april-september: live in munich. surf in the morning, lead two bike tours, drink beer all night, smoke approximately 50 cigarettes a day (we saw him smoke about 10 during the tour).
october-march: live in hawaii. teach surf lesson and give massages. drink lots of beer.
mike's bike tours plops you on a bike and we drove around the city in a group of about 18, stopping occasionally to learn about different parts of the city. our group was made up mostly of americans in our age range, but we made friends with some 20 year old british kids, too. the highlights of the tour: a drive through the english gardens, a park in munich that is four times the size of central park in new york city. it was enormous, well kept up, and beautiful, with streams and paths running through it. one part of the park is nudist, so of course frankie drove us through there. another part of the park is a place where people surf! it is illegal and looked very dangerous, but apparently the police don't enforce the law and there were about 15 people there with their surf boards and wet suits. the water rushes through a tunnel and hits some rocks in a way that creates (apparently) great surfing waves. they took turns surfing around (for anywhere from 5 seconds to a couple minutes) before they wiped out, and then the next person would jump in and go. really cool. the other highlight of the bike tour was our stop for lunch in a beer garden (in the middle of the english gardens) - the second largest beer garden in the world (it seats 6,500 people), called the chinese tower. jenny had bratwurst and i had a salad (yay for vegetarian food, even at a beer garden!) and we both had beers, of course. we hung out there with our group for about an hour, talking to our new british friends, before we got back on the bikes and finished the tour. note: i was significantly better at biking before i had two beers.
we're in a six person room at this hostel, and our roommates are two americans from texas, a portuguese guy, and a girl of unknown origin - we haven't talked to her much. we have befriended the two texans, though, and they were coincidentally on our bike tour, too! these are our first real hostel friends so far.
right now we are doing our typical late afternoon activities: lying down in the air conditioned part of our hostel, reading books or messing around on the computer, and waiting for 6pm, when happy hour starts at our hostel (beer for 1 euro are pretty awesome). eventually we'll make our way to dinner and maybe out for another beer or two. i know this sounds like our fair share of alcohol, but we also have been very good about drinking lots of water (we buy or refill a 1.5 liter bottle with water every morning and finish it by dinner time - that's been our goal, and it's working out well).
today was hot in munich - in the 80s - but it is supposed to cool down tonight and only get into the 70s tomorrow. we're getting very spoiled by the weather here - lots of blue skies and breezes and cool temperatures. it rained one day in salzburg, but we went to museums and stayed out of the rain. weather.com tells us that things aren't so good in the US, though, so i hope everyone in atlanta and beyond is staying out of the heat!
5 comments:
I've always wondered at what age a child tells his parents (and the world) about drinking beer and erratically riding bicycles through the nudist area of the public parks. Apparently it is 27 now, although for an earlier generation it seems to be more that 57. I am extremely jealous of all the good times.
Wait a minute John! Claire and I are 26, not 27! As her elder (by two months) I feel it is my duty to preserve her youthful status as a mid-twenty something for as long as possible. If she were 27, I would be 27, and I am just not ready for that right now.
Um, Dad, do you really not know how old we are? Guess my age - quick!
Texans are the best! :) And it's 100 degrees here, which is blissful. Exeter next week will have a high of 70. Brrrr!
25! Right?
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