Our hostel had a free walking tour, so we went on that at 11am. It was alright, our tour guide was cool, but it was freezing and I was really tired. We accidentally walked in on a funeral (and took pictures since we didn't know what was going on) when he took us to see a big church (and told us to take lots of pictures).
He took us to a big beer hall, the Hofbräuhaus. Apparently its a really touristy place, but it was neat. And we got to see the upstairs, which was apparently used by Hitler and the Nazi Party.
After the tour, we went back to the hostel and napped for a few hours. Our hostel had a bar in it that was hopping every night, so we went to happy hour there, but then I went to sleep since I'm sick, but everyone else went out for a little longer.
Saturday the boys went to the BMW museum (we didn't really do anything while they were gone) and we met up at the train station to go see Neuschwanstein Castle, the castle that Sleeping Beauty's castle is modeled after. We almost missed the train there, but we got on it with about 3 minutes to spare. Then we got to the castle with barely enough time to walk up to it to make the tour. The castle was gorgeous -
The tour probably wasn't worth the 8 euros, but we snuck some pictures inside to make up for it -
We got back from the castle and went to happy hour at our hostel's bar again. We tried to go out after but we couldn't really find anything else going on, so we called it a night.
Sunday we went to the Dachau concentration camp. We were planning on going on the tour, which was 17 euro including all of the travel, but we were running a little late and we decided our eurail passes would probably save us a good amount of that money. So we ended up only having to buy a bus ticket 2 ways, and we got audio guides there for 2.50 euro each. We spent the entire afternoon there.
Afterwards we went back to our hostel and napped in the bar / lounge and got dinner at Pizza Hut (so good). Then we took an overnight train back to Metz. We almost missed our stop, but luckily I woke up, looked out the window, and saw the sign for Metz. Otherwise we might have woken up in Paris this morning.
Oh and we shared our room at the hostel with an old British dude who was kinda cool, but he was probably in his 60's and he spent most of his time there at the bar downstairs. We got there and he was like "I requested a room on the top floor so it would be quieter, I hope this is a quiet room." And then we woke him up at 4am one morning. But he gave me some eucalyptus for my cough (when he was drunk, so he spilled it everywhere and our room reeked of it the entire weekend). He was really nice, but he probably hated us.
It was a good weekend. I wish I had gone back to a beer hall or seen more of the nightlife, but it was still fun. They have a beer festival starting in a week or two with 700 calorie beer. That might give you quite the beer belly.
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