1500km Road Trip in Germany

1st day

We got in Frankfurt night time and we stayed in the hotel which was next to the central station.
We were pretty hungry, so went to the food court in the station.
I bought a pork burger and Sophie had a mince meet burger which was her favorite.
Actually I was surprised German eat a fresh meet with burger. But it was nice!

2nd day
Parents picked up at the hotel and we headed to Munich.
Mum drove very very fast for me, 170kmh most of the time on the autobahn which was german no limit highway! But I felt OK this time. Autobahn is pretty wide and not many cars.
Some cars were super fast, I assume that was nearly 200km.

We got in Munich afternoon. Antje and Mohamed also came by.
And the hotel we stayed called Eurpian star( not sure the name anyway) was fantastic.
It was not exy compared the price appx 100 euro per room.
Room was super cool and clean, nice bathroom. Reception was also cool.
It seems like they opened a few months ago. Sophie did a great job to find it!

Anyway we cruised around the city but that was on Sunday.
You cannot believe In Germany almost all the shops were closed on Sunday...
Specially I am Japanese, I cannot believe every time when Sunday comes.

But on the other hand, thats a good system, everyone get at least one day spend with family in a week.

Then we went to have a dinner in some restaurant!
You know what I had, yes I had a lekker( delicious) steak!

3rd day,
It was unfortunately raining.. We went to shopping and bought some clothes etc..
Mohamed and Antje left here afternoon and he had to fry to Abudabi tomorrow.

Then we kept around the city and we went to the German traditional food restaurant.
I had a massive grilled pork, it was so goood. I loved the grilled pork!
Good time with parents!

After that Thomas who we met in Japan, he is a hardcore snowboarder, came down to our hotel and we had a few drinks. He sounded like he had a good snowboarding season last year.
And he will come back to japan next winter. I am looking forward to riding with him again.
We wish we had more time in Munich, we should have fun there!
Thanks Thomas coming down to see us!!

Our jet lag was hitting pretty bad night time. so tired and we looked greening out a bit!LOL

4th day,
We headed to Zurich Swiss.
On the way to Zurich, we stopped at the famous castle called Nueschwanstein castle.
Why this castle is famous for Japanese is because the disney built a castle based on this.
So it has pretty much similar appearance.

When we got in the castle, it was full on busy. We had to wait 3 hours to get in there.
We didnt have such time, so we just took some photos and left.

2 - 3 hours more drive, then we finally got in Zurich!!
Actually I didnt have any infomation and knowledge about Swiss....
I just know all the bad guys have an account in Swiss bank from the movies,, I am such a damn butt.

But when we got there, WOW it was BEAUTIFUL city!
I was shocked I could NOT find only one bum!! Most of ppl looks a bit posh though.

Walked around the city and also surprised the price of the clothes.
Not many discounts,,, I found a few snowboarding shops but they sell mostly as a real price..
and sometimes a bit of discount. Things are much cheaper here in Japan.
Design was pretty cool in Swiss anyway.

Then we went to caught a boat in the lake.
That boat is a restaurant boat, we had a cheese fondu!! Heaps of Cheese and it was good.
Nice boat trip as well! Thanks mum and dad, finding such cool experience!

5th day
Walking around the city, nice and beautiful. Shopping and coffes break!!

At the night Simon arrived here!! This was one of my highlight in this trip!
Simon was in France for snowboarding. And he could come down to see us.
We were so happy to see him.
We picked up at the station and headed back to hotel.

6th day,
We went to check out the Alps. I dont know what that mountain called but it was nice view!
It was different than Japanese one! I wish I could do snowboarding in Alps!

We stopped at the cafe and saw bunch of cows! They have a bell on the neck, so that when they walk, bells sound ding ding! so cute!

Then we went back to Zurich and saw the old townish place.
Back in city and we had a dinner.
After dinner, we met with Sophie's mate, Carl.
He took us to the bars. Simon was very much good at socializing.
I am not that good I guess. specially to speak with first time person!
Anyway it was awesome time for us. We took a few fanny photos. I will upload later.

7th day,
We said goodbye to Simon and headed back to Freigburg in Germany.
In Freiburg, checked out the city and lookout and market!

8th day,
shopping around and afternoon, we joined the witch history tour.
In the tour, everything was German. I had no idea what the tour guy was talking about.
But his gesture and talking was good, I could tell it!
Sophie explained me a story about witch story. It was kinda sad old story.

9th last day,
We headed back to the airport. On the way back there was a looooong traffic jam.
It took more than 5 hours to get back to Frankfurt.
But it was not so bored for me, bcuz everything from the window was nice view for me.

Anyway we got in the airport and Sophie was stayed one more week.
So I am the only one who is leaving.
This time I was not sad, becuase everytime I left the country there is good bye friend.
But Sophie will come back to Japan. So I was not sad.
I know her parents were sad because they can only see us in person once a year.
I could tell their feeling.

This is about our trip in Germany!

And I really would like to thank to Sophie's parents!
Total km was over 1500KM!! I am so proud of her mum! She drove us all the time and payed for a dinner all the time!
Thank you so much!

It was wonderful trip!

Check out out photos
http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/kenichiro924/2009OCTGermanyTrip?authkey=Gv1sRgCInK-aKixae8RQ&feat=directlink