Navigating Germany: A Journey Through Augsburg and Munich's Oktoberfest

Our Augsburg Adventure: Travel Struggles, Oktoberfest, and Exploring Germany | We Should Move Here Travels Podcast

Join Brittany and Josh as they share their travel experiences in Augsburg, Germany, on the We Should Move Here Travels Podcast. From navigating public transportation mishaps to enjoying the bustling Oktoberfest in Munich, they give a detailed account of their adventures and challenges. They also explore Augsburg's rich history, vibrant food scene, and local culture, while reflecting on personal growth and future travel plans. Don't miss this insightful and heartfelt travel journey!

00:00 Welcome to the Travels Podcast

00:55 Journey to Augsburg, Germany

02:06 Navigating Public Transportation

02:41 First Impressions and Challenges

04:45 Learning from Mistakes

06:20 Language Barriers and Oktoberfest Plans

08:25 Oktoberfest Adventures

12:59 The Debit Card Disaster

28:56 Recovering from Oktoberfest

32:11 Recovering from Oktoberfest

32:37 Munich Food Tour Experience

34:09 Exploring Munich's Local Market

37:47 Surfers in Munich

41:18 A Day in Augsburg

50:04 Reflecting on the Trip

01:01:55 Final Thoughts and Future Plans

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Transcript

Brit 0:11

Hello and welcome to the We Should Move Here. Travels podcast. My name is Brittany.

Josh 0:17

I'm Josh

Brit 0:18

and we are your host. We are currently in Augsburg, Germany.

Josh 0:23

Yeah,

Brit 0:25

we're so excited to be here. However, we're at the end of our time here and we had quite the trip. We had quite the trip here.

Josh 0:33

This has been a different kind of adventure being here For sure.

Brit 0:38

Mainly because of us. Mm-hmm. Um, so we'll get into it, but just brace yourself. It was kind of a different experience being here because of what we went through. Yeah. Not because of the place. Mm-hmm. But yeah.

Josh 0:54

Yeah. So, I mean, we got here. After our week long stay in Ghent, Belgium, we took public transportation here, so their international train system, and that was really enjoyable. I enjoyed the ride here. We did pay a small upgrade fee for first class seats, which was. It cost barely anything. So, and I would highly recommend it'cause we got a really nice spot. We got whole table in front of us, seats that laid back that were super comfy. Yeah.

Brit 1:30

Yeah. It was a really nice train ride. I certainly would recommend doing first class. I don't know what, uh, second class looked like, but like you said, it was barely anything.

Josh 1:41

Mm-hmm.

Brit 1:42

So yeah, definitely recommend doing that.

Josh 1:44

Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I booked those through Trainline. It's a website and they have an app and it was super easy just to, plug and play where we want it to go. And then. Pick that we want first class and yeah. Seats and stuff. So that's been really easy. That's what I've used on the trip so far, if I haven't mentioned that in previous episodes. So train line, uh, website or app. So that's been really helpful. Have had some changes with the train travel on the way here. There was like a timetable change and we had to deal with that. There was also, we were a little too close in our transfers, and that affected us missing one. Also, we got off slightly early.

Brit 2:28

We got off at the wrong stop.

Josh 2:29

Mm-hmm.

Brit 2:31

We thought for sure it was, it was the right stop, but it was not. Mm-hmm. And we had to find our way back, but we did it. Mm-hmm. It was fine. We figured it out.

Josh 2:42

So because of our delay in having to switch trains, we. Got into Augsburg very late, eight, nine o'clock, and we were trying to navigate the tram system right away'cause it was gonna take us about halfway to our Airbnb and then we were gonna have a short, like seven minute walk from that tram to our Airbnb. But when we got out and looked up on Google and used some resources, try to figure out how to use it, we went to the tram ticket station and it wasn't giving us the stop that we needed. because it was so late, we just got frustrated, walked out, there's a long line of taxis and so we just ordered an Uber that took us right there.

Brit 3:28

Which I think was the best call. Mm-hmm. I mean, it was late, it was a long travel day. Mm-hmm. We. We're, we were struggling. Mm-hmm. And we were struggling to be like, kind and patient to each other as well. And,

Josh 3:42

and we were hungry.

Brit 3:44

We were hungry. Mm-hmm. Yeah. We just wanted to make it here and then go out to dinner.

Josh 3:49

Yeah.

Brit 3:50

So I think the Uber was definitely the right call.

Josh 3:52

Mm-hmm.

Brit 3:53

And it was pretty inexpensive. I think it was like 10 euro

Josh 3:57

Yeah. After tip too. Yeah. So it wasn't, you know, in, in total. Like we could have walked it, but it would 18 minute walk pulling our luggage on cobblestones. It would've been a fun, a fun walk if we had to, which, you know, we gotta get up early tomorrow and hopefully we don't have to do it for tomorrow, but we'll see.

Brit 4:16

Yeah, we'll see. I don't know that you would've handled that the best you were. Getting really crabby.

Josh 4:22

Oh yeah. I was, I was frustrated. Well, it just, you know, when so many things are working against you, it felt like Yeah. You know, I had us get off the wrong trading station and then we got delayed to another one, and like we got here and it was all good, but it just felt like a lot of things were working against me and I was just struggling with that. So, but I mean, mistakes

Brit 4:47

are hard.

Josh 4:47

They are,

Brit 4:48

they're hard. But also we learn so much from them. Mm-hmm. And we've made, both of us, we've, we've made a lot of mistakes here on, on this whole trip. Mm-hmm. And I think if we hadn't, we wouldn't be learning as much as we are.

Josh 5:03

Yeah. For sure.

Brit 5:05

And we are, we're learning a lot.

Josh 5:07

We're learning about ourselves, about each

Brit 5:09

other.

Josh 5:09

Yeah.

Brit 5:10

About different countries, about mm-hmm. Traveling throughout different countries using trains, which is harder than it should be. I mean, easy and very accessible. Compared to the US it is so much more accessible. It is more funded. It's, it's readily available for you to use public transportation. However, sometimes it is difficult navigating it, especially if you do not speak the language mm-hmm. In the country. Mm-hmm. Which we don't. Mm-hmm. And so, it just makes it really difficult to navigate and, you know, we try to be the best partners that we can be to each other, but I think at times we lose sight of this being both of our first times experiencing this. Yeah. So I, I think both of us are. At fault, at some fault to doing that on this trip.

Josh 6:10

Oh, for sure. Yeah. I'm de I've definitely been guilty of that at times. Yeah, yeah,

Brit 6:15

yeah. Me too. And I apologize. I

Josh 6:17

apologize too.

Brit 6:18

I love you.

