Munich

The trip from Bad Dürkheim to Munich was a long one, with us leaving at 9am and not arriving in Munich until well after 3:30. On the way our driver took out one of his side mirrors while trying to get to the petrol pump which caused further delays and summed up the day really! Eventually we reached The Tent which was to be our home for the next 9 nights. For those who are familiar with The Tent, it is a massive tent which holds about 400 people which is put up every summer in Munich until the end of the Oktoberfest. Luckily for us we were staying in the same tents as we were in Bad Dürkheim, not the big one! Putting up the tents was a shambles, eventually we got away and jumped on the tram to find a pub to watch the Germany v Poland game. When we were nearly at our stop, a ticket inspector got on and since we didn´t have tickets, we legged it. We ended up watching the game at a pub and then went to Marienplatz which is where all the Germans were celebrating their win, and we met people from various different countries.

The next day was the big Biergarten crawl, we went to Hirschgarten, Park Cafe, Augustiner. Then a bunch of us went to the Englischergarten where we met some Irish lads who are also staying at The Tent and they offered to give us accommodation if we go to Ireland!

The following day we did a day trip to Salzburg which is in Austria. Stunning scenery, nice old buildings, Mozart, and The Sound Of Music. And all the bottled water has bubbles in it (just like in Germany).

Yesterday we went to Dachau which is a concentration camp, which was quite interesting. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and preparing for the big Samba party that evening. In the end it was a bit of false advertising, there were only a handful of Brazilians there. However the Footy Show guys (Sam Newman, Garry Lyon, Matthew Johns) were there and they even got Colin Hay (Men At Work) in to sing the Aussie anthem "Down Under"!

Will update you on the big game and Steve Paparella#s performance with the ladies on the next blog.

Tschüs!