Munich scenes

My days in Munich were gorgeous. I met some lovely folks- Stu from Australia and Hugo from London and his friend (whose name I cannot remember) from Seattle. Good travel friends that I only hung out with for an evening but enjoyed lively conversation and kind company. That's one favourite aspect of travelling for me. Too bad I did not even take pictures of these pals.

Beer and a pretzel in the English Garden, near the Chinese Pavilion.





The Deutsches Museum



Delicious Pfankuchen mit banane und schokolade...the perfect post museum brunch...

Remembering Munich

I am back in Kuwait after my awesome trip to Germany. Absolutely no regrets about missing the Regina Folk Fest now. It would have been great but I loved my trip.

The Black Forest was lovely, though I did not hike. It's nice to get into the more rural areas of a country, in my opinion. I bought several nice classical recordings in Freiburg, which was a treat.

I loved Munich- a fabulous pedestrian city with great energy. I visited the Dachau memorial from there, which was the central concentration camp where many brutal ideas were hatched. It is amazing to think only 70 years ago people were treating one another in such a horrific manner it makes the eyes tear and the stomach turn.








While I was visiting Munchen (Munich) there was a celebration of gay pride, wherein there were rainbow flags, drag queens and concerts all about Karlsplatz and Marienplatz (the main pedestrian squares). 70 years ago...no such thing, these folks would have been shipped to a work camp where they would likely have died from poor health or suicide.

The day of my visit to Dachau, I spent the evening hanging out with a lovely Australian called Stu. We drank some local brew and talked about travel and enjoyed the Hofbrauhaus which was complete with a German polka band featuring an accordian player whose profile was a doppelganger to Bill Z. from Tisdale.

Deutschland

I have only a few minutes left of my internet time in my Munich hostel. There are many young, drunk folks here ,as there are when hostelling through Europe.

The trip over here was nice. I had a good seata companion on the way to Toronto and to Frankfurt. In Frankfurt airport, I stored some of my stuff, bought a five day train pass and headed to Baden-Baden. After some strolling and a visit to the thermal bath, I made my way to Freiburg, checked into a great hostel and went to a percussion concert. It was a long day, having arrived at 7am and not getting to bed til after 11. I slept until 2:30 in the afternoon...silly jet lag. My plans for hiking in the Black Forest were interrupted by rain yesterday and today I took the train here to Munich.

The rain finally let up this evening and I hope it has ended for the duration of the trip, though I will appreciate this last bit of cool, rainy weather I will experience for some time.

Time is out- later.