Missed breakfast because our bus for Copenhagen was leaving too early. + Slept on bus to Copenhagen. The bus did get on a ferry though which gave us a chance to eat and experience Scandinavian prices. Amy fell asleep leaning on a table while Brian was stuck watching TV. It wasn’t normal TV though it was a 5 minute loop of commercials: Paris Hilton Can-Can perfume, Ferry Tax-Free shop with alcohol emphasis, Christina Augilera perfume, Tax free shop commercial #2 focusing on candy, and finally Gucci perfume. It was driving him mad. + More sleep on the bus. + Arrival to Copenhagen and our hotel, “Chicken’s Private Pension”. It was some guys large old house that he rented rooms out in. It was pretty nice, and had lots of art work on the walls, sometimes very bizarre art work. + We followed Rick Steves’ walking tour. + Found a Pizza/Chinese all you can eat buffet. Brian ate 4 plates of food, and only stopped because we was worried why he was not getting full and didn’t want to explode. + Got ice cream at the “best ice-cream” place in Copenhagen. The ice creamw as nothing special but the cone was very fresh! + Walked back to hotel.

Story: Brian’s hunger hallucinations
We were both super duper hungry by dinner time in Copenhagen because we hadn’t eaten very much all day. While walking down a busy shopping street Brian excitedly exclaimed, “oooo! oh… I thought it was a bagel, but it was just a sock.” He was referring to shoe store that we had just passed.

Hello again! This one is really just about hiking in general. We went on this hike because of a Rick Steves recommendation. He recommended a really nice hotel, the Gustof zum Schluxen (we agree, it was a very nice hotel) that had a path behind the hotel that goes straight to the castles. If you read the post for this adventure, you should have realized that I was really struggling with this hike. Brian really did drag me up! Such a good sport! I’m sure he was very tired too. So here are my tips on fighting exhaustion when you have to make your way back to your hotel!

1.Walking sticks really help! It’s not just a placebo effect. Brian and I think maybe it absorbs some of the shock? Who knows. It definitely helps with distributing some of the strain to your upper body so it’s not all on your legs to get you up and down the hills. Shape of walking stick is also something to look for (see picture on this subject). And instead of paying 9 euro for a walking stick (even though it was very tempting and it had a compass on the top….) you can pick one up from the trail!
2.If the locals say the hike is about 1 hour, expect it to take longer. Twice to two and a half times longer. You will get distracted by pretty scenery, you will take pictures, and the locals are probably in better shape than you.
3.Having a buddy to keep pace with really helps in getting your mind off from the hills and the trail. Here, walking sticks are not only useful in walking, but also in helping you establish some sort of a pace. We made it back in less than an hour despite being so tired! That was quite the feat.

Hello again for another one of Amy’s Tips! I hope you enjoyed the last one, I know it was quite long! This time, I will write tips on Munich!

