Tuesday 17 May 2011

Germany travels, Part 4#

After our strange four stop eight hour train through the cold dark German country side we arrived in Freiburg Germany. It was about 7am and cold very cold and I had not slep for the better part of the last two days. We grabbed a taxi at the train station to our hostel which just had opened when we arrived. We were able to check in a store our bags in a storage room. Not to sound mean or but the hostel was on the stranger side of "arts'ee." For examble in one of the bathrooms there was a gap in the wall and the walls of the gap were painted with strange things as I can best discribe them, there was also a chair in the shelf of the gap that I thought was placed there for storage, but when I tryed to move it it was nailed to the floor. It was not bad, I just would have liked to side it the chair is all.
The city was really cool, but there wasnt much to do. There was a mountian on one side of the city. Ok it wasnt reallly a mountain, it was a hill with trees on it which made it look taller then it was. On one side of the hill there was a vineyard at the top of that vineyard there was a tourist platform walking path and wall. When me and my fellow travelers went to the top of this hill we went on the walk and on this platform. We sat of the wall and one of the girls dropped her 120 American dollar sunglasses down the 15 foot stone wall into the vineyard below. So we sent her to go get her sunglasses expecting her to go about 40 yards down the wall where there was a break in the fence and it leveled out to ground level. After about 20 minutes of watch above where she had dropped her glasses, I desided that I would go find her/ go get the glasses. I go the 40 yards to the fence, go through it just to see her climbing through the thorn bushes on the lower side of the hill. She had goin almost to the bottom of the hill about 85 feet away and climbed the 70 degree slope through the thorns instead of going through the fence. What ever, after that we continued up the hill to the next platform only about another 60 yards bup the hill, not even half way up. That is were the girls stopped and pulled the "oh Schuy, its so sunny and nice out, why cant we just sit here for a little while?" After traveling with them for about a couple of weeks now I had reallized that  this is code for we're tired and even though it has been sunny back in Scotland for weeks before we had left we want to slepp out side in the sun and burn all of our day light. So there for I left the girls and went up the hill by my self. I was able to get all the way to the top up the three story tower and all the way back down to the place where I had left the girls, only to find them 30 yards away saying that they had been looking for me for the last 20 minutes. Even though I had only been goin for about 25 minutes and they looked well rested.
There wasnt much else in the town its self. However there was a brewery and being a manly male I was very wanting to go to the brewery for a tour/ drinking beer. But as we were walking to the frront gate along side the build was the Coke brand name. So when we got to the front gate they would not let us take a tour and told us to go take a hike. To which I replied we were just on a hike and perhaps they sould go on one to relax those amazing people skills that they were showing. What ever it wasnt that good of a beer anyways, but I geuss thats what happens when there is so much coke around, zing.
The city streets were pretty cool though there was water canals along most of the roads. The canals if anything made life more interesting, one minute your walking down the street not paying attention, next your in a water park.









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