Josh 6:19

I love you too. Yeah, it's like you said, especially it's in a language that's, that you don't speak at all. And then here in Augsburg, very few people speak fluent English. And when we were getting ready to go to October Fest, our first full day here, we had to go to the ticket office to get a ticket to Munich so we could go there. And the first. Took a window that opened and we went on like, hello, do you speak English? And she's like, Nope, not at all. So just navigating that conversation was, was difficult. Because she's trying to help us as quick as she can so that she can help others. Mm-hmm. So it's, that's just a whole nother part of this is, you know, service people who don't speak English, who are doing their best to help you and you're doing your best to be, kind and understanding and realize that, you know, you're here and you don't speak their language. And it's a whole, it's a crazy interaction.

Brit 7:29

Yeah. No, it's, um, it's difficult but also not impossible.

Josh 7:34

No, not at all. Like, we ended up doing it. We got through it. Yeah.

Brit 7:37

We got through it, we utilized Google Translate when we needed to. We apologized that we didn't speak their language right. Mm-hmm. And we're here in their country. Mm-hmm. So like, how dare we expect that they speak English? Right. Right. but like, just having, having those interactions I think also helped us learn a lot and mm-hmm. Maybe we should learn more languages. Maybe we should, you know, really be on top of that. Mm-hmm. Um, and just try, you know, a couple weeks before we go somewhere to try and, you know, just learn simple things mm-hmm. So that we can have, very simple conversations if needed. Yeah. But Google Translate does work. Oh, mm-hmm. For sure. Works well. Yeah. But going to Oktoberfest mm-hmm. That very first day I woke up feeling pretty sniffly. Mm-hmm. Chalked it up to maybe allergies, just traveling. And I was like, I'll be fine. we got a coffee and at that point I looked at you and I was like, I am feeling a little rough. Mm-hmm. But I think that we can, can still do this. and then we went. To Octoberfest and had a really good time. Mm-hmm. Too good of a time. Mm-hmm. Four steins later. And we are stumbling back to Augsburg trying to utilize the train system.

Josh 9:05

it was, it was a rough way back. Neither of us really remember entirely how we got back. We, fortunately when we bought the, the train tickets to Munich to get there on that day, we bought round trip so we could get back by any. Any means necessary, basically. So, mm-hmm. We just found the first one that was coming back to Augsburg and we hopped on that one. No seats available though, so we had to stand up the whole way, which wasn't too bad. I mean, a half hour train ride, so it wasn't awful. But being someone that was a little tipsy, it was kind of like, oh, and then getting back, we, we really hadn't had too much to eat and so we had some late night McDonald's.

Brit 9:55

No, we had, we had nothing to eat and we had four steins of beer. I don't know.

Josh 10:01

That's not true. We did have, we did have chicken.

Brit 10:04

Oh, we

Josh 10:05

did. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Brit 10:07

Yes. At Oktoberfest, our server Samuel, shout out to Samuel'cause he was great. He had said that the pretzels and the bratwurst is overrated and that everybody should have the chicken, the roast chicken. That's what most Germans get at Oktoberfest. Mm-hmm. So that's what we got. Yeah. I don't know if he said it was overrated.

Josh 10:31

Yeah. He, he didn't say it was overrated. He said, and you can look this up like pretzels and bratwurst is more of a breakfast thing. A traditional breakfast meal here. Yeah. And I think he also said maybe the, the quality, because they just. Mass produce'em there at Oktoberfest because so many people from other cultures and languages come and they want brats and mm-hmm. Sausages and stuff. So they just make'em so quick and so the quality maybe isn't as good as. how it is at a nice restaurant, but he said, what is traditional at Oktoberfest, and a lot of locals get, and he said what they, what he knows they make very well is the chicken.

Brit 11:14

Yes. Yeah. So we did get that.

Josh 11:16

Mm-hmm.

Brit 11:17

Um, and that was really great. Mm-hmm.

Josh 11:19

Was really

Brit 11:19

good.

Josh 11:20

Yeah. And he was fantastic. He was our first server and we asked him about some things to do, some tents that we should go in. Ordering beer, all you gotta do is say you want two beers and that they'll just bring you there to light Oktoberfest beers and oh my

Brit 11:38

gosh.

Josh 11:39

He wa he was really, he was really nice. He's a cool guy to ta talk to and have us our first server, so yeah. Mm-hmm. He was

Brit 11:45

really great.

Josh 11:46

Yeah.

Brit 11:46

I think that was one of the best experiences we had at Oktoberfest, but I also would say, I would recommend going to that tent. Mm-hmm. What was the tents name?

Josh 11:56

Yeah, for sure. The tent we went into to start out with was the Festzelt Tent, if I'm saying that right. It's the tent that was for us. I don't know if they change every year, but for us it was right at the base of some people refer it as

Brit 12:15

Vomit

Josh 12:16

Hill. Vomit Hill,

Brit 12:17

drunk Hill.

Josh 12:18

Drunk Hill. and it's a, a crowd. I mean, when we went in there, the crowd was kind of our age and older singing some nice tunes, having a grand time, and it was a nice tent to be in. we have to talk about the whole,

Brit 12:36

what we have to talk about, what

Josh 12:38

the money.

Brit 12:39

Oh,

Josh 12:41

so this is,

Brit 12:42

oh my gosh, I can't believe we almost blew past that we were talking. No, this was like terrifying of an experience. Okay. I, I'll let you talk.

Josh 12:50

We were talking about, you know, what things we wanted to make sure we mentioned for this episode and both of us just complete, forgot about this, but I knew I was gonna remember something. Alright, so backtrack slightly. So, for when we started our trip from, from Belgium, Ghent Belgium to come to Augsburg here, I went into the train station at an ATM, I think it was like a cash points, ATM, something like that. Um, to get some cash just so I was ready for the trip and ready for Augsburg when we got here. So I didn't have to worry about it. Put my debit card into the ATM, which I had verified before I went. I put like a travel notice on it. It had cash in it. It wasn't expired or anything like that. It was good to go put in the cash points. Wait, please wait loads. And then it says error.'cause of error. We are going to keep and destroy your debit card. Like, oh my gosh. Now this is, I know this is the only debit card that I've brought'cause it's the only one that I have for this account that I used to use just specifically for traveling. But I know Brittany has some. So although I'm very upset though, I can't use that one. We bring spares of everything, credit card, debit cards specifically for this reason. So I tell Brittany about it, we're both upset. So when we had done our research for Oktoberfest, we had found that most of the beer vendors or the beer tents just accepted cash. There might be a few that take credit cards and do credit transactions, but the majority, if not all of'em. Do take cash, and that is king there. So if you have cash, you're served fast or everything goes quicker, they like it. So we had planned on doing that, and so that's why I had a debit card. And you had some spare debit cards just in case. So this ATM took my debit card. We were upset, but we're like, that's okay. We got a couple spares. So when we get to Munich for Oktoberfest we go to an ATM in there right away and Brittany pulls out her debit cards and puts one in, and we find out we have brought in two spare debit cards that are expired.

