Beer!

Myself, Charing, Jing and Richard flew into Munich Airport late on Friday night. We stumbled around the streets and eventually found our large hostel. The hostel had a large open area filled with bean bag chairs and hammocks - great for passing out on after a night of drinking. Friday night was spent drinking many local German beers in the hostel bar, which was jam packed. Met some locals and then called it a night.

Following morning, we left the hostel and found a place for breakfast. Our waitress did not speak any English and simply pointed to three different items on the menu. Not knowing what we were going to get, we all picked one at random. My "breakfast" was three hot dogs, with a white bun on the side. Not the breakfast I was expecting, but filling nonetheless.

Afterwards, we joined a free walking tour and got to see much of the market areas/downtown Munich. This tour included the show put on by the puppets and clocks at midday. We continued onto HaufbrauHaas, which is one of the more famous beer gardens in Munich. The garden is so old, that the roof still had swastika shaped paintings on the roof, which had been covered by Bavarian flags. Richard and I accidently split off from the group and ended up walking alongside the river and seeing some great statues/views of the city. We ventured into one of the large city parks and found ourselves at another beer garden. Here, we parked for most of the day. Jing, Angie and Charing eventually found us and drank alongside. We kept eating plenty of meat and other German treats, while drinking beer.

That night was spent recovering from the drinking, by drinking more at the hostel bar. The next day, Richard, Jing and I went to the Statue of the Giant Old Woman. The weather was freezing and we weathered the storm by camping out in the head of the giant statue. From here, we went to the Deutsche Museum (technological museum). I left the two and headed to Bayern Munich stadium to watch them play a league game, which they won 3-1. It was a great game and the crowd was going crazy.

I rushed to the airport, only to meet up the rest of the group and learn that our flight home was cancelled due to bad weather in England. The bad weather was a centimeter of snow/rain. Crazy how London shuts down at any bad weather. With another day left, we returned to our hostel for the night and then went to Salzburg, Austria the following day. We took the train and got to Salzburg, with not much time to do much. We filled the time by going to Mozarts Birthplace and then to an area where The Sound of Music was filmed. Then, we headed back to Munich, jumped on our plane (upgraded to Luftansa) and headed back to London.