Blogs from Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 106

When we got to munich the hostel was right across from the train station, and we arrived just in time to watch the end of the world cup game. The bar in the hostel was hopping, and beer was cheap and flowing. I took some pics too of peoples reactions. The party in the streets was intense too, with people going crazy and waving flags, honking, no flashing though. Renata wanted boobies. We met a young couple from Minnesota in our room, and also some people from South Korea. In the lobby we found a brochure for the New Munich walking tours. Free Tour? I'm in! We decided to go on the tour the next day, since it was stopping by right in the lobby. Next morning we took the tour, which was actually really awesome. ... read more

So... I have been a lot of places since I updated. It's kinda crazy! We took a ferry to Athens and got stuck in a Port city because our train was late! But once we got to Athens it was a really cool place and everything was a lot cheaper than anywhere we had been. We ended up spending 50 hours on ferries to spend 24 hours in Athens!! Kinda wild. After that we went to Interlaken Switzerland, where a lot of Americans go to do extreme sports. Everything got really really expensive again, but it was a smashing good time :). I went hang gliding and canyoning. Hang gliding was something that I wanted to for my whole life, so it was fun to finally do it. I'm thinking about learning how to do it ... read more

Germany: The World Cup (June 12-27) Munich/ Nuremberg/ Frankfurt/ Kaiserslautern/ Koln and more 7 matches, 8 cities, 14 days, a few 30 + year old men and an RV. What a great time! I had hoped the title of this blog would be ‘USA stuns the world in football’ but our hopes were crushed a few days ago in Nuremberg when the Black Stars of Ghana sent our boys packing. Even though I was thoroughly worn out, hoarse in the voice, catching a fever and lived out of the RV for the last few days, it was fantastic. I started the journey to Germany from Ljubljana, Slovenia for a few days to prepare for the debauchery of the World Cup. Ljubljana is a small, quaint city located in the mountains just south of Austria with a ... read more

完全意料不到會失眠。那似乎來自澳洲的'100dB'，鼻鼾簡直來得聲嘶力竭，下格床的'40dB'（今早才知是日本人，這個月碰到日本人的頻頻跟澳洲人的一樣出奇地高）亦不示弱。在Split 1700上發明的「催眠大法」──Die Fanta 4的「佛偈歌」循環反複播放，仍未見效。這趟可慘了，可能睡了不足4小時。 那位日本人，之前覺得他很粗魯罔撞，但早上打開話匣子後，卻變得很隨和，始終日本人有他們自己的一個框框。 因為商店在星期日全部關門，所以即興參加了一個Free Tour。在Free Tour中認識了一位中大翻譯人，tour完結後想跟他道別，但他竟然自顧自拍照先行溜了，完全不遵守獨行俠不成文的外交禮儀，唯有繼續找地方消磨時間。 在Hbf月台掀報紙，到Deutsches Museum又錯過了截人時間，最後想起Englisch Garten。竟然在路上重遇那翻譯人，更意想不到的，他身旁二人其中一位是year 3 "German Society"的同學（Michael？）！！！原來他已成為另外二人的tutor，真有趣。 昨天回hostel時已選定路上見到的Edison & Co. 作為今晚的目標。今次點了薯茸湯、炸豬扒薯條，及一杯Weiβbier，我覺得比平時喝的沒有那麼苦澀。 Waitress（老闆娘）每次收碟都問我「好吃嗎？」一時想不起有甚麼適合的外交辭令。唯有答"Schön!" 初進來時好像播放著一首在這一個月來經常聽到的歌，頗動聽的，可惜不知歌者及歌名。 找數，€14.8。身上只剩下約€32。 S-Bahn駛出市郊，路過一個地盤，起重天秤頂上插著一面異常巨大的德國國旗；再細心一看，原來它的鉤吊著一面細小得多的意大利國旗，我忍不住笑出聲！可惜趕不及拍下。 昨晚那間食店太可惡了，結果要在吃止瀉藥的情況下，乘坐夜機離開慕尼黑。... read more

For some reason couchsurfing's website was down and the couchsurfer I planned to stay with in Munich, according to the friend who picked up his phone, was still out of town. Therefore I had to resort to Hospitalityclub.org, a network somewhat like couchsurfing but not as vibrant and community-based, to find a place to say. However today I received a devastating surprise when visiting couchsurfing.com to see if anyone had left me any messages. Upon entering the website I was presented with this heartbreaking message: Dear CouchSurfers, Two days ago CouchSurfing experienced what could be described as the perfect storm. The database administrators we hired made two critical mistakes. First, we had a major, avoidable hard drive crash. Secondly, the incremental back-ups weren't executed in the correct manner, and twelve of our most important data files ... read more