ok i know its a big leap from lake konstanz to wien but we are here.....#
from the south side of konstanz we stayed at my mothers friends house, lovely lady but shereally did have the same tastes as my mum which was quite scary but thought none the less, after walking the dog and alot of ice cream by the lake we journeyed on across the lake to the other side and hopefully a hostel but to no avail as it was fullly booked, oh well camp site it was.
from there we started to head up north towards tubingen and the promise of a place to stay and a good night life well a party was peomised but oh well.after suprising clara by arriving before 12 in the morning and getting her out of bed we eventually had the grand tour of tubingen, if u planning of making a day of it i suggest walking very slowly and going in all the shops as it took us a grand total of 10 minutes to see nearly all of the sites around.that night was good however, 1 euro for tequilla???how can it go wrong???apparently so as claras promise of a night bus was unforfilled and we walked back to her house at about 3 in the morning but obviously the next day we wouldnt have been up to much cycling so we stayed another night and lounged about by the open air swimming complex nearby that was absolutely packed full of people.........u can fill in the blanks........but after swimming and sunbathing and a bit of one knee two knee with the locals we ended up with another frisbee and a beach ball all courtesy of the friendly girl behind the counter and me asking very nicely.
from there we continued on our journey(ok i may not sound alot on here but at this point from konstanz to munich we covered over 300 miles...in about 5 days riding.) and eventually hit munich after a late night meeting the german school group who were all alot older than us but still very socialble teaching them all new and very useful phrases that u wont normally learn in an english class abroad...(you all know what i mean same thing u use the french dictionary for in school when u didnt want to do the work).upon arriving in munich we were given about 4 sets of directions all from different locals as to the whereabouts of this hostel all going in the general right direction but none actually getting us there and it was only through u going into a odd driveway that we stumbled upon it.the first night rained so not much to say there but the next day we decided that we should do a tour of munich and what better that a cycled tour as its famous for being flat its not too bad we think eh???introducing the california crusiers....courtesy of mikes bikes tours also avaliable in amsterdam(we think we might try it)now there bikes are nothing like the bikes that we are used to the handle bars look like so kind of cup and the castration bar really is that bad....the tour itself wasnt that bad, 4 miles in 4 hours now how hard is that but still we managed to find people lagging behind in our group.now im not one to moan but talk about americanised i mean it was informative and all but if u are looking for a real in depth tour go for something else but if u want to go jump in a fast flowing river over so jagged rocks under a bridge then go to the second largest beer garden in the world and have a couple of litres of wiessbier then i reccommend this tour for you so after having a couple and feeling a bit tipsy i started to concentrate on the cycling instead of the tour, this would be the part with all the roads on it wouldnt it and the very vague conversation i was having with the american girl i had met didnt really register as i was just aiming to not fall off my bike and hurt or kill myself.dont drink and ride its not a good idea......anyways getting back to the shop i quickly nipped in the hofbrauhaus to use the loo then returned to find that our night plans had already been arranged for us by those nice kind people as just down the road we could get another free beer for going on thee tour and then that night they do a pub crawl, great idea so back to the hostel, sleep, shower, eat, change in that order and still a bit whoosy go back to the bar and begin again.now from then on the night gets less and less clear but our host took us to some places that i wouldnt never have found by myself in a million years, well done to him.one of which did remind me of the ferryboat however strange but true.....at some point after walking through the hofbrauhaus we met the two american sisters from our tour who decided to join us on our crawl and later in some other random bar we gathered a few other girls to come with us but i cant quite remember how i just remember introducing myself walking along the street after realised that they were there with us.twas a good night though we ended up in a club and i started talking to andrea who was a lovely girl that hopefully we will meet again soon when we get to prague but before i could get another drink a rathzer unsober shane approaches me and says we got to go im being thrown out, great who has he hit whats happened?it was only later i realised he had been throwing up in the toilet and got caught by the bouncer who removed him forthwith.i realised how ill he was when we got into a taxi and as i was trying to explain where our hostel was to this guy shane opened the door and started to reinact his earlier show, the kind taxi driver just started moving slowly along the street making a nice line for other to follow later im sure.after reaching the hostel and finally getting in we collapsed on the beds and went right off after getting him the bin in case he needed it again, and he did.great.next day i left him in bed a cycled around the town and checked out some of the sites that the tour hadnt included whilst he eventually got up and walked to the olyimpic stadium for a look around.
leaving munich a little light in pocket we travelled up the isar river towards the donau to star what has now become the newest addition to our journey....budapest.
in the last few days the weather has been brilliant so cloacking up nearly 400 miles in 5 days riding isnt too bad for us hence why we are already in wien.staying just outside as everywhere is packed inside....u wanna know why???the biggest street party in austria is on this weeked and we are smack bang in the middle of it.....who hooo party on.
ttfn when im sober again lols
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