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Monday, February 07, 2005
Contiki 3
Rubbing the sleep out of ones eyes and realising that you are so sick and wish you didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn to continue another hellish day on the road with your lungs in pain from so much coughing.
Managed to make it to another breakfast and decided to have a bowl of cereal, although when I tasted it I nearly hurled as this was FULL FULL cream milk you were using in your cereal. Abstaining and going back to the stale bread with ham and cheese is always a good resort.
So today we were on the road to Munich, we were to hang in St Goar this morning and see where and how they made Stein's (alas, I didn't make it and wasn't really bothered). I met up with Hilly who was in the same wavelength and we decided to just wander around the small town. When the rest of the bus finally got to the tourist shop and bough stein's we both decided to go in and look at them. Overwhelmed with cuckoo clocks and stein's I noticed people on a frenzy to buy buy buy! Kirt managed to get himself a limited stein with a piece of the Berlin wall on it..
It was a brisk morning and we all stood around the bus looking at the Rhine roll on by, having a friendly laugh and getting to know each other a little better, taking happy snaps and then doing something silly.
It was quite a long bus ride to Munich of what I can remember and we noticed one guy, Ken, who was a lawyer back home in Sydney and decided it was time to take a holiday after 6 years of nonstop work, found out later he was also going through a divorce. Ken like taking movies and everytime we saw him he was making a movie, I really don't know how much memory he had but it was ALOT! We nicknamed him Kodak Kenny after a hour long history talk from Gerry about Germany, Berlin Wall, Cold Wall and the New Germany, highly impressive talk and had me rivetted even though I knew a lot of it personally I still came out with knowing a little bit more. Kenny filmed the entire talk, and every other talk Gerry made.
Lorna and I split up from Hilly and Brooke and walked down amongst the pine trees to the end of the housing, 90% all knocked down after the wall and gravel pits left in its presence.
Ahhh everyone intoxicated on the bus and 'It's getting hot in here' is on the music box, so people decide its time to take over clothing listening to the song.... yes I was one as well!
So you think that this would be enough for anyone... who comes up with the idea by saying - 'Gerry is there another pub open?' when we get back to the hotel. Gerry points us down the road and we are at pub with some 40+ germans. I'm standing at the bar with a spanish guy rubbing my arm up and down and it only took me 10 minutes to figure out he was gay and I was saying 'Cei Cei!' probably saying to him 'Yes I like men and love stroking hairy chests' Alas we continued to get more drunk and I was dancing with some other contiki people in the back room to some out of date juke box with really bad music. Lorna managed to dress herself in the latest fashion and was wearing the hat of shame (I think Hilly had it for the day).
We arrive back at our hotel rooms to have me attached myself to Lorna and Brooke and find myself back in their rooms drunk and laughing.
I did manage to wake up in my own bed the next morning with an absolute headache and the need to drink half the Warragamba dam! Eyes were red, mouth was dry, cough and phelgm were constant and my head had someone playing the pipe organ in it with 'Oh Come all ye faithful'
A morning in Munich again and then we are off to Austria! I have the upmost faith I will be even more pissed tonight as well!
Managed to make it to another breakfast and decided to have a bowl of cereal, although when I tasted it I nearly hurled as this was FULL FULL cream milk you were using in your cereal. Abstaining and going back to the stale bread with ham and cheese is always a good resort.
So today we were on the road to Munich, we were to hang in St Goar this morning and see where and how they made Stein's (alas, I didn't make it and wasn't really bothered). I met up with Hilly who was in the same wavelength and we decided to just wander around the small town. When the rest of the bus finally got to the tourist shop and bough stein's we both decided to go in and look at them. Overwhelmed with cuckoo clocks and stein's I noticed people on a frenzy to buy buy buy! Kirt managed to get himself a limited stein with a piece of the Berlin wall on it..
It was a brisk morning and we all stood around the bus looking at the Rhine roll on by, having a friendly laugh and getting to know each other a little better, taking happy snaps and then doing something silly.
It was quite a long bus ride to Munich of what I can remember and we noticed one guy, Ken, who was a lawyer back home in Sydney and decided it was time to take a holiday after 6 years of nonstop work, found out later he was also going through a divorce. Ken like taking movies and everytime we saw him he was making a movie, I really don't know how much memory he had but it was ALOT! We nicknamed him Kodak Kenny after a hour long history talk from Gerry about Germany, Berlin Wall, Cold Wall and the New Germany, highly impressive talk and had me rivetted even though I knew a lot of it personally I still came out with knowing a little bit more. Kenny filmed the entire talk, and every other talk Gerry made.
Munich Square
Arriving in Munch was around 3pm and I knew that there was the beer hall that night (where people would get pissed) and there wasn't much interest in being in Munich doing the whole tourist thing, I than looked at the map and saw Dacou. Knowing Dacou in World War 2 was a concentration camp for Jews & Catholics and took it upon myself to venture out that way. Hilly was very interested and Lorna and Brooke decided to tag along for it as well. We got directions off Malks who had been in Munich a week earlier and said that it was a dreary place that brought him to tears. So we left on that whim, onto the train to Dacou - all four of us having a good laugh at things preceding and what lays ahead.
