Neuschwanstein Jan-Feb 2009

Google sightseeing & Fucking Austria

Obama Fingers, anyone?

I’m working on my book
As many of you know, I’ve been working on a guide book for, well,  a couple years now. The name has changed and there’s been quite a long delay, but it is coming. This last week I’ve worked on it more than I did for about a year. The reason? well, we almost moved…and while things were up in the air, we put everything on hold. In September I tried to set a deadline for myself for the 1st edition of the book to come out in November or so, now I’m thinking maybe January/Feb. Here’s the deal: at the moment I’m working on the 48 hour edition which I believe will be what most people actually want as I would say 90% of the

Rick Steves has an iphone app.
This is probably the best iphone app I’ve seen yet, brought to you by Rick Steves. Check it out here. Now, I HATE everything apple…but if you happen to have an iphone…well, you should definitely check his app out. There’s a demo video that explains what it can do… Personally, if he ports it to the S60 (for Nokia, samsung, etc.) then I would download them in a heartbeat. When I watched the demo all I was thinking was that with this app you could do all your research beforehand with the book, but then when you’re actually to

It’s COLD in Munich (and all of Bavaria, really)
I ca’t believe how cold it is this Oktober. We had a beautifully warm Oktoberfest and then October hit and the temp went from highs of 75F to 40F. We’ve had snow down at Neuschwanstein (I hate it when there’s snow down there, kinda makes things miserable…and illegal to get to Mary’s bridge, which everyone WANTS to go to….so…it sucks). We don’t normally get this weather til at least late November. Anyways, the tour numbers have finally dropped a little bit and that is a nice thing for me (not for the company, of course). The huge tours were starting to wear me down.

Munich’s central station all locked down
The Munich Oktoberfest is being quite disturbed by all the terror alerts.  Honestly, it’s a complete waste of time, if they wanted to attack, they would, JUST LET US DRINK OUR BEER WITHOUT A HASSLE.  Locking down the train station just makes for a hassle, that’s all… *sigh* oh well…here’s some pics:

Lack of motivation
Hi everybody, as you can read from my twitter updates (which you can see on the left hand side of the site), I’ve been busy doing tours, visiting Washington DC and New York City, but I really should get back to the blog. I went to the Oktoberfest today and so it’s not going to happen now, but soon  (tomorrow or Tuesday)  I’ll have all kinds of new pictures to show you. Tags: Oktoberfest, wiesn, beer, pictures,