After a very tired and slightly depressing day of airline travel I arrived in Munich and met up with Tim and Miren at a large, popular hostel. We only spent one night there but that was long enough to meet about six hundred drunk and annoying American 18 year olds.
However, I'm proud to say that it was a young Australian girl who took out the gold by being the first to pass out on the bathroom floor in a pool of vomit in a very strong time of "8pm". After making sure that she wasn't actually going to die, I offered to take a photo so she could cherish the momentous occasion forever. Note to self: big hostels in Barcelona, Munich, London are to be avoided.
Things improved rapidly the next day as we hired a car and drove South, past the underwhelming Neuschwanstein Castle and into Austria. I've always enjoyed driving in foreign counties and the spectacular alpine scenery made this trip even better.
We spent the night in a caravan park just across the Austrian border which had a spectacular view of Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany. Through a powerful telescope you could just barely make out climbers and after dark their camp-fires speckled the rock face. The next day we took a cable-car up to about 1500m and spent the afternoon hiking the trails above the Ehrwald Ski Fields. Not quite as scary as Zugspitze but still pretty spectacular. Many thanks to Tim and Miren for a great weekend!
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