Munich and a little bit of austira

Munich with the lads - was fun - driving on the opposite side of the road a challange.
The Park lands englsich garden etc. and public space in general around the city are excellent
Dachau was interesting and a must see but not an easy experience but I was glad I went - as the monument said in various languages Never Again should this be allowed to happen - although I fear we did in Bosnia and Rwanda..
Neuschwanstein Castle was a sight to see Disney-esque
Zugsplitz awesome but from the austrian side quite pricy
Eibsee lovely, nice lake and mountains, the lake was lovely to swim in but the stones were hard on my feet.
Garmisch very picturesque and I loved it
Allianz Arena - new and cool but not as architecturally splendid as the Olympic stadium and park. Again the public transport system is excellent as in all germany.
Keinstein - Eagles Nest was excellent moral quandry of its associations etc.
Koingsee was also lovely quite touristy and left us a race to get home but just made it


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Val Torens, France 2008, Skiing.

Well another a la carte skiing adventure to France, Ryanair to Grenoble and a hired bus to Val Torens, which as a high altitude resort had quite good snow conditions considering there was a few weeks without snow. The Town was very artificial nowt organic to humor you had you had a day off skiing. Food was grand, although I had very bad experience with beef so rare it was just blood just oozed out of it.
Skiing was fine, even if i preferred last year for variety and testing runs. Also the lifts were very busy not helped by a strike in a neighboring trois vallées resort. Overall there was a good variety of runs.
The runs in the Orelle Valley were my favourite, kinda empty and long and manageable runs from high mountains. Again I found the French very helpful especially on the couple of spills I had Cava/Daccord was uttered and helped up on to the skis, on a few occasions.
Also had the most comfortable boots ever no problems at all, the skis coulda done with some sharpening though but easy to control the only injury was to my shoulder on a bad fall but nothing to write home about;)
The friday was interesting since there was some snow, freezing fog and zero visibility for most of the day. Again when you weren't concentrating on the view and just on your movement and turning technique your skiing was better.
A few good nights out being led astray by a mad devon blacksmith was a good laugh, think I talked to females from most of the counties of the european union...