Brit 15:02

Yep.

Josh 15:02

And

Brit 15:03

not we, uh, I did.

Josh 15:05

Well, it's a, it's a, it's a team game here. It's a team thing. Neither of us thought to double check your debit cards because

Brit 15:14

we didn't think we would need them.

Josh 15:16

Yeah. We've always used mine. It's never had a problem in any of our trips. It's literally always been my debit card that we have used.

Brit 15:25

Yeah.

Josh 15:25

If you listen to all of the episodes we've done in the five years of our traveling, it's been my debit card. No problem. Ever.

Brit 15:32

I just didn't think to double check it. Mm-hmm. And neither did you. No, and I, as soon as I saw that message on the ATM, you were in the bathroom at the time and I was trying to get cash out. Mm-hmm. And I saw that message and I was like, oh fuck. I don't think it's just this one. I think it's my other one too. And I was like, how are we going to get cash here at Oktoberfest without fucking debit cards? I was on the brink of tears. I was like, I can't believe I did this. I'm so upset at myself. And you being, you know, the gentle patient kind person that you are, you were like, it's okay. We're gonna figure it out. And we did. We ended up figuring it out, but I was having a panicky moment.

Josh 16:22

Yeah. I fortunately bring a couple extra credit cards just in case something like that happens with a credit card or gets stolen, lost, whatever. And you do the same, but. We were fortunate that one of the credit cards I brought was a Bank of America one, and they allow you to set a ATM pin through their voice system or through the app. I can't remember which I did, but they allowed me to do that through their, and then I could use that for a cash advance, which is more expensive than using a debit card ATM. But we were in Germany at

Brit 17:00

Oktoberfest, at Oktoberfest in the grounds of Oktoberfest trying to figure this out. Mm-hmm. And we're like, we, I mean, we have to do this. Yeah. So we have to get cash. Yeah, yeah. We're not just gonna like go mm-hmm. Back to the Airbnb and not experience Oktoberfest when we're here. Right,

Josh 17:17

exactly. So the extra cash, advance fee and whatever for our credit card was totally worth it. We were just happy that. We were able to do it because I had another credit card that I tried to use before, and I don't know, pins for any of credit cards. I don't know, I've, I've never done a cash advance to credit cards. Mm-hmm. So I was just lucky enough to able to figure it out there and then, and, and then get it.'cause that would've been so upsetting if we would've had to just do like Yeah. A beer vendor on the outside, but, oh my goodness, that was, that was almost a disaster. But it was averted. So travel tip. Bring debit cards. Bring extra debit cards

Brit 17:59

that are not expired,

Josh 18:00

verify that they're not expired. And always like double check for any that you need to do, travel notifications or anything like that.'cause oh man, what a nightmare.

Brit 18:12

It really was. It was a nightmare. But we figured it out and I mean, honestly, we learned our lesson. We will never do that again. So

Josh 18:20

I, I mean, it was a nightmare that lasted what, like 20 minutes It was, yeah. So it wasn't long of a nightmare, but both of us were like, oh no. Yeah. Like, can we not participate in Oktoberfest? But

Brit 18:31

I mean, it was a moment where my heart sank into my ass. Like, I felt so unsettled with what was happening.

Josh 18:41

Yeah, I was, I mean, mine dropped to the bottom of my stomach. I felt sick. I was like, how could that previous ATM eat my card? And like, why didn't I get out cash sooner? So many like what if scenarios? But it worked out okay. It worked out fine.

Brit 18:56

Yeah.

Josh 18:57

We got to participate in Oktoberfest, which again was great. And like back to that, we went to, I don't know if I'm saying this right, but Schützen-Festzelt Tent, and Samuel there was great, again, we had chicken in that tent that he suggested was good. The beer was good. And then he had suggested that we go to the. What wheel was it?

Brit 19:23

It's the Wheel of Death.

Josh 19:25

Wheel of Death.

Brit 19:26

Oh my gosh. It was so fun to watch. So basically what it is, is it's an announcer that announces like a category. Mm-hmm. and categories are like kids or single women or, uh, single men or couples

Josh 19:46

And they give like age ranges.

Brit 19:47

Yes. So they give, uh, several different categories and if you are in that category and you want to participate you can jump into this wheel and it essentially spins around in a circle pretty quickly. and it kind of flings you off because. The velocity, is that what it is? Velocity?

Josh 20:10

Yep. Yep. The at the speed at which it's spinning. Yes.

Brit 20:13

Yes. The velocity kind of takes you out and then if you're in the middle at the end, then you win that round. But they try and get you out with like a ball dropping on your head or they try to like saddle you out of, what is it called? Hog tie.

Josh 20:31

Yeah, like hog tie. Ho you out using like a rope to lasso you. Yeah.

Brit 20:36

Yeah. So it was so fun to watch. Mm-hmm. It was really fun to watch. I was not about to jump in and neither were you. Mm-hmm. We were two steins deep at this point. Yeah. And I think I might have thrown up if I did that, but it was so fun to watch and we ended up seeing Eli Manning. Yeah, participate in this.

Josh 20:56

We, we are 99% sure it's Eli Manning. I haven't seen another video of him doing it. There was a professional film crew there filming him and another like ESPN announcer that I recognize. So, maybe we'll put this in the YouTube video version of this podcast. you can decide for yourself if this is Eli Manning, but we're pretty sure yeah, it, the category for that was like men over, I don't know, like it was

Brit 21:26

like big men.

Josh 21:27

Big men. It might have been like former professional because it was. It was Eli was the other announcer, and then it was like two other really tall, like burly guys. And then, uh, a woman was up there too, so, yeah. But it was fun to watch and like interesting to, to run into them. but yeah. So we, so we watched that,

Brit 21:49

The Wheel of Death.

Josh 21:50

Um, it

Brit 21:51

sounds really scary, but it's not.

Josh 21:53

It's the

Brit 21:54

best in wheel. Well, I mean, I'm sure it's scary if you're in

Josh 21:56

it. Oh yeah. It wasn't scary to watch, but oh, the number of like unsupervised kids that were doing this,

Brit 22:04

oh my gosh, there were so many kids. I didn't expect to see so many kids at Oktoberfest. I really didn't.

