We got up early and left the hotel on what will be a long day. First stop for the day was Friedricshaven which is about 2 hours out of Munch. Here we visit the Zeppelin airship museum and have a walk around the town. The town is set on lake Constanz which borders Switzerland and […]

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A quick shower then back to Oktoberfest it was chockers nearly all the halls were closed as full. We walked every street checking out some of the amazing rides got a half metre sausage for dinner and 2 lovely beers from the place we went last night. We did find another bar it was a […]

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Sort of woke up from a big night, and had breakfast and headed into town and went to the toy museum this was a “well spent” 3 euros. A crusty old nanna and some mangy teddies and other toys she must have saved from the tip all displayed in little rooms in this spiral tower […]

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A quick shower and on the train to Oktoberfest. The scale of it is hard to imagine its huge there are over half a million people (that’s 2 times Geelong) each day. The area is about a km square and full of some of the wildest and largest amusement rides. Some are Disney scale and […]

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Started off the day with a 5 k walk to the BMW museum. The museum is currently undergoing a huge redevelopment with a monstrous new complex a few months away from completion so they had set up a small exhibition over the road in some portable huts. There were only a few vehicles and bikes […]

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We got up early and had some breakfast in the hotel and then it was off the the Mercedes Benz Museum.. This museum is brand new and it was like nothing we had ever seen. The striking 8 floor glass and concrete architectural masterpiece housed the finest collection of any museum (of any kind) we […]

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fun fun fun on the autobahn Thousands of trucks doing 100ks on left lane majority of cars doing 130 the car speed limit in the middle lane and a selection of fancy German cars doing what ever on right some must be touching 180 or more. The French motorway was Peugeots and Renaults and expensive […]

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Another laugh was the security check as you drive into the airport. The guards check every to see if people have passports- they don’t look at them and then they look in the boot. They don’t open anything just look. Maybe they are looking for big red balls with fuses that say bomb- who knows? […]

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G’day folks, welcome to our holiday blog. We hope to update it every couple of days if we can get wi-fi so drop back again to see what we have been up-to. The trip started off delayed there was some problem with the plane and it had to be swapped from a Boeing to an […]

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