That night Sophie organised a crepe party...awesome! So we got to spent the evening chatting to consuming crepes, drinking beer, and then rounded it all up with a rowdy sing along. Being a complete hack, I bought out the classic song the I had made French people sing (The now infamous 'I got drunk in Melbournes') and spread it to a whole new country...it was quite a hit. Pete Doherty and I are planning on putting out a Christmas edition later in the year :)
The next day we said auf weidersehen to the lovely Regensberg and all headed off to Munich. We Were lucky that we could stay with Sophie' sister Francesca. Our frist night in Munich Sophie, Laurent, Kent and I made a trip to a market in the centre of town and for the first time ahd some traditional German grub. I had a pretzel with some cheesy stuff...the others all had various meaty morsels washed down with a stien of beer. I'm becoming a bit of a fatty boombah...and I have barely touched German chocolate! Laurent have overestimated the effect that a big plate of German meat would have on his delicate French palate was a casualty of the evening...he was left to head home and have Sophie (only month or two away form finishing her med degree) to nurse him back form good health. Kent and I proceeded on to the uber commercial HofBrauHaus and knocked back a couple of steins in memory of our fallen comrade.
This morning I had a rush of research to see if I could find anywhere in Munich to watch the preliminary final between the Hawks and the Bulldogs...I have also learnt that I may be stuck on a bus in Egypt and miss the Grand Final, which will be frustrating as hell if Hawthorn make it!!! My search having proved somewaht fruitless, Kent and I took trip to see the sights of Munich, while Sophie diligently studied and Laurent recovered in bed watching the German shopping channel...I had to be contented with my parents smsing updates. Hawks won, fucking awesome!!!! The first stop was the Olympic park, where we came along the surprisingly entertaining BMW world. Following that we saw something that we just had to do...Kent and I have taken approximately three trips together and we only have one tradition that we always follow...mini golf!!! The course was absolutely shiteful and showed none of the German engineering brilliance that we had just seen at the BMW factory. Despite this I prevailed by 6 shots and preceded to buy myself a Colc Calipo to celebrate...there is nothing sweeter than a victory icy pole!
We then proceeded to tour around the various sites of the park...teh stadium and the tower primarily. I have learnt one thing about myself for sure on this strip...heights really do make me extremely sqeemish!! I have also learnt that a lot of the big ticket things to see around the world are very tall. Basically I have a lot of diffliculty to go near the edges of these sites. But we went up and saw the place and then I went down asap and read a book til Kent was done.
We an hour long walk next to a canal to get to the picturesque Nymphenstein. It had a amazing gardens that we proceeded to spend the next few hours walking around. Then when we had just gone to the Metro stationto leave...disaster struck! I was flicking through my camera and deleting crappy photos. Then suddenly there were no photos...all 700 of my photos of the trip so far had vanished!!! This turned out to be my own stupid fault, as I had somehow hit delete all! Kent reassured me that his people (the Nerds) would be able to recover them...I was a non believer and knew that one should never worship a false god. I just came to accept that I had lost the photos of my travels to date! However after walking around Munich a little more and a nice Thai meal...Kent and Laurent went to work. Then eureka! Kent had found some random internet software that could get the software back...this process is currently in action on the computer next to me...and looking the very promising! Fingers crossed!
Tomorrow Kent, Laurent and i will actually get up beofre 9am!!!! and take a trip to Neuschwanstein, a spectacular castle.
But now time for sleep...it has been a busy day and I get to sleep on a waterbed!
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