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Melk to Munich

we are here have arrived in germany and checked into our hostel the jounrey was straight forward but looong on our final train we originally sat in wrong carriage and had a german man shouting at us until we worked out that we needed to be at complete opposite end of train. The German police got on train and done a random passport check and only checked ours and was looking at it for about 15mi

Asia and Europe

Dear family and friends This travel blog as been six weeks in the coming and although that might not constitute much in Australian time it feels like a life time has passed. I will not bore you with pages of text I will however let our photos speak to you. I was once the reciever of a travel blog and on many occassions I just looked at the photos and captions. There are 81 photos on here guys..

He Took The Midnight Train Going Anywhere

So do you remember that bit at the start of my journey in Budapest when I alluded to a major train fail Well this is it. Obviously my Oktoberfest addled brain wasn39t quite up to the challenge of catching an international train The following takes place between 5pm Monday and 5am Tuesday.I arrived at Munich Central Station early. Having heard lots of travel fail stories from Oktoberfest I

Oktoberfest 2011

There39s a strange identity crisis in Germany. Many students and acquaintences of mine mostly from Northern Germany seem to think Bavaria and all things Bavarian is not German. It is its own entity with its own language and culture that they don39t seem to be very keen on. I thought this was quite juvenile to be perfecly honest. There are differences in every country depending on regio

The Oktoberfest Madness

The next morning had us on a 50 mile hike to the bus terminal which turned out to be around the corner from where we started but then it was on to Munich . Again Once in Munich it was a quick costume change combined with stories of space dodging then to the halls.We got there later than the camping crew so there was a bit of catch up to be done and I actually ran into Tom there which

Mnchen Beer and KFC

Into Munich the home of the Oktoberfest. We had some free time so it was straight to the Hofbruhaus. This place is actually really cool I couldnt believe the amount of people just sitting around drinking beer it a great atmosphere. So we knocked back a 2 steins in 45mins before heading back on our very merry way to catch up with the tour and see the Glockenspiel chime which is really wo

Happy New Year

2011 has been the fullest year of my life. Its been full of love laughter and lessons learned. Its been full of pain and hardship or in other words full of rich experience and growth. Its been full of genuine people both old friends and new who have helped me find the path Ive searched for my entire life and prepared me to walk down it. Its been a great year but I know it

Dining on the AmaLyra

As I39ve mentioned before we are experienced sea cruisers which is to say while on a cruise we are used to food every 10 feet and a formal meal every 20 minutes smile. OK perhaps that39s exagerating a bit but with the 24 hour revolving door of food on sea liners we have become accustomed to a certain culinary expectation when we take a cruise. To add to our list of skeptical themes b

Munich

We39re in Munich on our way to Seefeld in Tirol momentarily

Unsere Reise

Voller Erwartung und einer Prise Nervositt starteten wir Jonas und Peter am Morgen des 02.11.2011 unsere groe Reise. Genauer gesagt ging es schon um 4Uhr los Das heit 3Uhr klingelte der Wecker damit man noch die letzten Utensilien im Rucksack verstauen konnte in Ruhe das letzte gesunde Frhstck zu sich nahmNachdem wir am Flughafen in Mnchen angekommen waren und erfolgreich

White Christmas

I woke up one rainy morning in Beirut with nothing more to do than to formulate an exit strategy. With Israel to the south only bombs are allowed to cross the LebanonIsraeli border and Syria to the east and north my options were limited. Although Im not going to lie I was going to go through Syria. Id read the current news and spoke to both Lebanese and Syrians about the safety of suc

The Long Way Round

Hello and welcome back to the blogIts hard to believe that its been nearly four years since we arrived in New Zealand. That also means its been almost four years since weve had a big adventure. Aside from a couple of visits across the ditch to Australia on my part and travels in our adopted homeland its been fairly quiet of late. And so it is with much excitement that weve dust

MUNICH

So with some time up my sleeve before Christmas in Paris I decided to head to Germany Czech Republic and Netherlands. As I was never planning on going to these countries I did some last minute research and decided i39ll have approximately 3 or 4 days in each place before arriving in Paris on the 24th of December.I left Interlaken Switzerland by train at about 11am and then arrived at my firs

City to Surf My time in Munich

It started way back in 1811 as an agricultural show now it attracts over 5 million people who consume 7 million litres of beer and scoff down over 120 000 sausages in big tents. The 17 days of fancy dress and tipsy travellers slurring eins zwei drei g39suffa One two three drink is Oktoberfest. My choice of beverage may not be beer but I did make it to Oktoberfest to take a l

Octoberfest in munich

Had a slight dely due to very good beer in munich. tomorrow I will continue my adventure.

Waiting Game

No snow yet so no real work. It has been raining a lot so I have stayed inside and read and played cards. My roommate Jack and I decided to trek to Munich so we took the train there but it was rainy and miserable so we came straight back after grabbing an expensive lunch at the HackerPshorr Haus. Today I worked with the kid39s program Just For Kids. Five of us hung out with eight little peopl

Parfum de Backpacker

Cleanliness was never really expected on this trip and eventually it wasn39t even a priority. I stopped paying to use wash machines and dryers and even sink laundry became less and less frequent. Sometimes when I rode night trains I even skipped brushing my teeth in the morning and there was nothing I could do about my greasy hair. I knew that I was no match for Coco Chanel39s newest scen

Update

Hey everyone sorry for the late update. They have been keeping us really busy. Today marked the end of orientation. I have the weekend off and then we train for two days. I will be an equipment issuer. I have a really cool roomie named Jack. Hes from St. Louis and graduated in international business. Everyone else here is really easy to get along with. I have never clicked so well with so many

Christmas Market Extravaganza

This year for Thanksgiving Deb Jane and I rose very early almost as if we were going to make a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner but instead we hopped on a flight to Munich and trained down to Salzburg before lunch time to partake in a wonderful AdventChristmas tradition outdoor Christmas Markets. Once we had dumped our bags at the hotel we headed towards the old city of Salzburg below the

Arrival

I have made it safely. The flights over here weren39t too bad. Once I landed it was 39hurry up and wait39 for the next half day. I live in the shining as in the horror movie part of the living quarters so named because this was the psychiatric ward when it was a Nazi hospital. This might explain why I am up at 1 AM local time writing this blog. I went to sleep around 8 and now I am r