Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Germany... The Land of Fairytales... and Beer!!
Sorry it has been so long but finally I have moved into my apartment and made it back from Germany... woooo!! What an amazing trip. Munich for Oktoberfest was a once in a lifetime experience. Everyone must go once in their life!! So parents, friends, grandparents (whoever is reading this) please bear with and don't think I'm crazy. When travelling you always have to be prepared to roll with the punches. We realized once we landed in Frankfurt- Hahn that it is an hour and 45 minutes from the Frankfurt Main train station... womp womp. (Niko if you're reading this... just laugh and don't say anything when I'm home at Christmas) The even worse news was that our overnight train to Munich left in 1 hour and 35 minutes from when we landed... well we met some Americans stationed in Frankfurt and one was nice enough to drive us to the train station (seems sketchy I know) but it was one guy to four girls and he got us to our train on time. I trusted someone that worked for the American military as opposed to a random German (if anyone has seen Human Centipede then you understand). Finally we made it to Munich. I decided to go all out for Oktoberfest and stay at a campsite with tents (and unlimited beer and sangria) which was great. As soon as we checked in at 7:30am we were handed cups of Sangria and a hearty breakfast of potatoes mixed with eggs (which helped with drinking in mass amounts). The first day I ate my way through Oktoberfest and then on Friday I drank my way through it. My breakfast consisted of Beer and something that was similar to a donut (pictured below). After meeting some Americans with Patron (stupid Americans) we decided we needed to leave (it was only 1:00). We went and laid down in this grassy area near a HUGE statue and took a nap until the next shuttle came at 6:00pm. We went back to unlimited sangria and beer. Needless to say I didn't go to sleep, woke up the girls I went with and we left for our train to Fussen. Fussen was beautiful. The mountains were gorgeous and reminded me a little of home and Boone! We stayed a short amount of time and saw the castle in Neuschwanstein and then barely hopped on another train to Heidelberg. Heidelberg was gorgeous and we quickly saw the important tourists places and hopped on a train to Frankfurt to leave Germany. What an eventful weekend but it was amazing. If I could live anywhere in the world... it would be Germany. It's beautiful and I have never met people who are so generous and willing to help even if they don't understand a word you are saying.
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