 | Taking the train into Munich
2007-09-20, Plattling, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | Even though was physically exhausted by all the walking around the past two days, I still tossed and turned all night and finally just had to get up and out of bed this morning about 5:30 a.m. I went... |
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 | Exploring Straubing's old city
2007-09-17, Straubing, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | Mom and I were both up pretty early this morning. I was already downstairs trying to decide on where we might go today when she came downstairs. We were just about out of everything to eat so I aske... |
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 | Another day of rest
2007-09-16, Sankt Englmar, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | I could tell all that walking took it’s toll on mom yesterday. She woke up late this morning still coughing, her throat very soar to swallow and her eyes were very puffy and swollen. She kept asking... |
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 | Weihenstephan Brauerei
2007-09-15, Freising, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | It was close to 4:00 by the time we were done with the tour and it didn’t look like we were going to have time to go into Munich today. Dad still wanted to find this beer his friend told him about in... |
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| Visited the Concentration Camp at Dachau
2007-09-15, Dachau, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | Mom was having another rough night sleeping and had come downstairs to turn the T.V. on to find out what time it was. She found some program on that interested her enough that she was still up watchi... |
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 | Day of rest for Mom
2007-09-14, Sankt Englmar, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | Mom had a terrible night last night. I could hear her coughing down the hall and began throwing up around 3 a.m. She hadn’t eaten too much in the last couple of days and was complaining of cold symp... |
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 | Hohenschwangau & Neuschwanstein
2007-09-13, Schwangau, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | I sat in the backseat for the three hour drive to Schwangau and gave Dad his first opportunity to drive in Germany. He did pretty well even though we missed two turns when the GPS system confused us.... |
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 | Martin the mushroom admirer.
2007-09-14, Dresden, Germany. By: kjkerr | | Guten tag!
We arrived in Dresden at 9.45 pm and once off the train, Martin was waiting there meet us, a very excited Martin, grabbing Mike in a great big bear hug before Mike even had a chance to p... |
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| On the way to Schwangau
2007-09-13, Perasdorf, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | Boy, did today ever turn out to be a long one. I woke up bright and early, as usual, just after 6 a.m. and was shocked to find that there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the sun was already beginning t... |
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 | Casual shopping day in Deggendorf
2007-09-12, Deggendorf, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | We got a bit of a late start today. Both Mom and Dad felt like they were coming down sick with coughs and stuffy heads. We had already decided to go touring locally today though anyway so, after a q... |
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 | Stuck in the mud
2007-09-11, Schwarzach, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | The ride back from Regensburg should have taken us just about half an hour. As I pulled off the autobahn, however, to head back into the mountains, we came into a picture-perfect view of the Schwarza... |
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| A Day in Regensburg
2007-09-11, Regensburg, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | It was raining pretty steady by the time everyone got up this morning. We had enough stuff from the market yesterday that we didn’t need to go out anywhere for breakfast. So after eating some hard b... |
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| Sausages and sauerkraut
2007-09-11, Gottingen, Germany. By: kjkerr | | Our introduction to Germany was a rather strange one.
It began with 8 hours in an extremely uncomfortble second class seating cabin on the night train from Paris to Hannover, ie 6 people in one littl... |
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 | Ralaxing Day in St. Englmar
2007-09-10, Sankt Englmar, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | Today turned out to be a pretty laid back day. The fog and clouds were so thick this morning you couldn’t even see across the street through the windows. We learned that breakfast was served in the... |
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 | 1st Day in St. Englmar
2007-09-09, Sankt Englmar, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | I slept pretty well last night. The down comforter kept me very warm but the mattress did have an irritating speak to it that sounded like a small bird chirping every time I moved. I got out of bed ... |
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| Arrived in München
2007-09-08, Munich, Germany. By: tommyexcel | | It was a very short 90 minute flight from Paris to Munich and you could really see the big change in the weather as we began our descend into Franz Joseph Strauss’ Flughafen. The thick, dark grey clo... |
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 | "Hast du Fliege Kaufsir?"
2007-08-06, Berlin, Germany. By: ajmartino | | "Wha....?" I said dumblz on several occassions to this frequent question in the the Berlin equivlant to Dj´s. Translated "do you have flzbuzs". not verz interesting i know but there zou go. (the z and... |
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 | Last day in Munich
2007-07-21, Munich, Germany. By: abanzho1 | | So looking over the stories I have posted, I see manz mistakes. It bothers the hell out of me, so I will fix them when I get to Oxford tomorrow when there is a normal keyboard instead of this German o... |
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 | Dachau and the Third Reicht Tours
2007-07-20, Munich, Germany. By: abanzho1 | | Today was our complete Germanz history day. As many of you know, I am facinated with WWII and all its components. Well, Munich is the place of the first concentration camp, Dachau, created in 1933. To... |
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 | Arriving in Munich - Part 2
2007-07-19, Munich, Germany. By: abanzho1 | | Disclaimer: Certain keys on the German keyboard are switched such as the 'y' and the 'z' keys. Please forgive any mistakes.
So, when I typed the last message from my phone on the train last night, ... |
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 | 2 more days and ill be back in Canada.
2007-07-15, Kreuzrath, Germany. By: sambo | | Since Iv been here iv learned many different things about Europe...
1. People dont care much for grassy lawns
2. practically every country has a different electrical socket(?)
3. Laws here are used... |
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 | Photos
2007-07-09, Frankfurt, Germany. By: Marcat | | Will see if we can upload more photos at the airport but not holding our breath.
Glad to know your happy now Nick! I only ever aim to please :-p
Kyle & Merrin have over 500 photos so believe me add... |
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| 2 Leather Jackets later .. .. ..
2007-07-09, Frankfurt, Germany. By: Marcat | | This morning Merrin and I went shopping .. .. .. apparently according to the boys we took over an hour! 2 Leather jackets later we left very happy with our purchases! Reduced down from 160 euro to 7... |
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| Free Style Camping
2007-07-08, Black Forest, Germany. By: Marcat | | cars cars cars and more bl00dy cars at the Mercedes Museum *yawn* however others all think it was wonderful *yawn again* BUT in saying that the history of Mercedes and Germany on the time line down th... |
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| Mad King Luds Castle & Mercedes Benz
2007-07-07, Stuttgart, Germany. By: Marcat | | Amazing Amazing Amazing but full of tourists! We were on first tour through thankfully! Linderholf is still all of our favourite castles!
So many tourists there in big TOUR groups we started losi... |
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