1.We arrived on a Sunday. Everything is closed! Maybe this is indicative of the Monastery history of Munich (Munich is, after all, named after the German word for Monk in Old German (if I remember correctly): Munichen. The Germans now call Munich “Munchen”). Only eateries are open, so it’s probably a good idea to get all the food related activities over with if you have nothing to do on a Sunday. We went tried Pretzels and Sausages and went to the Hofbrauhaus.
2.Eat a sausage! It’s very good. It tastes a lot better than what you might get in the States! I have seen people just walking around and eating a sausage. They have many “fast food” type stores that just sell varieties of sausages and hams. I asked for a sausage and they automatically asked if I wanted it with bread, and I said, “sure!” and they cut the bread and gave me a hot dog. Try to ask for Sauerkraut in the beginning of your order so they can let it heat up in the oven while they prepare the rest of your order. The first time I ordered from a “fast food” place, I think I annoyed lady by asking for sauerkraut after she had already finished everything else. Some sausage varieties are quite salty, though…(next tip…)
3.Be careful when you ask for water at a restaurant. They might give you fancy mineral water. This happened when we got a sausage sampler plate our first day in Munich. We were still parched afterwards! (see post on our search for fluids) Unknown to us, water from the tap is completely drinkable. The Hotel Jeddermann receptionist said that everyone in Munich drinks it. At a restaurant, the word for tap water is pronounced “Lightons vassa.” Don’t ask me how to spell that in German. We learned this from the bike tour guide. He is Hawaiian but speaks German Just ask the waiter for “lightons vassa” and he will bring you a delicious glass of cold tap water. Free. This tip is particularly useful. Otherwise Brian and I might be dehydrated after the first day!
4.For bike tours, make sure you bring gloves! Even though it’s April, it’s still very cold! The bike tour guide told us that it’s not usually that cold, but always be prepared! If you’re stuck and you can’t find any gloves for less than 50 euro, walk towards Karlsplatz on the main street. You’ll see a discount corner store on the left (when you’re walking away from the main Marienplatz). Buy gloves for 2 euro here! And whatever you might find useful Scarves are sold readily by newsstands with tourist gear. 15 Euro. They just might have “Deustchland” written everywhere. And be careful about buying a scarf that has the soccer/football emblem for an opposing team. They’re pretty serious about that kind of thing… ^_~
5.Free walking tours: Even in London, (and unfortunately, we missed the one for Bath), Brian and I have found walking tours to be the best way to explore a city. Bike tours are nice because you get to go to farther places, but you really speed by a lot of things and the guides aren’t as detailed with the history and information. It’s also difficult to take pictures while on a bike. There is a free tour for Munich available, operated by NewEurope (tip courtesy of Karen Cheng). They meet at 10:45AM everyday, rain or shine, all year, by Mary’s pole in Marienplatz. (the big pole with the four cherubs killing various enemies of the church). Our tour guide was Meghan! She was great. Lots of historical information, and fun too! NewEurope has tours for London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and some other cities. Check their website! You pay on a tips only basis.
6.Cell phones in the European Union: The O2 phone that we had from the UK now charges 35 Pence per minute to calls within Europe and (after experimentation) 3 USDollars a minute to call the US! Don’t do it!! Try to find an Internet Cafe. The New Europe tour suggested one that had 5 cents per minute international calls, but we didn’t have a chance to go before we had to head to Fussen. The O2 in Germany didn’t have the nice free international calling perk that the one in the UK had, so we didn’t get another O2 card. Also, you had to pay 30 Euro to get a 40euro bonus. If you paid a lower denomination, you wouldn’t get any bonus. This is in addition to a (I think…) 20 Euro fee for the SIM card. We checked Vodafone, and they had 19.90 Euro for SIM packet with a 10Euro credit, so we got this. It’s about 90 Euro cents to call other countries in the EU, 20-30 euro cents to call within the country, free to receive, and about 1.90 Euro to call the US. The rates change relative to the country that you are physically in, so you can theoretically buy a card in Germany and have the same rates apply when you are in Italy. Theoretically Unfortunately, my phone did not get any Vodafone reception when we were in Fussen or St. Goar. This might be because the SIM card was improperly activated, but it could also be that Vodafone doesn’t have as good reception as O2. We wound up using our O2 card in these places. We’ll see if Vodafone still has a problem when we’re in Berlin.
7.Do not do the high Hitler Salute! It is illegal and you might get arrested!!! This is probably true for all of Germany as well. Nuff said.

Here are some helpful (and likeable!) phrases that we found in Germany!
Lighton’s vassa (Tap water. The waiter will look at you weird because you didn’t ask for beer, but say it again and you’ll get your water.)
Sprecken see English? (Do you speak English?)
Isch Sprecken Kein Deustch. (I do not speak any German ~> very helpful when people start talking to you in German and you have no idea what they’re saying)
Entrue-D-gong (Excuse me, both to get people’s attention and to say sorry, pardon me, etc)
Bitte (We think this may mean several things: You’re welcome, please, go ahead, pardon me, and sorry? (ie, when you can’t understand what the person said and are asking them to repeat.) )

Walking tour where we learned about and saw the WWII and the East/West Berlin sites. + Went to the Pergamon Museum and saw lots of Roman and Greek Statues. Including the first nude statue ever. Scandalous. + A Scavenger hunt for cought medicine. We went all over Berlin to find something so easy to find in the US. Things were complicated because it was Sunday and aparently all pharmecies close then. + Uber updated the blog.

