D-Tour Week 3 (At last…)

Just to fill in with all the other Deutschland Tour Posts (and yes, I know they’re well over two months late), perhaps start with the first one and then go in order. :]

You can’t defy the logic.

And now here’s what you’ve all been waiting for: the very last post, that finally means you can stop wondering when, if ever, this post will get written. Well it has at last!

As you all should know, the last stop that we had on our tour was in Hamburg, and in order, we’re now on our way to Bremen, the beer-brewing city that Beck’s calls home.

On arrival, we were herded out of the bus, told to chuck our luggage in the hostel (seen below), and then slip out to the Beck’s brewery to see how all the magic happens. After a fairly lengthy tour, that saw a few people drifting off into a land of slumber, we made our way into the older part of the city, encountering an Aussie themed cafe, going inside the city’s historical church, and checking out the main square. :]

The second of the weeks on D-tour.

As you may have already read this old post here, you’re probably wondering why it took me so long to get onto this one (a little over a month to be more precise). Well, it’s all to do with the fact i’ve been a very busy boy and that the internet seems to be rather spiteful towards yours truly. Shame, shame, shame. Anyway, I left you when we had just stayed the night in Wolfsburg (quite a memorable evening). So I think we should continue with the next day…

After waking up early [again], scoffing down our breakfast, and loading our suitcases onto the bus, we drove onwards a short distance to the Autostadt, where all the industrial magic of Wolfburg’s car industry can be discovered without the need to inhale toxic fumes or enter noisy overbearing factories. We arrived with great anticipation and were all excited for the day ahead. We went on a guided tour through the complex and learnt numerous things revolving around the car industry and its significance to the world and its economy. We had some Italian for lunch… At least I believe we did. All I remember is that we all ditched Torrington so he could eat his noodles. Soooo Lustig.

Audrey and Lil in front of our group motto.

This may have looked good. But the boat tour was terrible.

HEY LILY. Would you like to answer a few questions?

So this here is a second interview I made whilst on the German Tour. It’s between my fellow Commonwealth member, Lily of Canada, and I. We chat a bit about the things we got up to on the trip and what we hope are to come. Worth a listen, she’s an awfully funny girl, and has the talent for Broadway baby. Awfully jealous of her!

The beginning of a very long three weeks.

It may appear that my coining of this article provides a sense of despair or anxiety, but it is by far the opposite. I’m referring to, and beginning to unravel to you, the first week of what I got up to on a tiresome, but amazing, three week tour of this wonderful land. The ‘Deutschland Tour’ as we had called it, got us so hyped up before it had even begun that we bought t-shirts emblazoned with our trip title for the entire world (more so entire Germany) to see. (You’ll probably catch a glimpse of them later on).

So our story begins in my home town here: Augsburg, the beautiful  capital of Swabia. Our first stop was Rothenburg ob der Tauber, some 184 km’s drive from where we started. This is some of what we got up to on that very first occasion:

Haha. The Dolan face. I'm yet to conquer it.