Hey All- Grab all of your leiderhosen, and your beer Stine's; welcome to Oktoberfest! I arrived yesterday in Munich after a 6 hour train right on a high speed train. I swear if they had checked my ticket any more times I would have screamed (just kidding- I got checked about 8 different times- it got kind of annoying). I made it to my hostel which is one block from Oktoberfest. The way I would describe the festival to you is a giant fair with bigger and scary...

Hey All- Today was a very long day. We made the giant journey from warsaw to berlin with only 2 45 minute truck stops- it was awful. We made it to eastern berlin where we got to see parts of the wall, that was pretty cool. (i tried to upload photos but this internet cafe does not have access- that <i can see anyways). We had a three course dinner in the hotel we are staying at, but it was not a nice break because the chicken was fried and we had that kind o...

Hi All- Right now we are in Warsaw for the day. Yesterday we visited the Auschwitz 1 and 2. That was so difficult. For number one there is a sign outside of the gates with barbwire fence that basically says work hard and u will be free. Which was ironic because it was not the case. I just could not believe number 2 is was soooo big and basically in ruins because number one was preserved and number 2 was not really. There was so many belongings of the peopl...

Hey All- I am so sorry that my blog posts have been so short- it is just that Internet is 1. difficult to find 2. expensive 3. we are really pretty structured on this tour so we don't have much time is every city/ place. So you will have to except my apologies. First off- I left off in Vienna where we had the rest of the morning to explore the city. I went to the Albertine museum where I saw the palace quarters plus the van goth exhbit- that was really nea...

Hey all- right now i am in vienna The hills are alive with the sound of music... it is so beautiful. Today we left prague and drove all the way here. Our tour manager Peter took us on a walking tour to give us great direction of the city. I went all over to the museums, the palace, and of course tried the local sweet stucructt (sp?) and a coffee. I was a chocolate dessert it was quite yummy. After seeing the sights we checked into our hotel which is outsid...