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Tazu Sensei's World Trip
Ok, so alot has happened in the last little while and this is the first real chance that Ive gotten to sit down and write a real email or anything. So, after spending a week in Australias gold coast having fun in the sun and having a blast on the rides at movie world and dream world with my sister it was off on a 36 hour plane trip to finallz arive in Barcelona. Barcelona was real cool. We stazed in a place called the sea point hostel which I fully recomend due to it being right down on the beach front. We stayed there for about two days and took in two of the Gaudi houses along with the massive Sirgada Familia (Gaudi's unfinnished church). I also got to have a look around the gothic quarter and managed to see Placa Espania which is this real cool palace.
After Barcelona it was off to a friends house in Narbonne in France for a night which was a part of this little wine chatau, and then we went to Carcasonne on our way to Switzerland. Carcasonne is this awsome castle just outside of Narbonne, and get this, people still live and work there! there are all these little food and souviner shops selling all kinds of things, even swords!
Anyway, we arrived in Switzerland a bit later than we expected so we drove around for a little bit untill we found this little camping ground beside lake geneva and set up for the night. got up early in the morning and set out to cross the Swiss alps into Germany. My god, Ive got to say Ive never been through such huge tunnels. there are tunnels under the alps that stretch for at least 3km! So finally we arived in Munich after being held up by massive amounts of road works all through out Germany and set up camp at this scody dodgy little camping ground with pay showers and discusting toilets and stinging nettle scattered all around the place (boy was getting stung by that an experience).
Our first real day in Munich was spent wandering through the food markets of Marien platz where theres an information centre in this huge old cathedral, and then on to the Rezidenz palace which used to be the seat of power for Baveria and was originally built by this guy called Maximillian the 1st. My god was that place somthing to see. its amazing just how ornate all of the rooms were.
16/09/06 the first day of the German beer fest, my god it was awsome! the place was absolutely packed and it was impossible to get a seat in one of the beer tents but hell the parade was just soo cool! we wandered around for a while after the parade in search of beer but with everything being so full it was real difficult to get a beer dispite the bar maids that were carrying 10-12 litre steins at a time.
the next day we were sick of the dodgy showers so we packed up and moved on to a new camp ground which was much better, and then we went off to pick up Jan from the airport at 10am. and waited...... and waited..... and waited.... in the end after having waited four hours we gave up and went to see Dachau the first ever German concerntration camp. Wow, what an eye opener that was. there was some seriously sick s*** that went on there and it wasnt even the worst of the camps. the next day we were back at the airport. turns out that Jan had accidentaly given us the wrong date and had no idea that we had been waiting for so long. anyway, we took her for a wander around Munich and completly by accident stumbeled into this place called Keizingz platz which turned out to be a major seat of Nazi power and where alot of the book burnings and Nayi rallys happened. Weird thing was it looked kinda like this Greek-Roman ruin area and was apparently all built by Maximillian the 1st all the way back in somthing like the 8th century. after having a look around it was back to the camp site to let Jan sleep off her jet lag then up early the next morning for another round at the beer tents. wow what a hang over that made for.
the next day it was off to Austria which is absolutely stunning, I mean the views are absolutely incredible there and the camp site that we had in Innsbruck was right up in the mountians (about 6km above sea level) and was beside a lake. we only spent one full day there but did manage to get a look in at the Swarovski crystalwalen, which is where they make all of the Swarovski crystals. Not a bad we tour but not what you'd expect as its marketed as a set of caves but is actually more like a museum but still well worth a look.
After leaving Innsbruck we headed to Vienna where we stayed for 3 days and saw the Nasch market which is about 1km worth of antiques and flea markets, the Kunst Historisches museum with its Roman, Greek and ancient Egyptian exibits, the Hofburg imperial palace, Saint Stephens cathedral the catacombs and the plague column statue, and finally the Kunst house museum's H.R. Geiger exibit where I bought 2 books on his art work called the Necronomicon 1 and 2 which were written in German.
After having played around in Vienna we headed off to Budapest in Hungery, which I'm sorry to say, I would not recomend doing. between accomodation scams run by the local information centre to the crazy roading szstem to being ripped off by attendants at the spa baths it wasnt a very good time. Although the Citidel is way cool and turning up to find out that there had been riots during the week before definantly added a little bit of spice.
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