The days after....

Almost 2 months passed by since I arrived back home 

in Germany. The first weeks were weird.I felt like a 

stranger. So many tall ppl (both horizontal and vertical).

 And I understand almost everything they say. 

Weird. Still feel sometimes alike.

Still back in Taiwan, a women working at our International

Office, asked me to write an article about my experiences 

abroad in Taiwan and in general. This weekend it 

was finally published. Its an excerpt out of a series of

articles of students from Augsburg studying far far 

away or at interesting places. It in German though. 

Last last week, some friends visited me in Germany.

The schedule was pretty though. Munich-Neuschwanstein-

Zugspitze-Munich. We had a great lack of sleep during

these days. Anyways It was a nice and interesting trip. I 

managed to see lots of spots in Germany I have never traveled

before. So it was interesting for me as well.

This is the second day at Schloss Neuschwanstein.

Its the Alpsee. You can walk around it or take a boat.

It is allowed to swim there as well.

The yellow one is Schloss Hohenschwangau. Which we 

did not visit cause we all thought its quite ugly looking.

This is were I dropped my camera. So the objective broke,

but in a weird way so that I can still use the camera and 

it works perfectly. Strange shit.

Row row row your boat gently down the stream ...

well what we did with boat was far away of using

it the right way. We kind of raped the boat. Anyway

we did not fall. And arrived back in time. 

We had to wait around 3-4 hours for our tour. 

And arrived to late. The tickets say that there is 

no refund. Oh oh. We just payed 11 Euro. ( Student-discount)

But still. In the end we managed to enter with another group.

He he. 

So  actually you climb a lot of stairs. And walk from one

room to another room. Then a voice is telling you some stuff.

And then after 15 min it is finished and you end up in

a souvenir - shop- mile. Hm i don't know what to think of the

castle. In my opinion it looks more like a jail from the outside.

And it so new. I expected it to be way older. But how to 

say the area around the two castles is pretty nice and

definitely  worth a one day trip. And its not even so expensive.

Alplake next to it.

Pointing at Hohenschwangau

The castle was under construction this time. 

But from this side there was almost no construction

stuff visible. 

The so called "pool"

On the 3 hs something train ride back home to Augsburg,

we suddenly meet two asian looking girls, one from Taiwan,

one from China. We talked a little and found out that, one

of the girls studied at Yuan Ze as well, and know lots of ppl

I know. The world is truly so small. 

3 Day Zuspitze or how my taiwanese friends called

Zugspeis. Ha ha. To funny. Zugspitze is around 2,30 hs

away from Munich, by train. You can reach the Mountaintop

by hiking, or you take the more comfortable alternative...

the cable-car or the mountain-rail.  We took an all around

ticket for 45€ which allows you to take every device to the

top and the valley. I personally expected it to be a lot higher.

It is actually not even 3000 meters high :( 

The roof of germany. 

Over there is Innsbruck(Austria)

Thats supposed to be the glacier. ???? Well I cant 

see almost no snow. 

We wanted to climb up to the top 

but have a beer first. After we finished the

beer, our waitress told us that we have to

hurry up otherwise we miss the last train.

Nice. Fail!!!!

The is the "leftover" of the glacier. Anyway it is a 

70 meter deep layer of ice. So still enough there.  

The whole group. 

Yeah the first time I did not pay attention to it. 

Than on the other side I asked my self. Hell it looks a lot different

here than there. Is it possible that this is austria actually? 

Well it is.  And it is allowed to smoke in the restaurants 

there. :)

Dunno what happend to my Russn Halbe. Weird Shit!

Last day exploring Munich once again.

We went to the Architecture Museum.

Which is a little bit boring cause the do not 

really expose architecture more art itself.

Anka was our tour-guide.

Geb. Asam Kirche.

Finally after a long week of walking and all in all  around 

20 hrs of train-rides we went to a bar close to the Munich 

main station. I made them try every kind of beer that

was worth trying. Schneider, Gutmann, Augustiner,

Tegernseeer, ..... Guess I never drank that much Weizen

beer before than in that week. 

We had a great time and I was really happy to meet all

of you again, or for the first time. See you again in 

Taiwan.