Blogs from Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe - page 119

What an interesting few days, and each was certainly very different from the other. My first day was spent almost purely in transit from Venice to Munich. I got a quick haircut in Venice too before I took the train, my first since leaving Canada. The barber didnt speak English, but my passport photo is very recent, and was taken the same day as I got a haircut, perfect! I just showed him it and said "like this", he did a fantastic job. The trainride from Venice to Munich....wow....speechless. That was easily the most beautiful trainride I have been on yet, right through Innsbruck and the Austrian Alps. Too beautiful. I arrived in Munich around 2030, rather late. Luckily the hostel I had booked myself into was only 50 metres from the train station, a very ... read more

Hey, not much time to write...we decided to stay in munich one more day because we got tickets to a Beck concert! Then it´s off to vienna. I will write more when we get there! ok I´m off! Courtney... read more

Sorry for the delay in the update, last night I spent a lot of time at the hostel trying to find a place to stay in Venice (we leave for a night train to Venice in 2 hours), so I didn't get a lot of time to update. Yesterday we went to the Dachau concentration camp, which was very interesting and took a lot longer than we thought it would take, mostly because it was a lot bigger than we thought. It was very depressing and it made the rest of the day a bit sadder. After that we came back to Munich and walked around for a while. We went to the Marienplatz, a square by the old city hall which houses a very large cuckoo type clock, and we also saw a bunch of ... read more

Yesterday was a lot of fun biking in the Alps albeit once again, quite dangerous flying down gravel paths. Pretty much anything fun here involves danger but it was a good time, canyoning was my favorite sport that I did here. But after 4 days I was once again ready to head off somewhere new, and less expensive. Switzerland was ridiculously expensive, no seriously really really expenisive. We got up at 6am this morning after not going to sleep until around 2am after passing around a bottle of Jager with some of the other people at the hostel but i wanted to make the 7am train to Munich. Actually it was pretty sweet because we just slept at the hostel without paying last night because theres no room keys or anything and so many people work ... read more

We have all spent much of the past several weeks -- actually starting at the beginning of the year, as the front reached Bavaria early in 1945 with the extension of the aerial bombing campaign -- remembering the end of the German Grab at Global Dominion (sometimes referred to as the First and Second World Wars). Setting out from Munich, the trip to each event was shorter than the one before, as the front moved south during those weeks. The remembrances reached a kind of crescendo in the end of April with the commemorations of the liberations of Bavaria's two concentration camps, Dachau and Flossenbuerg, and Bavaria's major cities, and then concluded with three different observations of the end of the war on May 8. Throughout this process, mainstream politicians and commentators have been generally responsible ... read more