After a 6days of travelling, I'm back in my cosy little room and with my clothes in front of my heater in order to dry them up before wednesday - my trip to Switzerland. Yea, I'm going to Switzerland on this wednesday till sunday...I think. It's not me who bought the ticket so basically I have no idea where to stay and what to play. I shall follow my friends and have fun! And when the time I got back again, I shall be back to books and take a week's rest before going out to travel again.. hopefully. I have to plan to go to London, Amsterdam, Belgium, Italy, Rome, and hopefully Barcelona. And when darling come over here, we shall visit Prague and Vienna together :D
On tuesday morning, we took a train to Fuessen and reached there at 6pm. Head to our private house hostel and it was really awesome! It's a private house and better than hotel, as in we have the kitchen, bathroom, living room, garden, basically the whole floor :) and what makes it even better is the cost. It's only 15euro per night per person. Dirt cheap.
Alps from the train
The view once I got out from bahnof
The bus station
panaroma view of the garden of our rented house
our cosy room with a huge window
bathroom with bathtub
me and antique piano made from wood
veranda with bbq pit
enjoying our time in the house
the alternative door. No, it's not a door, just a way with no door
I had a pork knuckle for dinner for the day and I concluded that German food was too salty for me. They like to use a lot of salt in their meals and I actually may think their salt are free! Grill fish, roast chicken, everything is coated with salt. But that's the only way you can taste the original taste of the food. However, the gravy for the pork knuckle is too salty for me though. And the potato knoedel is not my cup of tea. The potato knoedel tasted like potato kuih. I don't really like it.
On our way to find food
chinese restaurant spotted. In fact there's a lot of chinese restaurant here
the restaurant we had our dinner
enjoying the atmosphere
my pork knuckle
The next morning, we headed to Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castle to make a visit and to Fuessen town. It's a small town whereby we managed to visit it in 2-3 hours time. The lake there was awesome!
The next day, we depart for Garmish-Partenkirchen for Bavarian Alps. We missed the earliest bus to get there, and after I bought the Bayern Ticket, I got to know that I can't take the later bus as the bus was from Austria company. So I need to take another bus 5mins later, but the bus was never here. We met another 2backpackers from Taiwan and together, we took a bus to Pfrontten and train to Tirol, and Garmisch. We were so lucky to meet the ladies so we can divide our share of the bayern ticket and travel to Bavarian Alps together. It was really fun and it's my FIRST time to see snow! I am really overwhelmed! I do pray hard that it snows here in the winter so that I can see the snow flowing down from the sky :D
We spent a night in Garmisch and headed to Munich on Friday. The weather was not too good as it was cloudy for the whole day and we just spend our time at Marienplatz and the church nearby, and shopped around. Not an eventful day for the first day in Munich and we weren't too excited about it. However, our dinner were great! We went to the famous HofBrau Haus and they serve yummy pork knuckle there. Well although I didn't order as I was not feeling too well in my stomach and I do not want to eat too much. I've tasted the one Vivi ordered but I still think it was a bit salty for me. I ordered a salad with suckling pig. Young piglets I would say. It's not those suckling pig in chinese style. The meat was tender and soft. Superb!
After that, we took a train to Augsburg, where we rented a hotel there, and took a taxi to the hotel (my first time of taking a Benz taxi in Germany). We were so scared coz the taxi took us to a place like jungle! It's so dark without the lights but there are trees at both side! I was thinking damn it, what the taxi driver wanna do to us. Apparently in the end of the road, that's the location of our hotel... What a sankala place.
On saturday morning, we need to take a bus, and tram (first time taking a tram!) and train to Munich. There was a opening parade for the oktoberfest and it's a spectacular parade. I have never seen so many horses in my life but I've seen it in these 2 days and there were lots and lots of people there! We went to HB Haus tent and enjoy a big time there singing and toasting with others. Well, vivi, xc and me shared a 1 litre beer. The beer tasted better than what I have tasted in Malaysia but I still do not like it very much. After that, we did some shopping for the oktoberfest souvenirs and headed back to our hotel in Augsburg. We missed a bus and miss a stop, means we were in our bus but it was too dark and we missed it! So we stayed in the bus for another 1 round and the driver alerted us when we reached our place. It was so dark and I had to on my camera's light to lit up the road. What a place!
Guess what, on beautiful sunday morning, Vivi asked me to pass her the toilet roll outside the room, and to the shock of my life, I saw the only guy in our group, sleeping naked. OMG... brainless man. Luckily I just saw the side view and did not see other thing else. I really take my hat off him... Anyway, back to the day. We take some 20-30mins walk to the tram station as we do not want to be late for the 2nd day parade for oktoberfest. Running like crazy when we saw the tram and hop on into it, catch the train and directly reach the Therienswiese station. The parade was soooo long and I guess it lasted for 3 hours. We started to watch it from 10am and by nearly 1pm, it is still in the proceeding. We went off to find our lunch and ended up in a tent with empty seats. The menu was actually ok, the price for the event. The atmosphere was not so high as the one in HB Haus as this one was full with ah gong and ah mah. However, the oktoberfest beer brew by them was the best beer I had in my life! No bitter at all! All the ah gong and ah mah in the tent were so high as well, in a different was of course. They dance and sing and toast :D There was only a performer but he really brought up the atmosphere of that place. We really enjoyed it :D
And now, here I am blogging away in my cosy room after taking a bath and I guess darling has went out so I could not call him on skype. Tomorrow morning maybe...
Till then