Josh 22:11

Well, and it's, you can look up the map for it and I'm sure people got videos and we got a video of it. Half of Oktoberfest is these massive beer tents, beer halls that are put up and taken down every year, which we found out, which is just nuts.

Brit 22:27

It's crazy.

Josh 22:27

The other half is like an amusement park. Yeah. And they got like games and they got, you know, the wheel of death. They got a bunch of, you know, candy, stuff like that going on. I'm sure like other food vendors, bunch of stuff going on there. So there's lots to do. But when we were in this tent for, the wheel, there were so many kids, I doubt there were enough parents, adults to be supervising all these kids individually. So. It was just a crazy experience.

Brit 22:56

But also we've noticed this throughout the trip in Europe in general, that in all of these cities, there's a lot of unsupervised kids. Mm-hmm. I think it's just different here because I, there's not a whole lot of, you know, gun gun violence. Mm-hmm. There's not all of the things that maybe parents are freaked out about here. Mm-hmm.

Josh 23:19

No, I mean, I know what you're saying. definitely something that they don't deal with a lot here. Yeah. But, but yeah, it, it has been something we've noticed a lot. I mean, in Europe in general so far we've noticed lots of kids very young. You know, biking to school, walking to school with friends, just hanging out. But it is just interesting at a, an event like Oktoberfest where there's so much adult activity and Yeah. If you're listening to this, I'm not sure if you saw any of the Oktoberfest news, but they actually had to close it down. What was it that Saturday? Or this

Brit 23:55

Yeah, the Saturday.'cause we were planning to go that Saturday. Mm-hmm. Uh, we ended up not going, we'll get to that, but, it was completely full. Mm-hmm. And people couldn't move. Yeah. In the crowd. It was so full.

Josh 24:09

Yeah.

Brit 24:09

I'm so glad we did not go. Oh.'cause that sounds like a nightmare.

Josh 24:13

Mm-hmm.

Brit 24:13

But yeah.

Josh 24:14

Yeah, we saw some tiktoks and social media videos about it, and people literally just shoulder to shoulder just trying to like, basically swim through this crowd of people to get to places. And all the beer halls were completely full and doors closed, and that was not our experience at all. We went on a Thursday and there was room to walk around. All the beer halls were open, we were able to walk through them. Uh, we got to sit inside. Sit outside. Uh,

Brit 24:43

yeah, I mean, I would definitely recommend going on. A weekday. Mm-hmm. Uh, a weekend would be

Josh 24:50

Oh my gosh,

Brit 24:51

that would be crazy.

Josh 24:52

Yeah. I

Brit 24:52

mean, it was busy when we went.

Josh 24:54

Mm-hmm.

Brit 24:54

But not that busy.

Josh 24:57

No, no. Not that busy at all. Yeah.

Brit 24:59

That's wild.

Josh 25:01

Mm-hmm. But yeah, and it was a, it was a good experience. I enjoyed it. it was fun. I'm glad we did it. We did not need to go a second day. I, I don't think, you know, I think you, you go once if you're, if you're just a couple I. You can probably get the most of Oktoberfest in a single go if you want to.

Brit 25:21

Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. And I think the only thing that I would have maybe changed is getting, renting a table, um, so that we were closer to like the bands and like more in the crowd of people dancing. Mm-hmm. We were kind of like on the outside of that. Yeah. Just watching. Yeah. Which was still really fun. Mm-hmm. Um, but I would recommend getting a table kind of by the, where the band is going to be

Josh 25:51

in the tent. Mm. Now, especially if you're more than just like two people.

Brit 25:56

Yeah. For if you're two. Oh for sure.

Josh 25:57

If you're two people, you can probably get in there on a weekday and if someone has a table and they got some room and they're nice enough, you can probably join'em at a table. Mm-hmm. Um. We just picked one kind of outside of like the main mosh pit of tables that everyone had rented and we gotta sit at the table by ourselves and eat and drink. And it was totally fine when we went into the, into one of the tents. So, um, but no,

Brit 26:25

it was super fun. Yeah. yeah, and then we had, after we saw the wheel of death, we had two more. Steins, outside of a tent. Mm-hmm. And it was kind of like a beer garden area. Mm-hmm. Super cute area. And at, at this point I start to forget what happened. And I mean, Josh and I, we don't drink like we used to. Mm-hmm. We do not drink a lot. Yeah. I know we talk about like drink culture and stuff, but we do not drink a lot. Um, and it was very evident at this point that we should have stopped.

Josh 27:04

Yeah. We, we did meet some, a very nice couple I forget where they were from that we talked to.

Brit 27:11

Could not tell you.

Josh 27:12

No, we did met, uh, they were from the United States. They had just ran in the Berlin Marathon.

Brit 27:19

Yeah. I,

Josh 27:19

I can't, I can't remember the names or where they were from exactly. But we had a really nice conversation with them. We talked about the podcast a little bit. We talked about what they were doing and their Trip and everything. They had been to, I think it's Bogden Bogden if I'm saying that correctly. It's a German town, I think, on the border of France, and it's, they went there for a spa, which was really nice. So. Hmm. But that was fun. It was nice to meet some people, talk to people, drink, you know, like you said, at that point we had had our last one. And then we had, again, we made our way back.

Brit 27:54

We stumbled out of there trying to find our way to the train station on a train back to Augsburg, trying to find something to eat and then trying to find our way back to this Airbnb all wasted. I mean, like, yeah, we, uh, we, we probably should have stopped at two, to be honest.

Josh 28:18

Well, it just had a bigger break between two.

Brit 28:22

Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. I mean, we

Josh 28:24

were warned and you're warned when you look, when you are looking up on Oktoberfest and what to do, these steins are. There are three beers. They're like three pints of beer, at least, I think. And they are, even though it's light beer, it's a stronger Oktoberfest beer, probably six point a half, 7%. So it's not like insanely strong, but stronger than, you know, an American light beer, like a Bud Light or a Coors Light or something like that. So,

Brit 28:55

yeah. Yeah. That next morning I woke up feeling very ill. Mm-hmm. Like extremely ill. Mm-hmm. More than just hangover. Yeah. Ill, yeah. but I was extremely hungover. Mm-hmm. But I think the sniffles that I had the day before mm-hmm. Turned into something a lot more and I think they probably would've anyways. Yeah. So I woke up with like a fever and really plugged up nose. Still feel, you know mm-hmm. Slightly ill, you can probably hear that in my voice. But I mean, I'm much better than I was. Mm-hmm. I mean, it was fever, body aches, chills, all of that. Yeah. It was really terrible. But then I slowly started to feel better, throughout the day, throughout the next couple days. And now I'm feeling thousand percent better than I was. Mm-hmm. So, but that next day we really stayed in bed because of that. Mm-hmm. And I don't think I could have made it out of bed, to be honest.