April 12th: Trek to Berlin
Took the train to Berlin + Checked into Meigneger Hostel, a very trendy place for a hostel + Went back and forth between metro station and hotel room, because we kept forgetting things + Took the metro to the Berlin Zoo where we started our self guided walking tour. + Saw Reichstag (German Parliament building, Brandenburg Gate, Jewish Holocaust Memorial, Unter den Linden (the main blvd. in Berlin), a former ghost subway station, Bebelplatz with the Nazi book burning memorial (an underground empty bookshelves), and Museum Island+ Amy craved pho or any kind of noodle soups. We found “Authentic Chinese Restraurant” It was run by a thai family, and their vietnamese soup was not a soup but spicey noodles. Amy ate Brian’s fried rice. + Waited in line to enter Reichstag, we literally squeezed in to make it before they closed

We know how a Cow feels
In Berlin Amy and I thought it would be nice to see Reichstag at night. Our guide book suggested that visiting at night would also allow us to avoid crowds. So we went and the line was slightly shorter than during the day, but a worker came by and told us that we should be aware that they are only allowing two more groups of people in before they close entry. We had nothing else to do that night so we decided to wait.

They began to let in the first group. We moved up the line, but no chance of entering. We did move up about halfway though, and so we though perhaps we can make it for the last entry!

Several minutes of nervous waiting goes by before they let the last group enter. The line is not very orderly and people slide in front of us, but Amy thinks to herself, “I am smaller than Brian so I can wiggle my way into the building and then I will be able to pull Brian in”

I struggled to keep close to Amy, but even with my highly developed crowd navigation skills I just was not able to fit through the small chinks and holes of this human river of people.

We fight and fight and finally I am steps away from the glass door. Before that I had wondered how they were counting the people. That is when I realize that we are actually not entering the building but entering a glass cage. This class room was their measuring cup for tourists. People bagan to push and shove, and with a final wave of people I washed into the glass cage. Amy a few people in front of me.

Then they began to close the doors. The group of people behind us began to shout that someone from their party is right behind the gaurd and if they could let them in as well. There are no exceptions made for the human measuring cup. So it seems like Amy’s “pull Brian into the building” plan would not have worked!

Amy calling number listed in Rick Steves’ for the Lusty Music playing Tourist Tschu Tschu train up to St. Goar’s Castle:
Hello? Sprechen Sie English?
Man: Yes.
Amy: Are you the train that goes up to St. Goar’s Castle?
Man: Yes.
Amy: Are you running today?
Man: Yes.
Amy: Where are you? And when do you leave?
Man: Where are you right now?
Amy: In front of the train station
Man: Oh, just come, I am right here. You see the church?
Amy: The red one?
Man: The red and white one.
Amy: Oh, okay, where are you?
Man: Just walk past it.
Amy: When do you leave?
Man: Just come down here and we’ll talk.

We walk down, past the church, and we are very confused, doesn’t a train need train tracks? But no, not this one. This one is a Mercedes Benz Tractor pulled train. Oh yes. With Lusty Music.
We walk up to the front,
Amy: Hello? This is the train up to St. Goar’s castle?
Man: Maybe?
Amy: ????
Man: How did you get my number?
Brian (lifts up his Rick Steves’ Book): Rick Steves’
Man: That book is great, It’s like the bible. He has my number in there??
Brian: (flips through pages) Here!
Man: (takes the book) Yep, that’s my number. (admires the tabs (Brian added these and he is constantly saying how they’re awesome) Man gives it back to Brian)
We get on the Tschu Tschu Train and have the ride of our lives through the tiny streets of St. Goar, in full view of all the locals. If you think seeing people on a carriage ride is ridiculous, imagine seeing two people on a two car Tschu Tschu train going through a pedestrian zone. Yeah. That was us.

