hop, step and a jump to Bulgaria

Since I last wrote I spent about 24 hours in Munich, where I didn't really meet any Germans. I was staying at a hostel which had mostly Americans and one other Canadian, and even from the airport I travelled with a Norwegian, a Swede and a Greek by subway to the hauptbahnhof. After finding the hostel I wandered around alone for a few hours, seeing the Marienplatz and had some dinner (I am really loving the deep-fried Camenbert, sooo good) then went back to the hostel to go out to a beer garden with my new found North American friends, Andrew from Toronto, Stephen from Seattle, Pat from Alaska, and two New Yorkers who I don't remember their names. The beer garden we went to was probably all tourists since everything was stereotypically Bavarian, the women in traditional dress, litre mugs of beer and a German band playing (while the Asian tourists were crowded around them singing and dancing along). Then we went to another beer garden where we had some cake, I had a bite of Andrew's Black Forest cake, he got that last slice. It was pretty good but I always though Black Forest cake was more chocolatey and darker, this one had a cream icing and like chocolate cake.

The next day I walked to the big park (don't remember the name) in the middle of the city with the two New Yorkers. There was some nudity (an old man getting some sun) and even surfing. At one of the bridges there is a strong flow of water where people go surfing. Was pretty cool to see.

Then in the afternoon I took a train to Vienna. I have been staying with Florian who has showed me around to most of the sites in town. The first night we went to the cityhall where they have many stands with food from all around the world (India, Croatia, Spain, Hawaii, Japan...) was really neat. And there were also bign screens showing ballet, with classical music playing in the background. Then yesterday we walked around the city centre, saw the opera house (they love opera here), the royal palaces, th big cathedral and went to a museum with the exhibition "Why Pictures Now". It had some really interesting, some beautiful some grotesque photos and video. We got some icecream at an Ice Cafe and in the evening had some dinner at a Turkish restaurant (all across Europe it seems all everyone eats are Kebabs. Kebab house's are as common as Tim Hortons in Canada). The food was really good, and like most European (at least central/eastern European) cuisine it was mostly meat.

Today I will be heading to Budapest and then tomorrow head on a plane to Sofia, Bulgaria. I am really looking forward to seeing Tisho, Becca and Anna Vala again and relaxing on the beaches of the Black Sea. For most of our time there we are staying in this town Nessebar, which is suppose to be one of the oldest towns in europe, established in 6 century BC. Then we will travel north to Varna and then south to Bourgas. My goal is to get a tan on my pasty white legs. I have been trying to bear them to the sun some of my trip but they just don't want to tan. But luckily, so far, I have not been burned at all, so at least hopefully that remains true.