Wish I'd had access more often, as I could have written stuff down before forgetting, but such is life! So the recap below:
Had a very long train ride from Kaiserslautern to Munich Airport, about 5 hours in total I think. We had to leave Tristans at 6am to walk there (in the dark), me lugging snowboard bag crammed with all gear + clothes for the week.
Bit of dilemna once getting to Munich, as this was the first time I tried to use the data roaming on my phone, only to discover it didn't work! Quite frustrating as I needed to call commonwealth bank to inform them that someone hadn't stolen my credit cards and taken off overseas. After a bit of freakin out, found a net place, where I could log on and get the phone number of comm bank I needed. Then found a payphone and finally manage to ring them! the phone call bit was easy, and whilst only one paragraph of (probably boring) text, that was me freaking out for a good hour at the airport!
Anyway, managed to hear an announcement that told us to go to info desk C (thankfully, since once at munich airport, had no idea where to get the transfer bus from). Turned out we were like the first ones to rock up (mayhem at heathrow for people ACTUALLY flying to munich), so got our gear on the bus and chilled with a beer. Managed to do some last minute important things, like getting sunscreen and Jagermeister (only 10 euros for 700ml bottle - that's like $15AUD! in Aus cheapest i've seen it is $20 at duty free).
Oh, and in Germany, you're allowed to drink in public! awesome! so the bus was loaded up with cold beers for 1.50 euro, so having to wait at bus for half an hour wasn't too bad since we could buy drinks from bus driver and sit in the sun enjoying a cold brew in the warm sunshine.
The bus was a little packed, mostly English people. Was a very pleasant ride along, we were able to buy beers for the ride along. Quite amusingly, Tristan was in agony after 30 minutes because he needed to go to the bathroom, and the bus ride was supposed to be over 2 hours.
Even more amusingly, after a while noticed people vanishing behind the stairs and realised that there was a toilet on the bus. hehe. Was quite well hidden but was an interesting few minutes there while he fretted uncomfortably.
Eventually got dropped off at our accommodation just out of town. Nice littel B&B (called Pension in German), but no one there really spoke English. Eventually an old lady came in from hanging clothes to talk to us, who then got another little old lady who knew some English, and we were able to get the room.
So an interesting thing in Austria that everyone should be aware of! In Austria, if you ask for a room with a twin-bed, you get an "Austrian Twin". This means you get the base of a double bed, with two single mattresses, a single sheet over them, then two seperate duvets (dooners). Cosy. Not sure how comfy I would have been if Tristan hadn't come along and I'd ended up having to share that bed with a guy you didn't know! Apparently that happened to one of the other guys, he rocked up late after partying, went to go to bed, and found a guy in his room on what appeared to be the only bed. Imagine there was a lot of confused people that first night. Had to share double beds previously on snow trips (rooms are often quite tight), so wasn't too weird, but yeah, not what I was expecting.
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