Josh 29:58

Yeah. That was, you were, you were definitely going through it on, on, uh, Friday morning that was.

Brit 30:05

It was rough. Mm-hmm. It was really rough. It was, it was hard. But we got, I got through it. Mm-hmm. And you were really helpful. You got me like a cold washcloth. You got me. You made sure the windows were open and then closed. And then, because you know, when you have a fever, you're like really cold and then you're really hot and it's just,

Josh 30:25

and, and in Europe there's a lot of places that don't have ac. So this, this Airbnb is fantastic. It's amazing. We are doing this podcasting on the floor. If you haven't been able to tell already.

Brit 30:37

Yeah, I can't get comfortable, so I keep like changing positions.

Josh 30:40

But it doesn't have like lots of places in Europe. It doesn't have ac so we got windows, a bunch of Windows that pop open that I can help with that. But yeah, that was. That was a rough day. Instead of going out somewhere to eat like we normally would, I went to the local Aldis and got some frozen pizzas and some snacks and some, you know, hydration drinks and some juices, ginger shots, stuff like that to help nurse us back to health for the day.

Brit 31:14

Yeah,

Josh 31:14

and it actually, being on an international trip, never really wanna waste days, but we've been, I don't know what day it is now, but at that point it was day like 17, 18. So definitely been. A long trip so far.

Brit 31:32

Yeah. We, and we have been, go, go, go. at that point, we really needed it, and I really think that maybe my body needed us to slow down. Mm-hmm. I mean, I haven't been sick in a very long time. I think I've talked about this on the pod mm-hmm. Before I, I just haven't been sick in a long time. I think that's a lot of it is due to hot yoga and the infrared light and sweating out toxins and things like that. But we haven't really had access to a lot of hot yoga. We've done some yoga. Mm-hmm. Um, but not hot yoga. So, yeah.

Josh 32:08

Yeah. That's, that's definitely contributed to how we were feeling. But y yeah, that day after Oktoberfest, we were definitely due for a down day, you know? Yeah. As unfor, as unfortunate as it is on an international trip, just a day to chill was something that we needed.'cause like you said, we've been, go, go, go, walking around, seeing the sites, getting a feel for the city, doing all the work that we can for this podcast and enjoying ourself. Yeah, yeah. But yeah. And then the um, the next day you were feeling a little better and we decided to go back to Munich for a, a food tour that we had there. And we had previously planned that we were gonna do this food tour early in the day. It was 10 30. And then when we got done, we were just gonna walk into Oktoberfest So obviously we didn't do that. They did the food tour, which was. Okay.

Brit 33:05

Yeah, it definitely wasn't the best food tour I've ever done. I really did like the, the pastry that we had. Mm-hmm. But that's about the only thing that I really enjoyed there. Mm-hmm. No, I'm pretty like adventurous and I'll try everything. And I did. Mm-hmm. I tried everything. The pretzel was pretty good. Mm-hmm. But then we also had the, uh, sausage, oh, the breakfast sausage with the pretzel. Uh, and it was like kind of white and the texture was, yeah. Very different.

Josh 33:38

Very pale.

Brit 33:39

Yeah. It's, in my opinion, it wasn't very appetizing.

Josh 33:44

I liked it. I thought it was fine.

Brit 33:45

I, but my stomach was also mm-hmm. Still like healing, I think from, yeah. The four steins of beer we had. Mm-hmm. Two days before. So, yeah, I was trying to take it really easy. And then there was also like beer and wine on that tour and mm-hmm. I did not drink, so, um, actually no, I did try the, the honey wine. Yep. Yeah. That was really delicious. Mm-hmm. We went through the local market.

Josh 34:12

Yep. Yeah, we walked around there and that's, that's where we had the honey wine, and we also had the cheese platter and the cheese spread.

Brit 34:19

Oh, that cheese Ah, oh, that. I did not like that

Josh 34:23

one. Again, one could have been, could have been the, the stomach stuff we were going through from Oktoberfest, but there was some, uh, it

Brit 34:30

was some funky cheese.

Josh 34:32

Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't great.

Brit 34:34

Yeah. And again, like I, I was going through the stomach stuff mm-hmm. And. I am also somewhat picky. Mm-hmm. So I don't mean to shit on someone's, you know, parade mm-hmm. If they love that cheese. Mm-hmm. Like, I don't, I don't like funky cheese. Yeah. I like sharp cheddar. Mm-hmm. That's about as funky as I'll get. Yeah.

Josh 34:53

Yeah. There, there wasn't a cheese where it's just like, oh, this is like a sharp cheddar that's, you know, aged this much and it's made in German. No, it was all like, this is truffle cheese, this is jalapeno cheese. This is a caramel cheese.

Brit 35:08

Oh my God.

Josh 35:09

And then a goat cheese, and then some sort of cheese spread that was. I don't know. I can't remember what it was. It was

Brit 35:15

caramel cheese was so disgusting. Yeah, it was so gross.

Josh 35:19

I don't know. The bread was good. The honey wine was so mead, it was warm. So that was, that was really good. That was good.

Brit 35:26

That was actually really comforting. Mm-hmm. And I was surprised to feel slightly good after that. Mm-hmm. Because I was like, I, I'm gonna try it, but I don't know if my stomach can handle it right now. So, I did try it, but again, I was feeling ill, so, I had like, my nose was completely stuffed up mm-hmm. And I was trying to keep my distance from people. Mm-hmm. I really was. So I might have been a bit off-putting to people, but I'd rather be off putting than get them sick. So,

Josh 35:57

yeah.

Brit 35:58

I did try all of that though, and,

Josh 36:01

yeah. Yeah. The last thing we had was a shredded pancake with applesauce.

Brit 36:07

Oh, that was really good.

Josh 36:08

Yeah. Mm-hmm. It's, it's called a, I'm gonna probably say this wrong, a kaiserschmarrn. I don't know it, I probably said that wrong, but yeah, it's a shredded pancake and they, uh, often serve it with applesauce or a, a plum concentrate thing. Something like that. But it was good. It was like a sweet treat, filling, sweet treat.

Brit 36:28

Yeah. He said that was actually an Austrian dish.

Josh 36:31

Hmm.

Brit 36:32

So, that was really good. Mm-hmm. I'm glad we did the food tour, I also wouldn't recommend it based on the price that we paid for it. Mm-hmm. I don't think it was worth it. And the tour guide, like, he was really nice. Mm-hmm. He was just really soft spoken and, and didn't give a whole lot of information or energy around the tour. Yeah. So I, I just wouldn't recommend it.

