More Germany

Hi all,

I know it's pretty soon since our last post but I managed to find a computer so thought I'd make the most of it.

I have a few photos that I wasn't able to get onto the last post, so I'll pop them up here. The first one is what Al looks like drunk (taken at the 90's party):

And here's a photo of what I look like drunk (and dancing which some will know is a rare occurrence) :

After that night, armed with mean hangovers we decided to deliciously check out the town. Osnabrük has some sweet castles and cathedrals and shit but what's even more interesting than that is a mode we found on our camera..."fat mode", here's a demonstration:

After seeing the sights it was time to get deliciously drunk again, so Lena took us out for a few drinks. During the night she had a great idea! Why don't we go and have one of the most disgusting shots Osnabrük has to offer?! I can't remember what it's called, but I do remember that it tasted truely horrible (it's super hot like ten million chilli's). Here's a video (sorry a bit dark) of us drinking them...if you can't make out what  is said, I think it may be "this is just fucking stupid":

The following day with even bigger hangovers we took off to check out Lena's home town, Cologne. Unfortunately we were only there for a night but she showed us some nice forest near her place. It was really cool and a bit like Narnia, not that I've seen the movie since it's for girls but I've seen posters so that's how I know. Here's what it looks like:

After a bit of a walk we popped out of the forest and into open fields where a lot of people take their dogs for walks. The dogs in Germany are weird man, they eat grass all day but they were quite slow-moving so we managed to get a few nice photos:

It was soon time to go so we went and slept for the night and the next morning Lena took us into town so we could grab a train to our next destination. She showed us a theatre in town that was built underground, but someone made a few mistakes and if pedestrians walk on the pavement above the theatre (which is just normal walking area) it echos super loud in the theatre so now if there's ever a show on they hire security guards to line the perimeter making sure no-one walks on the forbidden zone...ha crazy Germans. She also showed us a bridge that couples attach padlocks to and throw the key into the river, it's supposed to symbolize their love and can't be unlocked etc etc. There were literally thousands of padlocks on this bridge, but if you look to the top left of the following photo you might be able to see a few clever cookies have used a black combination lock! Ha! Good thinking!

 

Al and I then jumped on a train destined for Mainz to meet up with another couchsurfer we hosted in Brisbane, Urs. He picked us up from the train station and guess what time it was? Time to drink! We went down to the local irish pub (which is called "the irish pub") for a fairly massive night. Hangovers in Mainz are very similar to every other city and usually consist of headaches and sore stomachs. Not sure what to do for the afternoon, we found some plasticine for 1 Euro and thought we'd have a competition to see who could make the hotest plasticine woman. Here is Al's:

This one made by Urs:

And finally my entry:

 As all three of us were in the competition, we had to ask Yoshi to judge for us:

Unfortunately Yoshi doesn't speak German or English and none of us speak Yoshi so we still don't know who won, perhaps we'll leave that up to you.

Alright, that's all for now. I think in the next few days we are going to head to Switzerland so maybe something interesting will happen there.

Take care,

Dan and Al