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We miss everyone! 10 weeks til we come home for a while!!!!!
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Munich Oktoberfest 2007
Time to get some updates done. (Pics to follow)
First night we did a little shopping in the main area of Munich and checked out Marienplatz, Glockenspiel and central Munich. We were both fairly impressed with how well organised Munich was, but I guess that's to be expected out of the Germans. For dinner on our first night, we went to a genuine small little beer hall for dinner and damo had bratwurst and sauerkraut and a couple of weißbier. After this we wandered back to our hostel accommodation (AO Hostels) which was brilliant - anyone heading to Munich - this is a GREAT cheap place to stay.
The next day we woke up and headed up to the Glockenspiel to meet up with Mike's Bike Tours to head off for our tour of Munich. There was a heap of people, and we were separated into 2 groups. Nik was clever enough to realise that there was a heap of raucous people all together and going into one group - we joined in with them. The people were a bunch of Texans that had flown over for Oktoberfest, and they were all top shelf people. We went cycling around Munich and were shown many cool things. We went and had lunch in a Chinese Beergarden in the middle of the Englisher Garten Steve-O tour guide getting in fight, checking out the Englisher Garten, Nudist Meadow, Stationary Wave, piss up afterwards with Texans at the Hofbrauhaus Beer Hall til laaaate.
Woke up late, moved accommodation from A&O Hostel to Jaegers. Did a bit of shopping for Lederhosen etc. Can't remember what we did that night. Probably not much as we wanted to get to bed early so we could get up early the next day. Didn't get much sleep at the new hostel, so woke up a bit late, and met up with Jason and Steph and the rest of the fighter pilots at the Hofbrauhaus beer tent at the Oktoberfest. Stayed there til about 10pm, and ran into the Texans again, and also Eion and Paul.
Woke up late. headed back to Oktoberfest later in the day (about 8pm) and met up with the fighter pilots again (less Jason and Steph, and much phone confusion involved). Ended up staying til closing time at the Paulaner tent, and met up with a local and got chatting to him and then headed into central munich to some nightclub that was at a hotel and stayed there until about 2.30am. Walked home, and met up with a bloke from Boston in the lobby of the hotel and we got chatting to him and we ended up making it to bed at about 5am.
Wrecked for all the next day. Woke up about 2pm and went and got food, and made our way back to the O-fest, but this time we were both fairly keen to give the grog a bit of a swerve. We went on a few rides (Ferris Wheel, Hession mat down a slippery slide, Wildemaus Rollercoaster), and bought a few souvenirs and generally just checked out the carnival. This was our last night, but we were both rocking a fairly bad hangover from the night before, so we gave the grog a miss, but still ended up meeting up with Eion and Paul at the Hofbrauhaus tent again. We stayed with them until closing time, made our way home and packed as we were to fly out the next day.
First night we did a little shopping in the main area of Munich and checked out Marienplatz, Glockenspiel and central Munich. We were both fairly impressed with how well organised Munich was, but I guess that's to be expected out of the Germans. For dinner on our first night, we went to a genuine small little beer hall for dinner and damo had bratwurst and sauerkraut and a couple of weißbier. After this we wandered back to our hostel accommodation (AO Hostels) which was brilliant - anyone heading to Munich - this is a GREAT cheap place to stay.
The next day we woke up and headed up to the Glockenspiel to meet up with Mike's Bike Tours to head off for our tour of Munich. There was a heap of people, and we were separated into 2 groups. Nik was clever enough to realise that there was a heap of raucous people all together and going into one group - we joined in with them. The people were a bunch of Texans that had flown over for Oktoberfest, and they were all top shelf people. We went cycling around Munich and were shown many cool things. We went and had lunch in a Chinese Beergarden in the middle of the Englisher Garten Steve-O tour guide getting in fight, checking out the Englisher Garten, Nudist Meadow, Stationary Wave, piss up afterwards with Texans at the Hofbrauhaus Beer Hall til laaaate.
Woke up late, moved accommodation from A&O Hostel to Jaegers. Did a bit of shopping for Lederhosen etc. Can't remember what we did that night. Probably not much as we wanted to get to bed early so we could get up early the next day. Didn't get much sleep at the new hostel, so woke up a bit late, and met up with Jason and Steph and the rest of the fighter pilots at the Hofbrauhaus beer tent at the Oktoberfest. Stayed there til about 10pm, and ran into the Texans again, and also Eion and Paul.
Woke up late. headed back to Oktoberfest later in the day (about 8pm) and met up with the fighter pilots again (less Jason and Steph, and much phone confusion involved). Ended up staying til closing time at the Paulaner tent, and met up with a local and got chatting to him and then headed into central munich to some nightclub that was at a hotel and stayed there until about 2.30am. Walked home, and met up with a bloke from Boston in the lobby of the hotel and we got chatting to him and we ended up making it to bed at about 5am.
Wrecked for all the next day. Woke up about 2pm and went and got food, and made our way back to the O-fest, but this time we were both fairly keen to give the grog a bit of a swerve. We went on a few rides (Ferris Wheel, Hession mat down a slippery slide, Wildemaus Rollercoaster), and bought a few souvenirs and generally just checked out the carnival. This was our last night, but we were both rocking a fairly bad hangover from the night before, so we gave the grog a miss, but still ended up meeting up with Eion and Paul at the Hofbrauhaus tent again. We stayed with them until closing time, made our way home and packed as we were to fly out the next day.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Slackness on Blog posting and Aussie musings
Okay - we've been particularly bad - worse than normal - at keeping the blog up to date.
This is the start of changing things around.
We've got a lot that we've got to catch up on, but this post isn't for that.
Since the last Monaco post, we've been to Belgium, Greek Islands and Spain (and perhaps another trip to Wales too...). There will be further posts with more detailed entries about them (and lots of piccies....)
This post is just to let everyone know that we're getting back in touch with our Aussie roots, and Damo is getting in touch with his for the first time.
We've just been sitting on the floor of our flat eating Milk Arrowroot biscuits with butter and Vegemite on them.
That's right - Damo has been eating Vegemite for the first time in his life, and HE LOVES IT!!!! We were just chatting about it, and he reckons that the last time he tried Vegemite was probably literally about 20 years ago!!!
Strange how your taste buds change.....
We're coming back to Oz for about 6 weeks at Christmas time this year, and we CAN'T WAIT to see everyone.
We miss you all heaps and can't wait to see you all!
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