It's official: we have been at The Tent longer than any other hostel or campground (or hippie commune, lol) in europe- making this our favourite overall place to stay. And we just paid for yet another night. I think I explained before why we like it so much. And today we found an organic supermarket nearby- bonus!
Yesterday, our Irish friends left for home, (Mayo and Dublin,) so Lou and I are by ourselves kind of. We have met a few people but no one worth travelling with. We also booked our flights for Ireland yesterday, which we got for the rediculous price of 0€ plus taxes.. Ryanair is stingy though, and they'll charge you extra for anything they can. For example, every KG over fifteen, is 15€!! That's 23.00CDN!! Per kilogram!! (Actually, the exchange rate is 1.60 right now.. eek. So its more like 25CDN) We are going to do our best to cram ten of Lou's 25kg into a carry-on. (You may start the betting pools now.. ) we are a little worried about all of our camping gear, but we'll see what happens.
Anyway, we are just hanging around this place for the day, because if we go into town we will deffinately end up at Höfbraühäus, and at the bottom of a litre of dunkle bier. Depending on how you look at it: disasterous. By the way, Höfbraühäus is the place where Hitler convinced the German people to elect him, thus starting the Nazi revolution, pretty heavy stuff, its crazy to actually be there. But the saurkraut and dark beer is to die for.
We met some guys from Newcastle, but that didnt go far beyond having dinner together in the cabin. And we met two kiwi couples who have the beds next to ours, but again, didnt really go much further than fa riendly chat. We're okay with it though: after a week and a half of drinking with two Irish guys, I'm pretty sure we could use a break.
We are heading to Amsterdam (round.. 5?) on the tenth- no idea what day of the week it is anymore- to meet Ashley and her friend, Sarah. And then we will probably just hang around Germany and the Netherlands until our flight our of Memmingen on the 20th. the plan is to check out Utrecht, Delft, den Haag, Haarlem, Hamburg and Hannover. And maybe Berlin since we missed the wall last time. Ehhh..
Anyway there are some more pics below. Hopefully we have more to talk about after Amsterdam Round 5 and the Netherlands.
by the way, I hear you people in kw have amazing weather.. must be nice. We have had rain every day, and 'highs' of sixteen. Double wool blankets at night; and we are deffinately rocking the white socks-and-Birkenstocks look. Whoopeee..
love k&l
ps.. check out Louie's travel beard. Ohgod.. Is that Elias the Menonnite?? ( When we are in Ireland, I think Patrick is taking him to his barber for a straight-shave.)
