brodie mcculloch » Munich http://www.brodiemcculloch.com life stream Wed, 05 May 2010 12:27:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Day out in Munich…..organising for the Danube ride http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/cycle-europe-08/day-out-in-munich%e2%80%a6organising-for-the-danube-ride/ http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/cycle-europe-08/day-out-in-munich%e2%80%a6organising-for-the-danube-ride/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:13:50 +0000 Brodie McCulloch http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/?p=210 On our one day we had in Munich we had what at the time seemed like a lot to do. When in fact it was only three things.

1) buy a tent
2) find a map of the Danube
3) organise trains to Passau (where we were starting the ride down the Danube through Austria and into Bratislava).

We rode from the tent into the city and looked around for a bit, the train was easy, the other two took some time. Lucky for us we went to the city information centre in the middle of town and they showed us where a bike shop was (for a map) and where we should be able to get a tent. Things were looking good.

The Danube

The Danube

Well we found the tent place, it was sort of a mountain design outdoors type store and had prices to match. Ryan wanted a thomas the tank engine tent but unfortunately no one in Germany knew of Kmart or thomas the tank engine so that was out. We did end up buying a proper tent because we needed it for the ride down the Danube and EXIT festival in Serbia, so we figured it would be a good investment, also we bought cooking stuff because we wanted to cook the whole way to save some cash.

We then rode onto the bike shop which was not as much help, they did have a thick book on cycling the Danube but it was in German, not so good. So after another look around we could not find anything and decided that we would just wing it when we get to Passau, as that is where a bulk of people ride from.

That night we went back to the tent, interneted it up and had some of their hippy food.

]]> http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/cycle-europe-08/day-out-in-munich%e2%80%a6organising-for-the-danube-ride/feed/ 0 The Tent in Munich http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/cycle-europe-08/the-tent-in-munich/ http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/cycle-europe-08/the-tent-in-munich/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:12:37 +0000 Brodie McCulloch http://www.brodiemcculloch.com/?p=207 Once we pulled into Munich train station we needed to get to our accommodation which was called The Tent, it was a little bit out of the Munich city center but was easily accessible by bike. This was promoted as ultra (ok I don’t think they used ultra) cheep accommodation and was a 100 bed tent (marque) in the middle of what looked like a nature reserve. It was 11 euro each per night, which was a nice amount.

After locking up our bikes we had food and found out that the internet was free. Booyah. Much facebooking to be done.

We went to bed quite early because we had been travelling all day and the pain of having to reorganise trains mid trip was hard work.

Day out in Munich…..organising for the Danube ride

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