Munchen. Aka muncih unt some of Germany

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Hello viewers!! 😊

Lets see, ill round of Dubai first. We went to the other water park at the Atlantis hotel and it was much of the same. Its main attraction though is a Massive ziggurat that is a hub for 90% of the slides at the park. The epic arabian lazy boy system of interconnected tube rides where you get shot up hill was present offcourse. The other major note was the Leap of Faith which is quite rediculous. It goes down at about 85 degrees then shoots you through mist before you go through a tunnel through a shark tank and out. Its fast and its awesome and if you dig your heals in you can nearly walk at the end due to a reduction in ass pouding. Then home to cammsims, early start off to Munich!!

I should mention my lovely sister again and my oarsome brother in law, camsims, as I assume they like to be conjoinedly reffered to as, for their over the top dubai experience. I allready miss u guys and flynntroll and rosieposie (yar. Even the flynntroll :P ).

Then, welcomen to Germany mein friends, and more specifically to, the capital of Bavaria, the home of the Oktoberfest, the beer capital of the world, home of the Layderhoussen, starting point of the third reich, the most expensive city in Germany, MUNICH!! So, 3 hours in and i am 1.5 liters deep in delicous German beer, Augustine and Hell Mass (1L beers lol, i need bigger biceps) allready lol. Augustine brewery is right across the road from us and it is amazingly delicious golden abrosia. Turns out that hostels are used mainly by school groups doing various tours, so we got to spend the remainder of our first night watching under age kids drink lol. Not to worry though, a friendly meeting with our temporary roomates should be sweet.....until we had the pleasure of meeting captain suicide. That is what we assume though as he does weird things like just sits in our room, on a chair, looking at the floor, i dont think he was blinking even, and just oozes this thick miasma of the bleakest despair, its bizare. The others seems cool. Ones french here to study, the other is german on a work course, and i havent talked to the 6th but from what ive diserned he is chubby and sleeps at night. Later days would have change this innocent shell that he shows the world.....

DAY 1
We hit up a free walking tour of Munich which was amazing. The new europe tour group have done some very impressive things with their company (i was an avid patron of them on my last travels this way). Harriet our lovely kiwi auzzy hybrid tour guide took us on a tour of the 700 years or so of munich, starting at the apparently famous Gloken Spiel. Im told it is the second most overated site in europe so i shudder to think what the first is. I didnt expect a thing as i had no idea what is was and i still was disapointed lol. Basically some old bavarian king built a new town hall and put a mechanical puppet show thing that goes off a few hours every day. It plays out the kings wedding and a battle between a french knight and the victorious Bavarian night and the coopers dance all to the soothing sounds of 15 minutes a whole bunch of bells playing some terrible song. Im not selling it very well, but the lameness of it was actually rather enjoyable. Our tour then wound around old munich, noting various churches, WW2 destructions and also took note of the various locations where hitler did various nefarious things. All good. That night saw us go on a Beer challenge, which is basically a pub crawl but with educational beer facts which was very cool. It was a very sweet night lol, beer here is amazing, and litre glasses are epic and fun =)

DAY 2
So we got up with not enough sleep or enough time for the alcohol filters to clean the tank and stumbled down the road to the meeting place to go and visit arguably the most fairytale castle in the world which is supposed to be the inspiration for the Disney castle, the Neuschwanstein Castle. Its an amazingly cool castle. King Ludwig the II built it in like 1860-1880 or some such. Its a rather tragic storz but basically, Ludwig2 took the throne at 18 (grandad was removed from the throne for womanising, and his dad died), then his aid died, made friends with a guy that made operas, who he then had to banish to switzerland because the people hated him, so he starts hating the people, nearly gets married but that fails because he is likely gay, has 2 wars with prussia and france, gets his kingdom converted into part of Germany, has an insane brother (and after a long time of family inbredding) fears his own sanity. He starts building castles as a type of old school escapism (l2p warcraft n00b), taking the royal coffers into a massive amount of debt, and then some guys do some dodgy things and he gets removed from his position for being insane then dies in mysterious circumstances 2 days after. Neuschwanstein was his pride and joy and only 1/3 of the rooms where completed when he was taken. He apparently built the castle in homage to his favourite opera writer (methinks he likes him in that special way). Well, cool castle anyway. Home to bed after that for a while. It was this night that our chubby night sleeper came home at night to sleep, as was his want. Our room was divided into a 2 bed section and a 4 bed section. He stumbles into our room and, thinking its the toilet, unleashs his drunk tank and pisses all over our new germans friends clothes, shoes and laptop...lol. It was funny, but only because we get a sweet story out of it and none of the piss.

