I've been in Germany for a week now and I'm still loving eating amazing bread.
I spent the first four days staying with Anna-Lisa in Recklinghausen. When you've been travelling, even when it hasn't been that long, it can be so nice to stay in a house. The Grebe's were very hospitable, Anna moved out of her bedroom and they offer to make me coffee pretty much whenever we make eye contact and also just feeding me up with bread covered in pumpkin seeds. Mmmmm. It was so lovely to meet Anna's family and get to know them a little bit and also to see her on her own home turf. We did a bunch of touristy stuff in the towns in the localish area including going to a zoo where I saw a bunch of Alaskan animals I've never seen before! We also spent a day in Amsterdam and visited Anne Frank's house. Anne Frank's house was really interesting and very well done. It was obviously very sad, but didn't feel like they tried to make it too over the top sad, it's obviously just a very moving story.
The last few days I've been in Munich. Two days ago I went with a few people I met here to visit Schloss Neuschwanstein (better known as King Ludwig's castle, or the castle the Disney castle is based on, Tash I don't mean to over-reference you in this blog but seriously, I saw the Disney castle!) It was really beautiful and the area surrounding it (it's about two hours from Munich) is stunning. It's very un-Australian with all it's rolling green green hills, pine trees and old old buildings and cobblestone streets.
We had a few incidences trying to work out, not so much how to use the trains here, but how to buy the right frikkin ticket, but it's all been adding to the adventure.
Yesterday I went to Dachau, which was, as you'd expect really awful. I knew pretty much everything before but actually being there and seeing places like the gas chambers is very confronting. There's a lot of emphasis on 'Never again' which I found quite sad because things are happening in so many places that, while not as systematic and on as large a scale as the holocaust, are a lot closer to it than we'd like to think.
I spent the first four days staying with Anna-Lisa in Recklinghausen. When you've been travelling, even when it hasn't been that long, it can be so nice to stay in a house. The Grebe's were very hospitable, Anna moved out of her bedroom and they offer to make me coffee pretty much whenever we make eye contact and also just feeding me up with bread covered in pumpkin seeds. Mmmmm. It was so lovely to meet Anna's family and get to know them a little bit and also to see her on her own home turf. We did a bunch of touristy stuff in the towns in the localish area including going to a zoo where I saw a bunch of Alaskan animals I've never seen before! We also spent a day in Amsterdam and visited Anne Frank's house. Anne Frank's house was really interesting and very well done. It was obviously very sad, but didn't feel like they tried to make it too over the top sad, it's obviously just a very moving story.
The last few days I've been in Munich. Two days ago I went with a few people I met here to visit Schloss Neuschwanstein (better known as King Ludwig's castle, or the castle the Disney castle is based on, Tash I don't mean to over-reference you in this blog but seriously, I saw the Disney castle!) It was really beautiful and the area surrounding it (it's about two hours from Munich) is stunning. It's very un-Australian with all it's rolling green green hills, pine trees and old old buildings and cobblestone streets.
We had a few incidences trying to work out, not so much how to use the trains here, but how to buy the right frikkin ticket, but it's all been adding to the adventure.
Yesterday I went to Dachau, which was, as you'd expect really awful. I knew pretty much everything before but actually being there and seeing places like the gas chambers is very confronting. There's a lot of emphasis on 'Never again' which I found quite sad because things are happening in so many places that, while not as systematic and on as large a scale as the holocaust, are a lot closer to it than we'd like to think.
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