Thursday, September 10, 2009

Back in Munich!

So why am I back in Munich again? It's a good hub and my little brother has never been here. We were in Budapest all day yesterday. I finally got some good pictures of parliament without scaffolding on it. Check out out some pictures of it on google images. Do you think there's any building in the world more epic?

The day before we saw Cesky Krumlov, a town in the Czech Republic built on not one, not two, but three bends in the river. Unfortunately, the beat perspective of it is from the air, and one can't see it's dramatic turns well even from the surrounding hills. After that we took the train to Plzen. I went on the tour of the Pilsner Urquell brewery while Evan visited Prague. The brewery is amazing. They can bottle 60,000 half-liters of beer every hour. The cellars under the brewery used to age the beer in cool surroundings are over 9km long. The best part is why the brewery was opened. Apparenty in 1938 30 kegs of beer from the town were emptied on the steps of the town hall because they were "unfit to drink". Two men founded the brewery a year later as a massive effort of the whole city to restore he reputation of Plzen beer!

Today we'll visit the Deutsches Musuem here in Munich, which is the greatest science and tech museum in the world, with 13km of exhibit halls. Tonight will be an overnight train to Bled in Slovenia in the morning, then to Venice for the afternoon, followed by a night train back to Munich tomorrow night. After that we'll just be around Germany until I fly to Japan from Frankfurt next Saturday. Hope all is well with everyone!

-Jordan

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