SOOOOOO not happy!
Id just typed about a page and a half telling you all what Ive be doing in Lyon, and Freiburg, and I was about to get to Munich, but the stupid computer lost it all!
Hmm…. quick version?
- They’ve got a driver-less train in Lyon, which I caught about 4 times before I even realised!
- We had a group of musicians move into the hostel in Lyon, who were nice enough to entertain us with their music (all night!!!)
- On my way to Germany, I stopped in Switzerland (and had some small problems with currencies - oops… they don’t use Euro!!)
- German people are really nice!! They actually help you!!
Alright….. now… lets just give you a quick rundown of Freiburg.
I arrived, and had a bit of trouble finding the hostel… cause the tourist office was closed!! I finally managed to find someone back at the train station who helped me out, but I was worried for a while! In my room there was an Arabic guy who had been there for a while. He took me and an American guy around on a “City Tour” on my first full day there.
Remember me talking about the trams in Montpellier? Well, in Freiburg,they have the OTHER trams that we have in Melbourne… very weird. Natalia (my cousin) told me that Yarra Trams is run by a French company, which explains the French trams… I’m guessing our other trams are run by a German company?
Well, I’m in Munich now, and I’ll be heading off to Berlin tomorrow.Today I went to Dachau, where there is an old Nazi concentration camp (in fact, the FIRST and longest running Nazi concentration camp). It was the most depressing and disturbing place I think I’ve ever been. I think the part that disturbed me the most was after I walked around the museum, and looked around the grounds where they used to have all the rooms (with beds cramped up as close as they possibly could), I found this nice-looking “cottage” off to the side, which had some nice trees and plants and flowers around it. I assumed this must have been where Nazi officers stayed or something, until I walked it. It was the crematorium, along with their very own gas chamber. Lovely cheery stuff.
Anyway, on a more happy note, I went out last night! (yey!) When I arrived at the hostel, I met an Australian girl called Heather. I soon found out that she lives in Blackburn (a couple of suburbs away from me!), and that she’d just met another Australian guy in the hostel who lived in Templestowe. Very strange - three people who live within about 5-10kms of each other meet on the other side of the world! Anyway, Paul (the Templestowe guy) met this girl on the train that day who invited him to a curry/movie night for some group that turned out to be a left-activist protest group (like the people we have in Melbourne that do the WTC and M1 protests). They were really nice people tho, and they cooked a damn good curry! After that, we went out to an underground Jazz club that we’d found in the Lonely Planet guide to Germany. We’re planning on heading there again tonight, cause we only arrived 1/2hour before closing last night, and it was REALLY awesome!
Anyway, that’s all for now. I think I’ll send this before the computer goes crazy on me again!
I’ll probably say more when I get to Berlin!
Update: Photos from Munich
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