arnika round the world

I think 4 days was probably enough as I didnt end up sleeping harldy at all for the whole time in Munich and now am sick and exhusted! but it was fun, did walk a little bit around Munich one day and it is a beautiful city, some really amazing churches and things. The last 2 days of Oktoberfest were similar to the first 2, dancing and singing along with the band, buying up on pretzels and all sorts of yummy food. I had to move hostels on the last night and stayed a quite a nice place where I went down to the tents with a cool Brazillian guy. The last night just as we were leaving the grounds it started pouring down with rain! Was with a couple of Aussies so we had to run back to the hostel and got compleately soaked…not cool and it was freezing! I looked like such a wreck when arrived back the staff gave me a free drink! But is was great, meet some really cool people and had a lot of fun, also actually meet Germans which doesnt often happen when your travelling as normany I only meet other travellers. So it was cool to hang out with some awesome Germans who tried to teach me all the words to the crazy songs (so theyre not just saying ´laaaalaaaalaaa blahh blah`), looking foward to getting back another year!

The day after it was all over I headed out to this big castle called…something german starting with N…built by some crazy king a few hundred years ago, apparently the disney castle was based on it but Ive heard that said about lots of places. Spent the day with a cool American who I meet and we went for a nice big walk up to the castle and then all the way back to the villgae to get the train because the bus wasnt coming for ages. Beautiful area…all these hills and lakes, very German/Alpine looking with little houses that look like gingerbread. On the was back to the village we saw cows that actually had cow bells! I couldnt beleive it! It was so old school, I even took a photo!

after the day out at the castle I jumped on a late train into Salzburg, Austria the home of the Sound of Music to get a good dose of cheese…..

I really do need to actually see more of Munich other than just the Oktoberfest grounds! Maybe tomorrow....it really is crazy times here, unlike anything Ive ever seen, its just massive! so many people and soooooooo much beer, I cant ... [Continue reading this entry]