Today started off early, around 6am. We boarded to coach to drive to Munich, making a somber stop at the Mauthausen concentration camp. We walked through the barracks, the crematorium, and the burial sites of the prisoners of this camp. We watched a movie on the coach of the specific historical events that took place in the area we had just walked through. Words can’t really describe the feeling you get when walking through a place like this, but all of us were speechless for most of the morning. Conversation picked up once we stopped for lunch in Austria’s lake district, surrounded by the beautiful view of the mountains by the water.
Ein Prosit, Ein Prosit, der Gemutlichkeit! These are the lyrics to our German drinking song we learned for our night in Munich. After dropping our bags off at the hotel, we headed to town where Dangerous gave us another short walking tour during which he pointed out the Marienplatz and the Glockenspiel. Although it was interesting, we were all excited to get to the Hofbrauhaus beer hall. After all, we had to leave Munich in the morning! We had so much fun at the beer hall. We enjoyed glasses of beer, served by the liter, along with crispy pork knuckle and dumplings for dinner. We had a fantastic time with our awesome group, swinging our glasses from side to side singing our drinking song.
Hey, did you get to blow snuff up your nose like at Gastovs? Or is that just the Minnesota version of german beer hall? Your version sounds way more fun.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking you will need a serious detox when this trip is over.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine how brutal it was to get a glimpse at a concentration camp. That memory will stick with you forever.
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