Trip to Europe: Rotterdam to Dover, to London, to Munich, to Innsbruck
Another long and weird day. Someone from my past is knocking on my door. He’s everything I hate about myself but he and I have a history so here we are again.
Sorry so cryptic, I’m making some changes – dunno if for better or worse. I’ll let you know soon. I always do.
But back to the trip:
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Skipped all the meetings and went to the New York Hotel in Rotterdam. There I wrote postcards and had a $6 glass of water and listened to someone saying, goodbye my almost lover as I wrote my friends and family.
I picked up the pretty postcard above and thought it was a bit sad I had no one to send it to.
Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.
I’ll be in Dover tomorrow.
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Arrived in Dover, England this morning where we left the ship. The guy that screwed up with the six hour trip to Bruges also screwed us for our Dover trip. We didn’t have to get up until 9AM but we woke at 4AM on his suggestion. Man!
At least I got to see the white cliffs at dawn. Went over London Stansted for an EasyJet flight to Munich.
Lemme just say that any airline with the word “Easy” in it is bound not to be. We ended up queuing for almost an hour.
Arrived in Munich that night where the Hotel Apollo said they lost our room but put us in Hotel Mirabell instead. Hmmmm…
Started drinking at 7PM at Oktoberfest where I met this bunch of people. Fun. I may have kissed a girl from Chicago and/or Australia – I don’t remember.
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Woke up at 8AM to start drinking. Yes, 8AM. That’s how they do it there. They don’t mess around. Here’s the town walking to get hammered at 7:45AM.
We met up with some US soldiers and then a whole bunch of different people. Called it a day at 3PM. It was when I shot this video.
When to the hotel, passed out. We went to the Augustiner Großgaststätten to eat dinner.
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Him: Wanna drink more or let our livers take a rest?
Me: Rest. Please.
We rented a BMW 1 (yes, they exist) and drove down to Neuschwanstein Castle and some other castles. There’re all over the damn place.
And man, those mountain roads are TWISTY! We drove through a %!#$% mountain for several minutes. Driving them in the dark was both terrifying and fun. Sorta like living in NYC.
We then decided to drive two hours to Innsbruck in Austria for dinner at the Elferhaus and had a cup of coffee at Cafe Kroell for an hour. On the way back, Mississippi, shes callin my name.
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Drove to Munich in the dark with only 35Km left of gas in the gas tank. It’s funny now. Wasn’t then.
Slept for three hours at the Mövenpick Hotel München – the room was absolutely gorgeous but totally not worth it because we were there for grand total of four hours. We should have slept at the airport. Oh well…
Woke up thinking another aerorplane, another sunny place (I’m lucky I know) but I wanna go home. We then made our way to the Munich airport to Belgium then the US.
So now I’m back.
Location: 8PM, driving in circles in LIC
Mood: tired
Music: see the words in italics above