DAY 3
Dachau Concentration camp. Well, dachau was interesting but not exactly fun. It lacks the complete brutality of the extermination camps in Poland but it is brutal enough, 200k people kept there over 12 years (it was built for 6k at a time) with 40k deaths. Thats not to say it wasnt rediculously brutal. Complete with all the Nazi bells and whistles, beatings, disease, no food, basicallz no clothes, constant death, medical experiments...all the things that nazis apparently did verz well. Not much more to really say about it....

Out for beers at the famous Hofbrauhouse after that. It was apparently a epic drinking hall back in the day. The dug trenchers under the tables so the men could just open the flap on their layderhoussen, tap their nearby mates with their stick, then piss down the stick into the trench with no spash damage..lol. Suffice to say its still set up like this and is totally fun...JK its not like this anymore but they have some excellant beer. We met some locals here and then ended up going to a night club district. This place was insane!! It is a converted warehouse district that no contains 35 clubs in one block, its amaying 20k+ people on a weekend night lol. Me and CG offcourse got our dance on, like king koooong. Home to bed and then off on the trains the next day to Frieburg, gateway to the black forrest!

CALLSIGNS
Cg is strasslecki and I am mcmillan. The call signs came about quite simply when cg noticed te names of our backpacks, eif u can believe such a thing!! No need to mention te amount o military talk which will be reeled from such brutal call signs! I'm actually writing this portion of the blog on my I phone and am quite drunk from the German welcome festival so apologies for the no doubt more than normal error. But hey, I can't expect much if I refuse to proof read lol.


Until next time everybody, all my love, hope everyone is safe and goodly!!

Nick (McMillan) Grant


Some things of that I have noticed in jermany thus far;

- the floors of their toilets are immaculate. Whether this is an issue of cleaning, plumbing, sociology economic or no drunkards in the toilets I have visited I am unable to speculate, though I hope for the former (if that makes sesne it ws an accident). I even went as far as to leave my b pack on the floor when I did my daily fiber cleanse at the airport (if u know about me and fiber I'm talkin to u /wink). It turns out though that its part of the whole european thing of tipping toilet worker people.
- it's colder here than dubai, but in a good way?
- German customs is weaker than roma Queensland customs lol
- Germans actually wear stupid German hats lol. Especially bavarians. Im told the feather like plumage they have in their hats is like pimp my ride, aka. they cost thousands of euros for the good ones and its straight up PIMP
- German beer is delicious. It tastes like powdered sugar
- there should be a cracking good show of English football between man u and I'm assuming a German team. Me and the lads are going to share a pint and a cuppa and watch the match!! The problem with manchester though is they always try and walk it in.
- Ein prost, ein prost, le gemuctlichi, Ein prost, ein prost, le gemuctlichi. Is a very cool Bevarian beer drinking song, very cool lol. basically converts to.. Toast, Toast, i like bromancing my big dogs arff, Toast, Toast, i like bromancing my big dogs arff
- moar later =)

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Photos

Centre o Munich
This is the new town hall, with glockenspiel. Note my bad ass sun glasses!!! mirror finish for the win

Oh sweet lemonade
Yum....Yum...Yum, cool hat too

Neuschwanstein Castle
Lake out the back of Ludwi 2's house

Neuschwanstein Castle
Out the side of the house

Neuschwanstein Castle
The house itself from the side on a brdige that Ludwig 1 built for his wife

The caste some more but with me
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Dachau Concentration Camp
The first and last concentration camp in germany, existed for the entirety of the 12 years of the 3rd reich