Once settled at the 4you Munchen Hostel, we went to another hostel to drink some German beers. Wow. German beer is amazing. They have to spin the bottle in order to get all the beer out at the bottom and it settles like guiness but is not as thick. Weisbier was amazing. Kind of like a Blue Moon taste but much thicker and heavier. I headed to bed early friday night because i had to wake up early on friday to head to the venue where DMB was playing to try and buy my ticket.
After a breakfast at the hostel which was toast with some home made jelly and making a sandwich for a snack, I went to Zenith to buy my ticket. A 20 minute metro ride led me to an old train repair warehouse built in 1918 where We would be seeing DMB that night. Little did they say on the phone I couldn´t buy tickets until 14:00 day of show. Shit. So I called this guy named Craig I met on Antsmarching.org that was in the US army in germany and had an extra ticket. I met him at the Central Station in munich and paid a little bit less than face value for my ticket, which was awesome.
After all this it was still only 10:3oam. We attempted to go on a tour of Munich, but found it a waste of time to listen to this chick blabber and we saw the same stuff in a fraction of the time on our own. We saw the famous chruch´s, royal residence, the Mac Store, and just all the stuff in my pictures on facebook! We then went to the Olympic Village from the summer games in 1972. It was cool to see but kind of snow covered, which was bit of a bummer. After that, we ended our day of tourism at the HAFBRAHAUS!
Hafbrahaus, for those of you who don´t know, is the culmination of beer drinking and oompah bands. It is long tables for 10 people or so all over with a band playing the best drinking music imaginable, women carrying around and selling GIANT homemade pretzels, men wearing liderhosen, lots of bockwurst, kraut, potatoes and other fresh german fare and waiters carrying out LITERS, yes liters (thats 1000ml or about 38oz) of fresh from the tap Hafbrau beer. The environment was quite the perfect place to pregame for dave. Much different than the dave days of summer, but a nice change of atmosphere!
People laughed at me when i wore a DMB shirt to Hafbrauhaus, best decision ever. When you mix lots of beer, lots of US natives in deutschland, and DMB you get a lot of people sitting around drinking heavily and discussing our origins and excitement to be there. We met a lot of people from the US military based in germany and took quite a few drinks with them and even met up with these 2 guys we met from ohio in the show. We met so many awesome people all because they knew we were americans and going to dave from my shirt!
Besides the camaraderie and drinking, the food was fantastic. I have never been a big fan of saurkraut but that´s because in the US it is actually sour. In germany, it is so sweet. It was deliciious. The Bockwurst and 2 other types of sausage we ate were also delicious. This one girl named kate is a vegan so she got a baked potato with hand whipped sour cream. it was sooo delicious. I´d say it was a great success.
After all of these escapades, we headed to the show a little early to get a good spot to stand because the show was GA. We ended up getting in the 5th row right in front of Steffan Lessard, the bass guitarrist, for those of you who don´t know. I won´t go through the whole show, but it was incredible. we were so close and saw some great songs, of which, my favorite was by far crush. After the show we went to get some food and headed home for the night.
Sunday morning was awful. I was woken up at 730am by 10 roomates all yelling German. Talk about pandamoniu. how people make sense of that gibberish is beyond me. Seeing as how falling back asleep was impossible, i woke up and used the extra time to see more of Munich. I started out by heading to Dachau Memorial Site where the nazi concentration camp was from 1933-1945. It took a metro and a bus to get there (about an hour each way in total) but was very interesting to see. You learn so much about the devestation that Hitler caused and everything about these camps but until you stand in the rooms where people were gassed and cremated, or starved to near death, it doesn´t really hit home. It was amazing to finally see something you hear about in history class your whole life. After wandering the city and doing a little bit of shopping for a few gifts, I headed to the airport which got me back to sevilla right around midnight. Another very exhausting yet fun filled weekend in yet another country!!
Next to come: London the weekend of March 5th-8th!!
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