GERMANY | Wednesday, 8 Oct 2008 | Views [581]
Day 8
Today we learnt a big lesson. We had breakfast and headed off to book a ticket to London to start to look for a place to live and work. We went to price a train ticket and were told it would cost 389 euro. Ohmi god. We spent the next 3 hours ... Read more >
Tags: london to munich, munich, ryanair, salzburg, train
GERMANY | Tuesday, 7 Oct 2008 | Views [501]
Day 7
Today we decided to take in some more history and head to Dachau where one of Hitler's first concentration camps were built. Instead of taking a tour we decided to get there ourselves which saved us round 50 euros. We went to the information ... Read more >
Tags: concentration camp, dachau, hitler, munich, tour
GERMANY | Monday, 6 Oct 2008 | Views [538]
Day 6
I was woken round 6am by girls having showers and decided it was time to get up. Today was check out, thank god and we had to find more accommodation. We walked the whole city before check out at 10am but mostly everything was booked, until ... Read more >
Tags: arabest, cheap, munich
GERMANY | Sunday, 5 Oct 2008 | Views [620]
Day 5
So hung over yet the excitment motivated us to rise early and head for the tents. Today was slightly quiter then yesterday as we knew what we were in for, another liver slashing. We waited outside the Hoffanbrau tent which is known as the rowdyist.... Read more >
Tags: beer, chicken, munich, ocktoberfest, rollercoaster
GERMANY | Saturday, 4 Oct 2008 | Views [565]
Day 4
Today we were up and at em! There was no time to worry about the lack of sleep, it was 6.30am and we had to leave early to get a good seat. We had some free toast with a quick coffe and then took off to the beer halls round 7am. We waited outside ... Read more >
Tags: beer, drinking, munich, ocktoberfest, snoring
GERMANY | Friday, 3 Oct 2008 | Views [584]
day 3
Today was a public holiday for the people of Germany so we were woken early by loud chants and kids as young as 14 swigging bottles of beers whilst marching towards the beer-halls. We knew today would be packed at Ocktoberfest and when ... Read more >
Tags: beer, beer halls, germany, munich, ocktoberfest
GERMANY | Thursday, 2 Oct 2008 | Views [560]
Day 2
t oday we woke up and decided to take part in the famous free bike tour. we met our english speaking guide at Marienplatz and watched the famous clock the Glockenspielwhich takes a whole 15 mins its split into 3 parts and finishes when the ... Read more >
Tags: bike, germany, munich tours, ocktoberfest
GERMANY | Wednesday, 1 Oct 2008 | Views [598]
We had arranged a pre booking with the Fanatics which offered a weekend hostel package. We booked an extra 2 nights before the weekend had commenced just to get prepared for the bender. We arrived at Hauptbahnhof train station and our designated ... Read more >
Tags: beerfest, germany, munich, ocktoberfest, octoberfest
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 | Views [3524] | Comments [5]
Applying for a UK working Visa has probably been the most frustrating element of my travel planning. I wasn't fully aware of the procedures and processing times the visa actually took so our booked flights had to be cancelled and re-booked to a later ... Read more >
Tags: canberra, uk visa, visa application