Josh 37:02

Yeah. I, I, I wanna say it was 70,$75 for the tour per person and yeah, it just wasn't a lot of substance to it. Yeah. So good experience. Glad we did it, but. If you're looking for recommendation for a tour, wouldn't suggest this one. I think it was a secret food tour, A hidden food tour. It was, it was the

Brit 37:29

secret food tour in Munich.

Josh 37:31

Yeah. In Munich. Yeah. So, just unfortunate. And it was even busy with Oktoberfest, so there were lots of people walking around and that really didn't take away from the tour. It was just the substance of the tour. Yeah. Just wasn't, wasn't all that great for the price. After that we walked to the surfers.

Brit 37:51

Oh yes. Mm-hmm. The surfers. Mm-hmm. That was so fun. Yeah. That was a process. I really enjoyed that.

Josh 37:56

Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's just, uh, it's a park in Munich and they got a stream with some fast flowing water and people just come with their wetsuits and their surfboards or I'm not sure if they're surfboards cause they're smaller than like standard ocean boards, but whatever. They're surfboards and they jump in and they, ride these, this stream of waves and this one spot until they fall off. And it was interesting to, to see'em do that and have fun. So. Yeah. And there were a lot of people watching it, so a lot of people knew about it. So

Brit 38:30

Yeah. There were so many people watching and it did look like they were having a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah. And then we walked along like the gardens and that was so stunning. Mm-hmm. So beautiful. Mm-hmm. All of the flowers in there, in like triangle patterns. Yeah. And really beautiful. And then we walked back, uh, to the train station, came back to Augsburg and where did we go?

Josh 38:54

I was gonna bring up, when our walk back, we kind of, we walked through a little bit, kind of, I think of Old Town Munich and we actually walked past a, like a protest.

Brit 39:02

Oh yes we did. We, we watched that for a little bit. Mm-hmm. Just like observing what was happening, trying to figure out the conversations that were being had.'cause it was like over a microphone.

Josh 39:12

Yeah. Using Google Translate to pick up some, some of the conversation and then go through it. So a lot of discussion about Gaza Israel, Palestine. So

Brit 39:23

yeah, there was a lot of disagreement on whether Germany should be a part of helping Gaza or not.

Josh 39:30

Mm-hmm. From what we could pick up. Yeah. That's, that's what we were understanding was about. Yeah.

Brit 39:35

Yeah. So we were just observing that and yeah, that was really interesting to observe.

Josh 39:41

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But yeah, then we, uh, then we went to the train station, When we came back, we ended up going to this restaurant called La Boheme. It's LA space B-O-H-E-M-E, kind of a. More traditional serving restaurant. It had a wide variety, but it had some Bavarian traditional dishes and that was really delicious. We had a dish that was homemade pasta with cheese and then Was it pork on top or beef?

Brit 40:18

Yeah, I think it was pork on top. Mm-hmm. it was like a, like a mac and cheese. Which was delicious.

Josh 40:26

Yeah. Yeah. It, and it was, it was in-house made pasta like, noodles, shells, mac and cheese. I'm pretty sure I'm looking at the picture now. I'm pretty sure it's a chicken or pork with, uh, crispy onions sprinkled on top. That was really delicious. Mm-hmm. And then the other dish we had was, uh, salmon.

Brit 40:47

Oh yes. Mm-hmm. That was really good salmon.

Josh 40:51

Mm-hmm. With potatoes and a cream sauce.

Brit 40:53

Mm-hmm.

Josh 40:54

And that was delicious.

Brit 40:55

We should go back there. That was really good.

Josh 40:58

We, we actually went back there for drinks just yesterday. We were walking around because it's in a really fun spot underneath, uh, some walnut trees and right along a little canal, another canal,

Brit 41:10

another canal.

Josh 41:11

Um, really cute little canal. So, um, and we just had drinks there and they served some good stuff, so that was nice. Mm-hmm. Um, then the next morning, super funny, you, you had looked up this place for coffee and breakfast called Cafe DTL, D-I-C-H-T-L, and we went there for breakfast and coffee and you tried to order your ice latte with the oat milk that you love to do and they didn't have it. and the server said, oh no, we don't have that, but we have latte and vanilla something. Because it was in German, and so we, neither of us fully understood it. And you were just like, okay, just going with it. And I was like, once she walked away, I said, I have no idea what you ordered. And you're like, oh, just find out here. She brings this latte just filled with ice cream, vanilla ice cream, and whipped cream

Brit 42:13

was, it was a heavy whipped consistency. It wasn't a consistency of ice cream. It was like a heavy whipping topping. Yeah. Inside of just black coffee. Mm-hmm. But it was, it looked like a 7-year-old would've drank it. Oh,

Josh 42:32

for sure.

Brit 42:33

Like it looked like an ice cream sundae.

Josh 42:35

Yeah. Yeah. It, it more looks like, almost like a root beer float than mm-hmm. A coffee. So. Mm-hmm. That was so funny.

Brit 42:42

Yeah. It, it was okay. It wasn't the best, but we did get, I did get the eggs benedict. Mm-hmm. And that was delicious.

Josh 42:50

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I was, I was struggling with some of my own stomach stuff, maybe from Oktoberfest whatever, but I'm pretty sure I'm lactose intolerance. So you

Brit 43:00

are for sure lactose intolerant.

Josh 43:03

Sometimes if I overdo it with cheese, my stomach just gets in a, goes in a frenzy. So I was, I was off the dairy for the day, so I, I had the traditional Bavarian breakfast of the, the sausage or bratwurst and the pretzel with the. The mustard. Mm-hmm. So, and that was good. And this was our first real full day that you and me could walk around Augsburg Yeah. And see stuff because of, you know, we had done Oktoberfest and then stayed in and then back to Munich. So we didn't, we didn't get a chance to experience Augsburg until the fourth day here, basically.

Brit 43:43

Yeah. We were late in the game.

Josh 43:45

Yeah.

Brit 43:46

But we also, I mean, we needed that. We needed it. But it was fun exploring Augsburg that day. Mm-hmm. And you had created this little tour and you took me around as a tour guide. Mm-hmm. I felt really special'cause I was holding hands with the tour guide and you were like telling me all of the interesting facts about all of the buildings. Mm-hmm. Then we went inside the cathedral, which like, we're not churchy people, but pretty cool to see a big building and a big church that's older than, you know, the US is. Mm-hmm. that was pretty cool. And then just like exploring where to eat and the food here. Mm-hmm. The food scene is really good here. I would say there's a lot of different kinds of foods that you could get.