+ Ate a free hearty breakfast at the hostel. We had our own reserved table, no one else was in the room so we had a private room too. Brian had a name card because he reserved for the hostel. It said, “This table is reserved for: Brain von Osdol.” They made him German. + It was a very cloudy and dreary day. + Caught a boat to cruise down the River Rhine. It was the only one with people waiting. All the other boat docks were empty. + We read Ricky Steves’ River Rhine tour guide. Learned all the crazy legends that exist in the area. We also learned why there was a naked river nymph painted on the wall of our hostel. It’s the Loreley! + Another fun activity was watching for the ridiculously large kilometer markes along the river. Ricky apparently erected these several years ago to help people with this tour. Amy also noticed another tour company using them. How do you just put up huge signs along a scenic river?! + Got off at Rudeshiem after a three hour cruise. + Rudeshiem was very touristy, and on the opposite side of the river. Looked at coo-coo clocks, carved figurines, and Christmas ornaments. + Failed at finding a quick bite to eat. Ate bread we pilfered from the hostel breakfast. + Took the train back even though we had round trip tickets for the boat. + Back at St. Goar on the opposite side of the river, Brian followed an Italian school tour group to find the ferry. + Caught the tschu-tschu train up to St. Goar castle. (see story in seperate post) + Used Ricky’s St. Goar tour guide for the castle. It was cold and drizzling. Brian’s hands turned into ice cubes from holding the book. + Cut through a vineyard to get from the castle to our hostel. + Defrosted Brian’s hands back in hotel room. + Ate dinner and the goofy receptionist helped us find the train schedule to get to Berlin. + Reverse engineered a German crazy window. (video coming soon) + Organized photos and wrote these blog posts. (Will we ever find internet? If we do our blog will suffer an explosion of posts! Woot!) + A student drumming group arrived at hostel. We heard them practicing. But they weren’t as loud as the noisy kids acorss the hall. + sleep zzz +

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+ We could have left on the train early, but we decided to wait for the hotel’s really good breakfast. + Amy is sleepy. + Took train from Fussen to Munich. + High speed train from Munich to Mannheim. + Semi-highspeed past Mainz to Bingen along the Rhine River. + A Local train from Bingen to St. Goar. + Checked into the St. Goar Hostel. Lady at front desk was uber energetic and friendly. She had a goofy laugh. + Ate a cheap dinner in the hostel. + Walked down to the town. It was along the Rhine. The town seemed deserted except for the yelling kids in the playground. + Before going to bed, Amy tried to go to the restroom down the hall. She claimed it was locked, but didn’t think anyone was in there. Brian went after her, and the bathroom door was open and unoccupied. We figured out Amy was shaking on someone’s bedroom door. Oh Amy… so silly. Good thing she didn’t knock. + Planned the touristing for the next day, and organized photos. We’re already up to around 4 gigs of photos! Amy is winning by a little. +

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Elaborated Bathroom Story with Mimi
me: I went out once to go push the door and then looked under and I didn’t see a light and I was really confused so i went back into the room and then I said “the bathroom is being used” and then I waited for like five minutes and went back out and I tried again, this time, more forcefully (I’ve had an experience when I just didn’t push the door hard enough and I was waiting outside, thinking it was a one stall bathroom… but it was really a multiple stall… and I just couldn’t open the door. I must have looked really ridiculous just standing out there waiting) but anyway, it didn’t open and I went back to the room and Brian was like “is the light on?”
“I dunno… I couldn’t’ see anything…”
“did you try knocking?”
“No… I didn’t want to rush them…”
and then he goes and tries
and he comes back and he says “I don’t know what you’re talking about Amy… the door was wide open”
“oh……. OH NO!! I think I was pushing on the wrong door!!!”
“oh man, some little kid in there must be so scared…”

there you have it, the full details

While Brian and I were really feeling the burn of our hike, we crossed paths with two Austrian Gentlemen in their 60s (or older), equipped with walking sticks and looking like they were out for a morning stroll. We smiled and nodded at each other as we crossed, just a little ways before the Austrian-German border. A few feet after we crossed, one of them turned around and started speaking to us in German, to which I responded, “Isch sprecken kein deustch.” Then, he repeated what sounded like “yappa? yappa?” several times. With translation, we think the conversation might have gone like this:

We realized after they left that it must have been really funny when Amy responded “Pinwagen” considering how they were asking us where we came from and neither of us spoke German.

