September 30, 2004

• Back from vacation but been too busy to update.

  
  

  My friend from college came to visit last week and we hung around Holland for a few days.  Did some touristy things in Amsterdam and Utrecht.  Towards the middle of the week, we made our way over to Germany.  We spent about 5 hours in Koblenz; a small city where the Moselle and Rhine river meets and a place to start a visit to the wine valleys.  We didn't have much time to get to any vineyards but we did some wine shopping. 

  
  

  After that, we hopped on a train to Munich.  We did some sight-seeing and visited some of the more famous beer halls.  After a couple of liters of beers from the beer halls, we found our way to Oktoberfest.  It was a mad house.  The beer tents were jammed with people and finding a place to sit was next to impossible.  A couple more liters of beers there and we were complete. 

  
  

  Overall, I found Germany to be very attractive.  A lot of buildings, churches, and castles had splashes of color on them.  I'm definitely not done visiting that country. 

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