Onto the train again today and this time for a longer journey. About 7 hours worth of travel time from Munich to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, not including a train swap and the usual muck around time in the stations. Arriving in Amsterdam we hadn't made it 100m when we were met with our first sniff of whoopee weed (it's legal here), passing two guys sharing a joint on the train platform! We then jumped in a cab only for the cabbie to start swearing when we tol...

Today we had grand plans of hiring a Porsche 911 Carrera and driving on the autobahn (no speed limits) to Neuschwanstein Castle. No seriously, we did. But of course the 911 wasn't available, so we settled for a Ford Focus instead… which turned out to be fortuitous because just like the other two times we've had vehicles, once we hit the road it started snowing. So with the visibility down to a few hundred meters we couldn't even stretch the legs of the Focus le...

Saint Paddy's Day in Munich - not bad! Found some info about a march and after party, so decided to go in and check it out. We missed the parade, but the after party was cranking by the time we made it in at lunch time. Troy started taste testing the local poison with lunch, but it was going to be a looong day if they were all poured into 1 litre steins! We made our way around a few cafes / bars and when we'd eventually had enough of the cold and the drunk Irishm...