+ Ate a glorious free breakfast in our hotel. Lots of good food, a nice friendly yellow room, and a view of the alps! + “Borrowed” some nutella for a hike this afternoon. + Set out on a hike on a trail from our hotel in Austria to the Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau Castles in Germany. Supposed to be a one hour hike. + Got distracted and video taped a dance with the alps in the background. Video coming soon! + Got distracted some taking pictures + Met two elderly Austrian men hiking on the trail (see related story in other post) + Crossed the Austrian-German border. + Took a detour to get closer to a lake. Avoided somewhat successfully the mud, made lots of frogs jump into the sanctuary of the lake, and took even more photos. + Saw a lumberjack on the trail. + The Neuschwanstein castle emerged out of the trees! It took us about 2-2.5 hours to do the 1 hour hike. + Bumped into a couple from our munich bike tour at the castle ticket booth. + Brian dragged Amy up the hill to Neuschwanstein. It was another 40 minute hike up a mountain. Brian acted as Amy’s walking stick. + Amy was very tempted to buy a walking stick at a gift shop at the top. It had a compass. She resisted. + We ate cookies and nutella while waiting for our tour. + Toured the castle. No photos were allowed so Brian operated in stealth mode. The castle was not finished before Mad King Ludwig died, but what was finished was elaborately decorated. Ludwig built the castle for his “friend” Wagner, and there were frescos illustrating the stories from Wagner’s operas. Either everything was painted or carved in the finished rooms. Mad King Ludwig sure knew how to build a castle! + Amy wanted to watch an informational video but it was in German and we didn’t have time to wait for the English one. + Brian dragged Amy even higher up the mountain to Mary’s Bridge, which overlooked the Neuschwanstein Castle on its mountain top perch. There were two beautiful waterfalls below it as well. + Headed down the mountain and ate some meat sandwiches on the way. + We were near exhaustion when we reached Hohenschwangau Castle for our afternoon tour. This castle was where the Ludwigs lived. Its down the mountain from Newschwanstein and 10 minutes up another hill. This caslte had hidden hallways in between the walls that a servant could walk in so that the family never had to see them, a hanky-panky door leading from the kings bedroom to the queen’s, and lots of other really fancy stuff like some ancient bread sent over from Russia… + Around 5 we began our hike back to the hotel. Amy wanted to take a bus. She says “I didn’t say that. I just suggested that we could possibly do that.” haha “suggested” + We were both about to collapse, and we could still see the castles. Brian was still acting as Amy’s walking stick. Amy was lamenting not buying that walking stick. Brian picked a stick off the ground. Amy found new energy with her new trusty walking stick. Brian soon followed suit and found a more slender and curvy stick to use. Note: walking sticks are awesome! They actually do help! We made it back in record time. Under an hour!!! by five minutes. Before we stopped we released our new friend sticks into the wilderness, next to a friendly tree. + Collapsed on the floor of our room. So tired. + Ate dinner and kept getting up to do laundry. There was a huge German Shepherd by the laundry room, but he was friendly. + After 2 hours in the dryer our clothes still were a little moist. + Figured out how to use our Eurail passes and how to get up to the Rhine Valley, our destination for the next day. +

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+ Satisfied Amy’s meat craving by having another Genuine Hot Dog (at the same place as the day before… “two days and we’re already stuck in a rut,” says Brian. (Amy doesn’t understand this phrase very well…) + Took a picture of a typical Munich Manhole + Met up with the NewEurope free Munich Tour + Learned a lot about the history of Munich and important sites for World War II history + During the twenty minute lunch break for the tour, we weren’t hungry. So we decided to run up the 300+ steps of St Peter’s tower, go around the tower once, and run back down to meet up with the group, almost on time. Amy barely made it up to the top, and almost tripped on her way down. Meghan, the tour guide, was so impressed with what we did that she said she would include our feat in her tour from now on. We are now officially “Legendary.” + Went to the Toy Museum, learned a lot about teddy bear history. Did you know? The Teddy Bear started out as an ELEPHANT. Yep, that’s right. + Went to the supermarket (They sell Pretzels in the bread cabinet!) to get some lunch and ate it on the steps leading up to St. Peter’s. This was a big step for Brian, the first time we went up these steps, he ran away in fear of the birds that flew at him. Brian says “No no! It was the ONE DEVIL BIRD! And it was dark!” Yeah, that makes him sound a lot more manly. + We had no silverware, so Brian had to “drink” his pudding through a straw. We also had these awesome potato snacks called Pom-Bars. They look like teddy bears, but they taste just like McDonald’s french fries! We could only have so many of them… We also bought a slab of sausage. It was cold and it wasn’t very good. + Went to first Jewish Synagogue built after WW II + Rushed back to the hotel to get our things and to walk over to the Train station, bought our tickets five minutes before train departure to Fussen, and ran across the train station to Platform 32. Phew. We made it! But…. + The train conductor checks our tickets after we had settled into our seats and told us in German-English (mostly German) that we needed to be in the “first car” to get to Fussen. So we pick up everything and make our way to the first car, Amy’s shoes hitting people along the way. We go forward until we see nothing but a big impenetrable metal wall in front of us, and we sit down. The train curiously stops in a station for a longer time than usual, but we didn’t think anything of it. When we finally started up again, the conductor sees us, comes over, and says something about going to a place that wasn’t Fussen. She walks away, then brings this random guy who spoke more English and he translated that the part of the train that went to Fussen was beyond the big impenetrable metal wall and the front part of the train had already split from the back part of the train that we were sitting in. He also said that we had to get off at the next stop and catch the next train to Fussen. + We think they made an extra stop just to kick us off. + We make a video explaining our plight (Very good job, Brian!) + We caught a train to Fussen an hour later + Got our first close up glimpses of the Alps! Highly recommended. + Get picked up at the train station by a nice man from the hotel + He takes us on a 2km detour to see Mad King Ludwig’s Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau Castles (the reason why we’re here) at night. Very pretty in their spotlit splendor! + Ate very yummy beef at the hotel restaurant. + Everything about the hotel was great, except for the odd problem of too much hot water. The water always got so hot it was scalding! It was very tricky to get it to be even lukewarm. I don’t think we ever succeeded…

