Diary

Friday, 01 October, 2004
After an early flight and an early arrival in Munich we dropped off our bags at the hotel…
Saturday, 02 October, 2004
Saturday morning and it was an early start to get to the Oktoberfest early so that we could get a table…
Sunday, 03 October, 2004
Sunday dawned clear and sunny…
Monday, 04 October, 2004
After checking out of the hotel and dumping our bags in the lockers at Munich station we headed into the centre of town and to the Marienplatz…
Friday, 30 September, 2005
With a tear (crocodile) in my eyes I left work at 11 a.m. with queues starting to develop at all the service points to head off to the airport…
Saturday, 01 October, 2005
Oktoberfest Day meant an appalling 6:30 alarm call to make early breakfast and then a walk to the Oktoberfest site about 1 mile away…
Sunday, 02 October, 2005
With the others nursing hangovers (what a surprise on only 14 hours of drinking!)…
Monday, 03 October, 2005
An early start for the morning and off to the Hauptbahnhof to catch the train over the border into Salzburg in Austria…
Tuesday, 04 October, 2005
My friends had to catch the 7 a.m. flight back to Gatwick, so at something horrible AM they left the hostel…
Wednesday, 05 October, 2005
With more breakfast than was probably wise inside me I headed off to the Hauptbahnhof…
Thursday, 06 October, 2005
After another massive breakfast I checked out and headed out to the airport…
Wednesday, 15 April, 2009
Having landed and made it through the airport in record time, I arrived in the city centre and hopped onto a tram to the hotel…
Thursday, 16 April, 2009
An early start, out to the station and onto the train to Garmisch-Partenkirchen up in the Bavarian Alps…
Friday, 17 April, 2009
The weather forecast for Friday hadn’t been good…
Saturday, 18 April, 2009
Saturday, like Friday was supposed to be a bit miserable in the morning…
Sunday, 19 April, 2009
I had had great plans for going on another walking tour, or taking in one of the many other museums in the city which I had not yet seen…
Friday, 19 December, 2014
Last day in work before Christmas and it was either going to drag until lunch, or I was going to end up in a frantic rush…
Saturday, 20 December, 2014
A long lie-in and a large breakfast meant that by the time I finally left the hotel and started to make a move towards the city it was already long gone 11am…
Sunday, 21 December, 2014
Having not really done very much the previous day I decided I was going to hit the high-culture today…
Monday, 22 December, 2014
I had another massive breakfast and then headed out into Munich…
Tuesday, 23 December, 2014
Breakfast completed and checked out of the hotel I headed into town to deposit my luggage in the lockers at the Ostbahnhof…