Entrance into Dacou
Arrving in Dacou 45 minutes later we jumped into a taxi and went straight out to the camp. It was about 4:30pm by then and I knew the place closed at 5pm. Walking into the camp you have this cold chill that does go up your spine and I think the four of us stopping laughing and smiling and just was at awe at the barbed wire and trenches still in place.
Parade Ground
We missed the museum as we did not have enough time (added to do again one day in the future) so we trunched around the gravel parade ground and into one of the huts for prisoners, the coffin beds and dust and dry damp smell made you think what it was like and looking out into the parade ground gave you a whole understanding of dread.
Inside Block A
Lorna and I split up from Hilly and Brooke and walked down amongst the pine trees to the end of the housing, 90% all knocked down after the wall and gravel pits left in its presence.
The Walkway
Memorials were erected here at the end of the camp to Jews, Catholics and the deaths of so many. I said to Lorna about then at the place was 'Beautifully eerie.' It made you look at the precision of how the camp was made in a military way although the beauty of the trees and grass still making it seem like a holiday camp (well Holiday's camps with barb wire).
By then I had seen the road to the crematorium, it was closed when we got there and I could only see down the muddy path to it... it looked scary enough.
By then I had seen the road to the crematorium, it was closed when we got there and I could only see down the muddy path to it... it looked scary enough.
Would you believe there is a No-Smoking sign on the gate
By that time I found the sign I was looking for which was erected on all of the Nazi's concentration camps.
Work will set you free
Catching the train back to Munich we decided that we all felt educated by the experience and it was a place we would like to revisit to understand more about.
HOFBRAUHAUS - Where men are turned to snivelling drunken waste, where women are turned from shy to downright savage beasts! Finding the place we got a little lost, and thanks to a local who decided to escort us there we found it in good haste - only to find everyone half toasted by the time we did get there! 1 Litre steins!! They are heavy when they are empty and when I see one of the waitresses carrying 6 of them towards you with forearms the size of a heavy-weight boxer you understand how much drinking you are going to get yourself in for that night.
I think everyone came out of their shells and to have people dance and do silly stuff while they are drunk is even funny. After about 3 steins I had my dancing shoes on with Malks, where we both decided to jig like ametuer german folk dancers, slapping each others feet and making downright idiots of ourselves.
With one of the hobbits! (Sascha)
4 steins and things were getting a little hazy, I was taking pictures of people and laughing so much I think it was emotional! When you say Prolstch! (ie. cheers) and slam your mug into another you around suppose to have some of your beer go into theirs, unfortunately for Brooke she did it so hard against Gerry's (she wound up for it) that it smashed and beer went everywhere. Funny!
Brooke's damage
Nick and Gerry doing the Chicken dance
Onto my fifth, the chicken dance was funny and my legs were about jelly. I look over and it's about time to leave and David (South African who is trying to improve his english on the trip) goes Prolstch! downs some of the ale and then manages to puke up next to him. TAXI! You have never seen people leave so fast to get to a bus... I'm here trying to make sense and calm down the waitress and manager who was demanding money - I hand her 5 euro's and then they are still complaining so I say 'David you drunken bastard, they want money from you.' I think he was so embarrased by now that he handed over 10 euros and we scampered off, I was half way down my fifth when I could finish it and left it on a the seat on the exit door and got lost trying to find the bus with some others! We saw it driving off and manage to flag it down with a hail of 'No STOP STOP FUCK NO!!'Ahhh everyone intoxicated on the bus and 'It's getting hot in here' is on the music box, so people decide its time to take over clothing listening to the song.... yes I was one as well!
So you think that this would be enough for anyone... who comes up with the idea by saying - 'Gerry is there another pub open?' when we get back to the hotel. Gerry points us down the road and we are at pub with some 40+ germans. I'm standing at the bar with a spanish guy rubbing my arm up and down and it only took me 10 minutes to figure out he was gay and I was saying 'Cei Cei!' probably saying to him 'Yes I like men and love stroking hairy chests' Alas we continued to get more drunk and I was dancing with some other contiki people in the back room to some out of date juke box with really bad music. Lorna managed to dress herself in the latest fashion and was wearing the hat of shame (I think Hilly had it for the day).
Missy (Katelyn), Brooke, Lorna & Jane shaking their booty in Munich!
We arrive back at our hotel rooms to have me attached myself to Lorna and Brooke and find myself back in their rooms drunk and laughing.
I did manage to wake up in my own bed the next morning with an absolute headache and the need to drink half the Warragamba dam! Eyes were red, mouth was dry, cough and phelgm were constant and my head had someone playing the pipe organ in it with 'Oh Come all ye faithful'
A morning in Munich again and then we are off to Austria! I have the upmost faith I will be even more pissed tonight as well!
