Friday, July 18, 2008

Wine is cheaper than water? Ok!

Ok, so Jess basically covered Fussen...it was awesome. The next morning we went to Munich. We checked into our hostel, which was nice, ate at a cool small street restaurant place (delicious gyros...) while waiting for our laundry to dry. Next we went to Dachau, the memorial site to the concentration camp. It was eery and sad, and unfortunately we were only able to be there for about 30 minutes before it closed. So worth it though. In the evening, we walked A LOT (surprise, surprise) and went through the biggest city park in Europe to a biergarten called Seehaus (by Carrie Taylor's recommendation). It was really fun. Jess and I had a liter of beer each with a pretzel and some fries. SO good. We had some really good laughs and conversation, met up with Andrew then eventually found our way back to our hostel. The next morning we left for Antibes, France. This day was to be a travel day...and it was. Italian trains suck we decided because the German trains are super nice and extremely punctual, while the Italian trains are never on time and made us miss 2 connecting trains. Long story short, we didn't get into Antibes until almost 1am (it was supposed to be 5pm) and we had to take a taxi to the apartment we were supposed to stay in. We met our host, Romain, and he let us in and showed us around. Romain's a really nice young french guy who studied computer science in school and now works for an IT company nearby. We basically crashed and slept in the next day. Jess and I leisurly made it downtown and to a beach by mid-day. After getting a bit fried, we tried to find lunch. Little did we know, nothing is open after 3pm for lunch. This one restaurant, however, let us eat cold salads. It was SO good. The salads were very filling and we really needed the produce after eating nothing but bread on the train. After lunch and some shopping, we headed back to the apartment to meet Romain and Andrew for the evening. We decided to go downtown for a late dinner (about a 40 minute walk), which was fun. We had REALLY good local food at a very reasonable price. It of course took about 3 hours, and we didn't leave the restaurant until after 11:30pm, but it was so worth it. This morning we slept in just a little and started our laundry (we haven't had much luck thus far). Jess and I headed downtown again and just sort of walked around to get a feel of the city. We had a great lunch and a nice conversation with a German couple. Today was much hotter than yesterday so we kind of took it easy. Tomorrow morning we head off to Barcelona, Spain and meet up with my friend, Laura from school. Barcelona means more beach time...YAY!!!

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