Gills adventures

Wow, the frequency of my recent posts is alarming! Even to me!! But I want to keep this blog updated while stuff is still fresh in my mind.
So Hauptbanhof........ it mean train station, or the place shannon and me have been spending a lot of time in the past couple days. We came to Munich on friday and checked into a middle of the road hostel. 40 bed mixed dorm room for 19 euros a night, met some cool people, some not so cool ones, you know how that goes! Anyways we have spent 3 nights there and are sleeping there again tonight, so it feels a bit like a home now. On saturday morning we went to Dachau concentration camp. What a place! To actually see the place and walk where the prisoners walked and walk through the crematorium building was quite a experience. We ended up spending 4.5 hours there, so much to see and read and learn. Very sad. Quite unbelievable what the prisoners had to go through.
Later that day we stumbled upon a summer festival at the Olympic park complete with rides and carnival food, and a live band, and beer gardens with the servers in traditional costumes - ledrhison I think its called. Funny. We made our way to the Olympic Village where the 1972 Olympic massacre happened. I took a course in university and we spent a lot of time learning about it, so it was great to see the park with my own eyes.
The next day we went to Berteshgarten (sp?) which was a three hour train ride one way to go to the top of a mountain in an elevator shaft to see Hitlers fortress which was a gift to him on his 50th birthday from the SS. It was pretty cool and a beautiful day, we could see the whole mountain range. But my time is being cut short again because of the expensive internet. Till next time......