Yesterday we went in the car about 50 km to the Bavarian Alps. We parked by the Olympic ski stadium where there are the jumps which are FUCKING huge. Then we went for a walk into the mountains where we had to pay 3 euros to enter the gorge which was so good after watching so many adventure films recently, like Avatar, seeing all these cool waterfalls in the rocks and rushing rivers and dripping ceilings and tunnels etc. We got through the gorge and came to a point where you can paddle in the river (German safety regulations are much better, it's judged more on a 'just be sensible and use your head basis' unlike the UK which is a lot more NO you can NOT go ANYWHERE near a car but here there is a thin wire made of dental floss between children, dogs and the GORGE with a deadly river running beneath.
We climbed the path up a very steep winding bit (with our panting and puffing host, Tim behind us) and eventually got to a beer hut where we ordered a schniztel and Sam had a MASS beer and I had a half litre and it got us pretty pissed, given the altitude influence! The view from the top was incredible, it was so good to be suddenly on a mountain adventure holiday! We stumbled back down the mountain (at one point my legs were fully shaking) which was pretty scary because it was rocky terrain and I was wearing flip flops!! ( I dont own walking boots, I think they are well gay)
We were super knackered after that and got home and a storm came with fuck off great lightening forks lighting up the sky and scary thunder and we went to bed shattered.
Today we got up at the crack of dawn because we had to get a lift at 8.30am to the nearest U Bahrn (underground) to travel to the Zoo. It was raining when we left the house but we hoped it would get brigher, by 9.30 we had arrived at H & M (WIN) which, after living out of a suitcase and wearing the same pair of shorts for about two months came as suuuuuch a nice relief to purchase a new item or two. My shorts have a broken zip and are super short and sometimes innapropriate, my other clothes are generally unsuitable a lot of the time so I seem to be carrying around a bag of useless items, including my Robert Welch kitchen knife ( On the premise that we were moving abroad) but that actually is usefull.
We got the zoo and the sun beat down. On arrival we immediately spotted deers :D my favourite, and then we saw bisen and then ducks and geese (fuck off geese) and then we saw big gorillas and monkeys and chimps and one big gorilla sat by the glass and touched hands with us and looked sad and then picked his nose and eyes and ate it. We then saw wolves, worms, fish, massive snakes, stick insects, tortoises, seals being fed and screaming in the ear of the feeder, and there was one massive fat seal at the back which was the king who didnt even need to leave his spot - the feeder just launched fish accross the pen to it out of respect to how big it is, seahorses, a tiger (not doing anything), lions, mandrills having sex (like baboons with a strange multicoloured penis), loads of goats which we could stroke and then had hands that smelt of goat, a puma, a panther, a brown European bear, a polar bear, elephants which were lifting logs up and taking them around the park, giraffes, camels, bats that flew around us, elchs, mountain goats, owls, siberian tiger, sting rays that had a polo pattern on them, sharks, kangaroos! that bounced but did not box, ostriches, emus, wicked pink flamingos! chimps, spiders (A German woman in a stripey shirt with short curly hair observing the spider next to us made an 'ooooeurrerurur' noise when she spotted the tarantula and put her hands by her head and made a scared face and then said something in German to us and we stared blankly at her. Whatever you want, they had. No whales though.
We walked for a thousand hours and broke every muscle in our legs, and bought an ice cream and I had to wait for the toilet because there was a little boy doing a poo in the girls toilet with the door open. Then suddenly at the zoo the atmosphere changed from lovely and sunny to ominous and cloudy. There was a mass exodus as everyone sensed the storm coming. We followed a man who looked like Rolf Harris to the exit and then pretty much ran all the way to the U Barhn as the rain pelted down. The lightening struck when we were on the train and it was mental, massive forks and bolts all over the sky around us. I was actually a bit scared. It lasted for ages as well, and we had to wait for a lift outside in it (wearing our summer weather clothing) it was the biggest storm I have ever seen.
When we got back our legs failed to work anymore and we ate dinner, drank a whiskey and are now going to bed for ever....
