Blogs from Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 109

Made it to our final destination after being eaten alive by mosquitos last night (our windows were open). My face is covered in bites and it looks and feels like I have chicken pox. Our alarms went off at 3:45am and we all jumped up to get to the water taxi. We got to the airport early so we had our 800th cup of cappuccino while we waited for our check-in window to open. I think the flight company was called Condor Flurgenhurgen (not even close on the 2nd word that's just what we've been calling it). After going through security and finally being called to board we walked down a long hallway and a few flights of stairs and ended up at a bus. We thought maybe flurgenhurgen was german for "magical flying bus" (like ... read more

Oeeeee, oe, oe, oeeeee.... Como estais todos?? Por aquí un poco pasados por agua, que esto no parece verano ni de coña...la semana pasada tuvimos entre 10 y 15 grados. Aquí todo el mundo dice que no es muy normal, que suele hacer mejor tiempo y más calor, pero empiezo a pensar que es para no desanimar al personal...y que no salgamos corriendo. Este fin de semana nos hemos hecho una excursión a Múnich, aprovechando que hoy lunes también ha sido festivo...yo no entiendo muy bien estas fiestas, hoy era Pfingsten, que en cristiano viene a ser el día de la iluminación de los apóstoles por el Espíritu Santo. Ahí es nada. Y el otro día celebramos la Ascensión del Señor a los Cielos. Lo de Múnich ha sido una incursión rápida de dos días al ... read more

Munich, Germany: STOP THE RAIN! We have yet to experience a full day without rain, and our first days in Munich were by no means an exception. Not only did it rain, it rained significantly harder and longer than it has before. The temperatures dropped into the low 40s for most of the time, only peaking at a maximum of about 55 during the afternoon when the rain subsided. Whatever we did to deserve almost 2 weeks straight of rain, we are truly sorry. When we woke up our first morning in Munich, the wind was blowing and the rain was pouring. It was so bad that we were forced to abandon the bike tour that we had been planning to go on. It would have been a miserable ride through the city, and the wind ... read more

Well today was quite interesting. Got up had a shower, then left to go see the Viktualienmarkt. Its an open air market. I just call it the Alien Market. Anyhow, we went there to get some food, lots of fresh fruit markets and such as well as other restaurants. First I got chicken nugget things and chips (french fries) and that didnt fill me so I bought the biggest pretzel I have ever seen, it was great. After we explored that market for a couple hours we decided to go to the worlds oldest beer hall, Hofbräuns. Thats where Jocelyne and I both ordered a liter of beer and she had her lunch since she didnt eat at the market. We had quite a good time there. The beer was excellent in that beer hall. Then ... read more

Had a fabulous day on Friday we went through a grand total of 4 countries! Stopped off at lucern to drool over all the fabulous swiss watches, i was in heaven! well hell really cause i couldnt afford to buy any! also went to Lichtenstein the worlds third smallest principality, our tour guide greg, took the three of us around, there were only 3 of us on the bus it was great, anyway greg loved lichtenstein and gave us an hour lecture about a country that is only 25km long, i could probably tell you various other useless facts but i wont bore you. After lichtenstein it was through Austria and on to Munich. I got to catch up with Claire and Sam which was absolutely fantastic and very exciting. i managed to convince them to ... read more