Josh 44:35

Yeah, for sure. just because we didn't get enough time to explore more of the food scene or Augsburg in general we can't do too much of it. Real justice Like you said, I kind took us around this little AI generated and self-generated tour to a few spots. You know, we went into this old like bank family's mansion that a garden in it. And we saw some things in there. An old kind of factory building that was painted by an artist that was supposed to represent Augsburg. That was really neat.

Brit 45:11

Mm-hmm.

Josh 45:12

I wanted to take us to. There's like a large tower near their town hall that I wanted to take us to because if it's a clear day, you can see the Alps from the tower, but it was under construction. It was a really cloudy day anyways, so we didn't get to do that. They did have the car show going on. Yeah. So as we were walking around, they had a bunch of old cars, mostly Mercedes it seemed like, and then they also had kind of like a, a newer car thing going on for electric vehicles, promoting electric vehicles. So, uh, that was going on and that was cool. And they were kind of like fair festivities, like blow up bouncy houses and fair games and stuff like that. We didn't participate in any of'em because. I think we were a little nervous with not, you know, being able to speak German trying to go up and participate in something and then taking away the experience from someone else. So, but yeah, it was neat to, to walk around that day. Very cute part of town. We're staying right on the edge of Old Town, so mm-hmm. We, we step out our door here and we're walking on a cobble to Stone Street and then less than three minute walk down the road. We're pretty much in the center of Old Town.

Brit 46:25

Yeah. Which is really nice. I really love this location. Mm-hmm. We haven't had to do too much public transportation to get places within Augsburg Yeah. That we wanna go to. Yeah. So it's been really nice. We've just been walking everywhere and mm-hmm. That's been great. I think you did mention before, like if we had to take public transportation, it was really difficult to figure out. Mm-hmm. We did not use the tram at all. Yeah. Which is okay. Mm-hmm. I guess I just we're, I'm worried about tomorrow

Josh 46:57

we'll be fine. Yeah. We, we actually, when we were talking to, uh, Samuel at Oktoberfest, our server there and a couple other people, they've all said that the public transportation in Germany has kind of fallen off as far as quality. The trains are delayed a bunch a lot of breakdowns, a lot of services needed, so nothing runs on time. What they were saying, like, don't ever rely on the timetables they have,'cause most likely it's gonna be off and wrong, so. That's, just kind of disappointed. And then, you know, we talked to him about not being able to navigate the tram system, and he's like, yeah, it's, it's not easy or convenient. Like the last two places we've been, it's been very easy to figure out. You just hop on, tap your card and then get off when you need to, or tap your credit card. When you get off this, you have to buy a ticket beforehand and present it when you get on. So that's a little more difficult for us to try to figure out. And we, we haven't figured it out, so maybe it's easier than we think, but

Brit 48:03

Yeah, definitely could be. But we also haven't really needed to figure it out. We haven't in a lot of situations. Yeah. It would only be getting to the train station. Right. That we would really want that. But it works. It's fine.

Josh 48:18

Yeah. Yeah. And there's so much to do here in Augsburg. Well, there's, there's enough to explore that we haven't had the time. To get out, especially with the limited number of days Yeah. That we've had. But yeah, like you said the food scene's pretty great. Um, there's been a ton of little stalls, like open air kind of marketplaces a couple times that we've walked by with lots of food we haven't got to try. But we've gone to like that La Boheme restaurant. That was really good. We also went to Ryu, a Vietnamese street food restaurant. Oh, very good.

Brit 48:56

That was amazing. And our server was so nice.

Josh 49:00

She was, she was great. She was so

Brit 49:01

kind.

Josh 49:02

And the non-alcoholic drinks that we had there were delicious. Uh, we had kind of a soup bowl and then. I don't know what yours. It was just kind of a, a chicken and veggie platter.

Brit 49:17

Oh, it was a ginger chicken.

Josh 49:20

Ginger chicken. Yeah. And

Brit 49:21

veggies.

Josh 49:21

Yeah.

Brit 49:22

And that was amazing. I mean, it was delicious. Really comforting. Mm-hmm. And my nose started to clear up when I was eating it. Mm-hmm. And I was like, yes, this was the goal

Josh 49:32

where I need it.

Brit 49:33

We also when I get sick, I don't know why, but I crave a lot of pizza. So we've had pizza at like three different places. One of which was the frozen pizzas you got. Yep. And then we got pizza last night. And

Josh 49:50

our, our very first night here we had, we went to, uh, studio Napoli.

Brit 49:54

Yes.

Josh 49:55

Yep. And had pizza there. So we've had pizza a couple times. Who knows, we might have pizza tonight.

Brit 50:00

You know, it's never a bad idea to have pizza.

Josh 50:04

And like we said, it's, this trip has been fun. and educational for us. Like so many things we learned about ourselves, what we're gonna do going forward as far as this podcast, how we wanna operate. But also, you know, this is, let's see, the last full day that we're here, probably day 22. So it's been, it's been a long trip so far.

Brit 50:29

It has been a long trip and. I really miss my cats. I'm trying not to tear up saying this, but I really miss them. And, there was something that happened over the past couple days where Callie got into some fly traps that we had because we were getting these huge ass flies and we didn't know what to do. So we set those out and I don't know how she got into them, but she did. And me being a mama bear, I just, I wanna hug her and cuddle her. Mm-hmm. And I also wanna make sure, at the time I wanted to make sure Oreo wasn't eating the fly traps. So just a lot of things with the cats came up and, um, I just wanna be with them and I miss them a lot. Yeah. And I also just like miss my bed, being sick. I was like, usually my cats would be right on top of me. Oreo would be on my chest purring, trying to heal me. Mm-hmm. And yeah, I just miss them. Yeah.

Josh 51:31

Yeah. And that's, you know, that's affected this part of the trip as well.

Brit 51:35

Yeah. I mean, not in a way where we didn't enjoy ourselves mm-hmm. Because we certainly did. And we are still, you know, trying to make the most of it. But I think it's caused us to have a lot more conversation around how we structure our trips. Yeah. And just what we want this to look like.

Josh 51:53

Yeah. And you know, as far as Augsburg, again, some good food spots. Good architecture, It's been fun walking around, getting to see the place. Love cobblestones, love canals. we also went to a, another restaurant called Coco the other night. Oh

Brit 52:14

yes. Mm-hmm.

Josh 52:15

Mm-hmm.

Brit 52:15

I got the salmon. Definitely recommend the salmon. the skin was so crispy And it was a teriyaki sauce. I believe. It was delicious. Yeah. I ate the rest. At like 2:00 AM last night because I was hungry. Yeah. And no, it was two nights ago. Mm-hmm. And I was starting to like, feel better. Yeah. So I ate cold salmon and veggies and it was delicious.

