Recap, PT. 2

SPRING BREAK 2010! I wanted to make it worth my while!!! I wanted it to be a spring break to always remember! I wanted to go to as many new countries I could possibly go. When I say “new” I mean new in terms of “new” for me, countries that I had not been to. In 2007 I went to Italy, France and England so I for sure did not want to go there, and almost all the other students were going to go to those countries. I'm so glad when I heard that Doug was going to Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria! I literally shrieked “I want to go! Let me go with you please!!” Let's see we went to Munich, Prague and Vienna. I left on a Thursday to Munich on my own because it was way more cheaper to do so. Doug was to arrive on Friday and we were supposed to meet up. When I arrived to Munich I had to take a shuttle to the city center to get to my hostel. OMG, I had the hardest time finding the hostel and it was really embarrassing walking around with luggage! I had given up and was walking to where all these taxis were but then I saw a shop that said “Munich Information” and I decided to go in and ask for help to where my hostel was. The hostel was literally across that street and I was 2 minutes away from it!!! I felt so dumb!!!! I got to my hostel and it seriously was like a full blown hotel with like 10 stories!!!!! When I got to my room I changed clothes into more casual stuff and went to go look for lunch. I bet you can't guess what I had for lunch...KEBAB!!!!!! I swear there are so many Turks in Germany!!! Everywhere I looked I saw them and a Kebab restaurant!!! Turks are like the Mexicans in the West Coast!!! Kebab is fast food!! I love it!!! I went back to my room and met this girl from Argentina. We then decided to roam around in Marienplatz and see the old church. It was unbelievable!!! Then for dinner I had the best sausage, it was called a currywurst. It was smothered in curry along with the fries and it discovered my love for curry! Doug was supposed to arrive on Friday and we were hoping that our phones would be able to work, but stupid HAPPY MOVIL is a piece of SHIT. They said if our accounts had more than 30 euros they would be able to work in another country, WELL THEY DIDN'T!!!! I'm so glad I had given him my hostel information and had told him that meeting at my hostel at 1 in the afternoon would be perfect! It was unbelievable because he literally walked in the lobby at that time!!!! Those following days in Munich were great, we had great food and visited nice museums. The Hofbrau House was the coolest place, I had so much German beer!! It was so nice seeing that environment and realizing that it was a place where people have hung out for such a long time! Even Hitler spent time there!! I loved seeing the men in their German outfits and hearing German music played live!!! I had the best pretzels I've ever had there!! I will definitely go there if I ever go back to Munich!! I also went to the Dachau concentration camp which was so deep and intense. I never imagined that I was going to ever visit a Nazi camp! It was definitely an experience, a very solemn one at that. Through out the whole day I was just feeling down; it really weighed me down.
Prague was such a nice town. It is rumored to be the nicest city in Europe. It really was an incredible place to visit. I picked the best hostel because it was situated in the Old town. I was really nervous to get to my hostel because I was supposed to walk there by myself. But, it was so easy getting there it literally took me like 10 minutes of less!!! I was so glad that I had gone on google maps and given myself directions with streets. I saw pictures of the streets and wrote down certain establishments that I would have to turn left or right at. That was the best decision I made because I saw every single store and I would have a little victory dance when I saw the store in person like on the picture!!! My hostel was really close to the Old Plaza where the Astronomical clock was and that was really cool!! I met up with Doug and we went all over the place, we went to bridge and up to the palace and castle. There were a bunch of Italians everywhere like literally every Italian left Italy and landed in Prague!!! Anyways, we found the best restaurant ever!!! Thanks to Doug's book, we discovered the greatness of Kolkovna!!!!!! It was so good and so unbelievably inexpensive!!!! I had so much food, soup a dish and a desert and drink for less than 20 dollars!!! I would have never gotten that in Spain!!! The quality of the food was amazing!! Plus, uff, the waiters were sexy!!!! The best was asking the waiter for some ranch to which he gave the funniest look, like “what the hell is ranch?!” haha but I pointed to the container and he got it haha I felt so silly! We visited a lot of synagogues including the oldest in all of Europe and the nicest the Jerusalem synagogue! The Charles Bridge is so beautiful, I wish I could have seen it and night and in the summer! I really enjoyed Prague and I'm definitely going to go back!
Vienna, Vienna, Vienna! I stayed with my friend Verena at her flat. I slept on the comfiest couch and she actually bought me breakfast for the duration of my stay and gave me dinner! I didn't expect her to be so hospitable! She bought me Nutella, which she had remembered how obsessed I was with it 3 years ago on our trip. So much happened in Vienna, good and bad!!!! It started off badly to be honest!!! I got pickpocketed!!!!!! NO!!!!!!! IT was the suckiest feeling and i couldn't stop thinking about it!!!! I didn't lose that much it was just the fact that it happened to me was what i was upset about!!! I tried to forget about it and i kinda did. Vienna was my favorite city of them all! It was so beautiful, both palaces were incredible and all of the RING was spectacular!!! My favorite was the Danube River!! It IS as blue as everyone says!!! I'm so glad that I dragged Doug with me to see it because he wasn't planning on it!!! Haha i jumped on these trampolines set up over the river, they were the shit!! I'm so glad i did them!!! Vienna, i love you!!! PS the best drink is the Gussler RADLER!!!!!