Another town, another love story

We're in Bamberg, Keesmann was closed so we're already down one. We've checked in to our lovely hostel and been to two breweries today and have a lot to go! Above is lesson one: Pilsner on the left, Weissbier on the right. Bit late for lessons but you have to start somewhere.

Gone and jynxed it

Apparently, it's some religious holiday today, and apparently that means Germany is closed. This means that despite our plans, we are not going to Bamberg today. There is only one hostel in Bamberg, and they don't like answering their phone at all. So we have extended our stay here at the "let 'em sleep", hence a proper post on a proper German keyboard.

We headed out to town this morning after checking out, and found the place deserted. We were the only people in town and everything except McDonalds and Pizza Hut was closed. So after taking some footage of the ghost town we returned to the hostel, hungry and cold. We were also unable to find stamps for the Dürer postcards we bought for our loved ones (and families).

Our plan is to go back to Landbierparadise later this afternoon and finish the available beers. Tomorrow we will have to try and get to Bamberg and hopefully find a place to stay depending on the tourist office there (as they don't like working either).

Hopefully I will get a better nights sleep tonight, sharing with eleven people is pretty difficult!

Oh, and have a gander at the impressive list to your right! It'll expand depending on whether we find 'proper' computers! The asterisks signify breweries that we have sampled at the brewey tap it's self.

Bye for now.

Right, that's the touristy bit done...

We went out in the snow this morning to in and see some museums etc. and got as far as the old town before Chris remarked "nads to this, let's go to a brewery!". So we went for lunch in a tiny front room pub to escape the cold. After that we went to the Albrecht Dürer museum. There was an audio tour given from the point of view of his bitter and twisted wife. The ticket also got us in to the toy museum. Basically it was full of doll's houses and tin cars, but there was an almighty train set which was a big attraction (for me). Any way that was the tourist stuff. It's now 5.30 and we're in a bar to try a tonne of beers! It's what we do best.

This travelling is getting easy...

not to put a jynx on this, but we've had a lot of luck with this whole travelling lark. We're now in Nurenburg, in a nice hostel called "Let 'em sleep" (at least that is the way I read it). We arrived today after a heavy night of drinking. Pretty much scoured all the bars around Regensburg, drinking whiskey and annoying the owners. We got a good nights sleep (slept in till 10am) and had a hassle free journey all the way here.

Hey look, carriage returns; luxery. So we arrived here this morning (we haven't had a hang over so far, as German beer is that good apparently) and made our way straight to this huge hostel. We hadn't booked ahead as usual but managed to get two beds in seperate rooms. Chris is staying in a room called Ratzplaza or something and I'm sharing room with 15 other people. If my brothers sleepinmg bag goes missing I'll go nuts.

We did three brewerys today, so that keeps us above average. In celebration we have decided to take tomorrow "off" and just see museums instead. So it's probably worth mentioning that we have visited 20 breweries in the last 9 days, and we have also had beers from seven other bereweries. Every beer has tasting notes; including name, colour, volume, aroma, taste and finish. A lot of times we have kept "video notes", which means we have recorded our tasting sessions on camera. You'll have to bear in mind that we have had a good couple of beers per brewey so it's no walk in the park. I'm looking forward to my day off tomorrow!!

Must dash, toilet calls!

Another day, another photo...

Well we decided to sneak in a quick brewery whilst our drying in the laundrette was finishing And found ourselves in regensburg weissbräuhaus where once again we were treated to a beautiful they of the brewery's working coppers. We explained to the waitress in broken German that we were touring breweries so she went off to get something to help. We assumed they had a load of English literature or a €10 Dvd explaining why wheat beers smell like banana. Imagine our surprise when the brewer turned up! He showed us the whole process they used. He took us to see the fermentation tanks and told us all about the beer. Really nice surprise! Any way, must dash! Lots to see!

Already in Regensburg!

We arrived here in Regensburg before midday due to the Pasau hostel's sadistic 9am check out time. The city here (again) is beautiful, but almost for different reasons. The architecture and history is evident pretty much every where we go. I couldn't decide on a photo so settled on these amazing coppers which are behind the brewery tap in which we are currently sampling. Incidentally this is our third brewery of today (in the last 4 hours actually!). *** We're staying in a great hostel run by a brilliant character. I'm sure he'll be mentioned again! As soon as I trust someone enough to use my phone to take a picture of us two, i'll post one. Oh, big thanks to Ed Drummond and his radio show on skfm.com - go listen!

Missed a day!

We took a long train journey from Munich, we arrived at Pasau yesterday in the early afternoon. We were greeted by a closed tourist office which directed up to another closed tourist office. Undetered we relied on our proven map skills and ascended the huge hill in the picture un where we believed there would be a hostel. After an epic climb, weighted by our kit and self loathing, we made it to the youth hostel. Apparently they have some sort of membership thing we weren't aware of as it is a 'youth' hostel. Rather than hang around outside a converted fortress for some kids to sign up in, we lied about Chris' age and scored a room. We're still waiting to see if the other three beds will be filled. Yesterday evening we went to Innstadt brewery where we promptly fell in love with the the waitresses. We were very disappointed with the next brewery, Peschl. This morning we got up late and walked in to town for breakfast. It's worth mentioning that Pasau is really beautiful. We'll have plenty of pictures later!