arbeit Machi Frei or Work Will Set You Free. No matter how many pictures or stories I hear I can never fully wrap my head around what transpired in these camps and furthermore what motivated and drove their creation and maintenance. Even today it felt as though the place sucked the life ... read more

I had to do a couple double takes on my run through Englisher Garten this morning, )which is by the way one of the biggest if not the biggest urban garden in Europe=. I got in to Munich last night from Prague, which is just a short 5 hour train ride-its closer than it seems. This morning I woke up and went for a run, one of my favorite ways to explore a new place for the first time, especially when you go in the morning and there are no tourists out yet and you feel like you have the city to yourself. Double take numero uno- SURFERS. No you are not crazy do not worry, you are right Munich is not on the coast and does not have access to any ocean--all the more reason ... read more

hey all well im now in Germany...im getting so confused by all of this country hopping!! we are in germany just for tonight then onto Switzerland tomorrow for 2 nights...including my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!! wooooooooo party time!! haha joking ill be a good girl!! ok so quick update...last night we went to a Mozart and Straus concert, that was really cool!! We had expected it to be in a big theatre type thing but it was only in a small room and there was 5 musicians but it was still a really good night!! That went for about 1 and 1\2 hrs then we walked down the road to a restaurant for dinner. The dinner was HUGE!!! we had Vienna schnitzel, salad, soup and bread and butter pudding with custard!! so today we were up at 630am, had ... read more