Thursday, September 26, 2013

Another Story

I can't begin to explain why it's been such bad luck with these post. I think it's the relaxed weather here or maybe it's something in the beer. Haha well my birthday has come and gone and I spent that day with some very awesome horse farmers in Germany. Here's my cake
Thanks to the opening of beer fest I cant show you any pictures of the family I was stayin with, because I had my camera lost on my drunk walk of shame back to my camp site. Well I can see this is getting out of hand so let's talk facts...

I left my campsite in oxford, England and began my 22 hr bus ride to Munich Germany. The bus ride wasn't all that bad after I found out where the bathroom.. Scratch that where the extremely small cabinet where they placed the toilet was at inside of the bus. I was able to freely talk with all the passengers and makin good company with every body I saw, being away from home put me in the gotta make friends mood. On this bus ride I got from England to France on La tunnel I think they call it haha but it's like a tunnel with a huge train that carries busses and cars under the ocean. That was cool. (Photos in my camera, which I don't know where that is) I arrived in Munich after that long trip wanted to get a good nights rest, so I practically ran as fast as I could to the nearest train out of the city. I don't know if it was the fact that everything on the buildings was a different language or that I could speak that language but I wasn't comfortable in Germany. I was quite freaked out. After some trouble I hit up a local train and headed for a farm on the country side right next to a city called Passau. My host met me at the station and I headed off to her place. Which is huge.
The day to day routine here was that we wake up for breakfast at 8:30 everyday. 
After that we head out to the stables and pick up all the shit from the 25 different horses in the stables. 
Then we feed them hay. All the walls you see even in the first house picture were repainted white by myself. After feeding and watering the horses it's kinda like break time or we work on our own project mine was painting. Then we have a hot lunch kinda like a dinner in the middle of the day. Each day was a nice surprise of a different German cuisine. Then I take another free time and we get back to cleaning and feeding the horses around 6pm. End up eating a cold dinner at 8:30. Although they said it was very German to have a cold dinner and hot lunch, me and Michael think it's just a farm thing. He is also a workawayer. That was what I did for two weeks. Then my birthday came around and we all celebrated with that cake. But that didn't mean we stopped working that day... Every day is a working day for a farmer. To kill some time I bought this book in the local town it's such a great book.
I recommend it to anybody looking for a good story. I also had time to read Robinson Crueso.. Which took me the same amount of time it took me to read Shantaram.. Even though Shantaram is close to 1000 pages. I was going for a 7 day record and succeeded. I am looking for good books to get into so please do suggest some titles for me.
Micheal and I headed out on the same day because I had overstayed my welcome haha I think I got on her nerves not knowing where I wanted to go or how long I would stay so she kicked me out after two weeks. I took the time to go with Micheal to passau and drink the local brew.
We ended up staying in a hostel over looking the whole city.. In what seemed to be an old castle.
Oh passau is know for three rivers that connect. What a cool place, the people love sausages here and beer so we had some good fun. 
After a night we both took the train into Munich and I came face to face with the city again. Although this time around it wasn't as scary. 
Once I got there I took my time to find a campspot (not a campsite mind you, a spot) for my tent and then I began to explore, I arrived one day before Oktoberfest so the crowds at the train where intense. But I would have to say I don't like these trains better than London's, they are slower and it took me a while to get the hang of the backwards system compared to London these trains reminded me of headphones that stay in your pocket after a couple minuets and they are all tangled up. 
Found these people playing some cool games.
Some people surf on the river!!! I think they made an artificial wave.. Since there's so much water it just continuously flows all day.
Beer day!!!
These halls are full of singing, chanting, pretzels, beer, laugher, and women. Every body is dressed to the German traditions. 
The count down till the beer comes on the first day is epic almost like New Years, the beer is serve at 12oclock after the Mayer taps off the first beer and the cannons go off! Met some British guys and joined in on the fun. We ended up playing cards and telling jokes for 3 hrs before the first beer was consumed. I had a local next to me tellin me that I shouldn't drink like it's a competion because these beers are sooo strong for the festival.
After two liters of beer I was making funny faces for my camera and laughing and cheering with the rest of the guys.
I have Better pictures on my camera but shortly after this photo was taken I sauntered off into a park and never saw my camera again. I couldn't tell you if I dropped it or it was stolen. 
But enough reminiscing after I found out I had to go back and take some proper photos for you all!! 
Old and young alike dress up 
The whole place is a lot to take in but just Imagin a carnival and then add 6-9 huge beer cafeterias scattered around and that's what Oktoberfest is.
Every beer hall is dressed up with horses standing out side and bands playing inside, you can hear people singing from where I was.
And for now this is what I've been up to. In a couple of days I'm going to be going to Amsterdam on a bus and make my way to Paris on a bike then I'm off to Italy in a plane for a new program I found out called au pair. As you know I left without much  cash so, this will be one of my many jobs over seas. It includes taking care of a kid, and you get room, board, and a couple bucks all while staying in the country of your choosing. Yesterday I had some plans to go straight to Italy but I think I'll enjoy a long bike ride through France, Belgium and the Netherlands. I'll be armed with a mad and a compas plus what ever bike I find in Amsterdam... I find my self singing On the road Again every time I embark on a new journey. I've also been keeping patches from each country I visit and putting them on my backpack. Well then 
Ciao 
Till next time.