Frankly I think Gab may have forced me to overdo it at Hofbrau, we drag ourselves out of Bed, pack up and get ready to hit the road (if not other things). Great start to the day was getting trapped straight out into peak hour traffic when the GPS instructions didn't match reality. The kids have come for a joy ride with me to collect the van from storage, happily for them the scene of me trying to reconfigure a GPS, maneuver a truck through peak hour traffic a...

Our final day in Munich and Bavaria turned on the sunshine big style. An unintended stroll through Gypsy town got the adrenaline pumping first thing in the morning, which made breakfast in a picturesque shady courtyard all the more relaxing.It took a bit but we eventually tracked down our hop-on-hop-off tour bus and set off to see it all from the top deck. First a stop at the enormous Schloss Nymphenburg, then BMW World where I resisted to urge to accessorise the...

We took a stroll down to Marienplatz for a lazy breakfast before I headed back to the most exciting part of the planned Munich activities, a brewery tour of Franziskaner! Unfortunately my tour guide lacked my enthusiasm, he stayed in bed to nurse his head cold, at least I'm pretty sure thats what the security guard was trying to convey with those gesticulations conjoining his nose and a mess in a hanky. Whatever, its holiday time and I'm in a city that se...

Delirium struck hard around 1am. Best intentions had us all plan to stay up for the night and sleep the day's flight away. Emerson was the only one to crash before our 3am pickup, the surreal result only further loosened our collective grip on civility - imagine the state of things if Emerson is closest thing to adult supervision that we could manage?I'd figured our 6am flight would mean we could avoid a days worth of schedule problems and get away on tim...

It's over :( The sun was shining, we'd arranged breakfast in the park with Minnie and her friends as our farewell breakfast to end our trip. We spent the rest of the day doing all the rides we all loved the most at Disneyland - Autopia for Max, Space Mountain for Gab and I, Dumbo for Emerson and Toy Story Midway Mayhem for all of us. We spent our last few hours in Toontown, a new land we hadn't been to before. If I could reset the clock to when I was 16 I'd ...