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+ Sausage breakfast in a bun with sauerkraut = Genuine Hot Dog! + Danishes and croissants at a bakery before running out to watch the Glockenspiel at Noon + Desperate glove shopping before bike tour and failing (unless we wanted to pay 49.90 Euro for a pair) + Bike tour around Munich, zipped by a lot of places and saw a pagoda, a surfer, and lots of doggies + Tried to go up to the towers of churches and the Glockenspiel to get a good view, but all were closed (5PM, so late! Really.) + Saw a service at the two onion dome church, also saw the Devil’s footprint! The music was very nice. Amy got emotional and we left + Some more glove and scarf shopping. Success! Brian bought a tourist Deutschland scarf and Amy found a discount corner store with gloves for 2euro! (right next to the gaudy glasses and bling jewelry) + Went on a hunt for Munchen Kartoffelhaus (recommended as a must try restaurant by WikiTravel), asked a couple who ran a fruit stand, who sent us off somewhere along a big street, we couldn’t find it, so we asked someone at Burger King, who sent us up two subway stations away, then we asked someone at a hotel who had no idea what we were talking about. As a final attempt, on our way back to the train station, we checked the phone book. No luck. We gave up and went back to the main square for Mcdonald’s. + Went back and checked email and measured heads. (see blog below).

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Here’s a funny story for you!

It’s around 11:30PM on clear night in Munich. Brian and I are sitting in the lobby of Hotel Jedderman next to windows with a clear view from the street, using the free internet station. We received an email from Stanford saying that we could order our cap and gowns, but we needed to measure our head to get our cap size. Luckily, I had remembered to bring a tape measurer, exactly for this occasion. So Brian is helping me measure my head (an inch above the ears!) when two ladies walk into the lobby from the street. After Brian finished his measurement and I looked up, I saw the two ladies, standing over Brian’s shoulder, staring at us and the computer, looking confused and amused at the same time. I stared at them and they stared at me, Brian was somewhere in the middle. Then the ladies started laughing and I started laughing. I knew that they had thought what we were doing was the most bizarre thing they had seen all night, and I knew I had to explain it to them or I would never be able to live it down, so I said, “Sprechen sie Englisch?” (Do you speak English?) to which she nodded, and I explained “I’m trying to order a hat, so I have to measure my head!” and she said “Ohhhhh” and then babbled a lot about what she thought we might have been doing, which included, “Maybe you were measuring your brain?”

+ Arrived in Munich . The airport had multicolor lights like a German light show(conan o’brien reference) + Used German for the first time to find hotel + Went to main square Marienplatz + old lady said something to us in German about a fountain. We just nodded and pretended to understand. Hope it was funny because we laughed. + Everything is closed on Sunday in Munich. + Had a our first German meal with Pretzel, sausage, and 2.50 euro/bottle mineral water. + Went to Royal Residenz Museum and treasury. Big palace. Lots of jewels. + Something to drink for our dehydrated bodies in San Francisco Coffee Company. The only open store we could find. + Hofbrauhaus for dinner. A famous beer hall with a live oompa band, waiters in traditional lederhosen, big steins of beer, and drunk people.We ordered two beers. Brian finished his. Amy gave hers to two German lads sitting across from us. + Amy shakes Brian on tram ride home asking, “Are you dizzy? Are you dizzy? Are you dizzy?” + Updated blog about London +

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