Josh 52:40

It was good. We also had gyoza, which was really good. And then I had this duck salad with a like soy sauce and miso like reduction. And that was delicious. So that's a good recommendation if people come to Augsburg

Brit 52:56

for sure. Yeah.

Josh 52:57

And then we also Yesterday morning we had breakfast and coffee at this place called Picnic, which is two minutes from here. So super convenient. Great bagel sandwiches. I had like a Greek bagel sandwich. You had a

Brit 53:17

avocado,

Josh 53:18

avocado cream cheese bagel sandwich.

Brit 53:22

So delicious. It was huge. Mm-hmm.

Josh 53:26

Mm-hmm.

Brit 53:26

I mean, these bagels were the size of our faces. They were, they were huge. Yours was,

Josh 53:32

oh

Brit 53:32

my gosh, ginormous. Mm-hmm.

Josh 53:34

Mm-hmm. Couldn't even get, get it all finished, but it was really good. Your iced latte there, you said you liked

Brit 53:40

Yeah, I got it again today.

Josh 53:41

Mm-hmm. And I had a cappuccino, which was really nice, so, yeah.

Brit 53:47

Mm-hmm.

Josh 53:48

Just another great place to eat there. There's a lot of good food spots here. There is quite a few, like traditional Bavarian served restaurants here, like where they serve traditional Bavarian foods that aren't nearly as popular as like some of the restaurants that we've listed.

Brit 54:06

Yeah. Yeah.

Josh 54:08

Mm-hmm.

Brit 54:08

no. And like we tried some Bavarian food.

Josh 54:12

Yeah. We've tried some, like you said, the, the brat wurst, the,

Brit 54:16

the pretzels,

Josh 54:17

the pretzel that mac and cheese, some of the, the salmon dishes, stuff like that. Mm-hmm. And some of'em have been really good. Um. But it just hasn't, it probably a combination of us not feeling well and just kind of at this point of the trip we didn't get to explore that more and we just didn't, didn't have enough time because of certain things,

Brit 54:37

No, for sure. I also think that the iced latte scene here is kind of tricky, uh, based on that story that you said. I, I think that it's not common for people to order iced lattes. However, there are a couple of places that do serve them. I just ordered cappuccinos or what was it, espresso, macchiatos. Mm-hmm. At places. And those were delicious. So, I mean, you can't go wrong. The coffee isn't bad. Mm-hmm. It's not bad here. It's just not my typical every morning ice latte that I get.

Josh 55:13

Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, we were just not able to get some things that we wanted to. And we had, in the previous two locations, we weren't in our research able to find any English spoken yoga classes that we could do, And we're in another country that doesn't primarily speak English, so it's just something that we couldn't find. Yeah. So that kind of affects also how we operate. But we were able to shop, we went to a couple different stores just for things that we needed now that we were this far on our trip, like some shampoo, some groceries, stuff like that. And that was pretty easy to navigate. Like I said, there's an Aldi here, which I think is originally from Germany.

Brit 55:55

Mm-hmm.

Josh 55:56

Um, which makes sense. So it was nice to have a, a friendly store sign that, uh, we've been to before.

Brit 56:03

the DM store. We got all of our supplies that we needed, that we were missing. Mm-hmm. So that was a really nice store. Mm-hmm. I liked that.

Josh 56:14

we walked by that, uh, like the political demonstration in Munich. So I mean, that was nice to see like people, um, exercising their freedom of speech, you know, their rights to gather.

Brit 56:27

Mm-hmm.

Josh 56:28

I'm just trying to think of what we haven't kind of already touched on

Brit 56:32

Yeah, I mean, I think we touched on a lot of it. There might be some things that we've missed that we can come back to in another episode if it comes up. Mm-hmm. I am curious. Can you envision yourself here or us here?

Josh 56:48

I think, I think Germany needs to be revisited.

Brit 56:52

Mm-hmm.

Josh 56:53

For us to kind of say like, oh, for sure. Like we just need to look into where, more specifically, kind of like Belgium, both of us are like, yeah, like this can go, higher on our list where Germany something, it's like, ah, we probably need to come back or be in a different city maybe. Mm-hmm. To really determine that, you know, like we mentioned for Belgium and as far as our criteria, location is huge. So it could just be this city and Augsburg is wonderful, I just don't know if this place fits us. There just wasn't also a lot of things that really peaked us a ton. You know, there wasn't enough of that draw. Mm-hmm. Or that feeling of oh, like this is super. Interesting. that'll keep us like, drawn in for a really long time.

Brit 57:46

Yeah, no, I agree. I think that, I've said this before, but I think that usually we find ourselves having that feeling within the first, at least two days. Mm-hmm. And even though we didn't get to explore Augsburg until the fourth day and I was sick and, you know, you weren't feeling well and, and all of these things were kind of against us. Mm-hmm. However, I still think that we would've had that feeling mm-hmm. If it was there. Yeah. And we, we haven't had that feeling. Mm-hmm. So I, I don't think this is the place. Not that there's really anything wrong with Augsburg. Mm-hmm. But I just don't, I don't see us here. No, I don't. I think it's a really beautiful city. Yeah. I think that there's tons of options for things to do. Mm-hmm. Places to eat, things to enjoy. Mm-hmm. Uh, but it's just not us. And I also think that we should come back to Germany because Germany is huge, massive, and we are just exploring this one little city. And there's so much more mm-hmm. Than just the city in Germany. Yeah. So I think that we should come back and explore. Mm-hmm. Um, now when that is or where to go, we, I would have no idea. Yeah. But yeah, those are just my thoughts initially.

Josh 59:13

Yeah, for sure. I mean, like all the countries we've been to so far, we've talked about different cities in them. So this was just one that we had picked that. Looked intriguing enough for us to put into this trip. And then also as far as public transportation wise, it was a convenient spot as well. So yeah, all that came into play. But no, I think after you saying that, like I totally agree this isn't the spot specifically. Mm-hmm. It could be a million other places in Germany.'cause we just basically these few blocks that we've explored here. Yeah, it's, it's time to just keep looking. But I, but I, I do think as far as someone who might want to vacation here, it'd be a great spot to come for a couple days. You'll be able to find some great food. You'll be able to walk around and there's, you know, some. Uh, I think there's like an art gallery or two. There's some great architecture around here. You could be, you could be entertained for a couple days for sure. On a nice vacation trip.

Brit 1:00:17

Yeah, I agree. And even if you're staying in Munich, maybe take a day trip to Augsburg. It's really not that hard.

Josh 1:00:24

No, no. Some of the direct trains that they occasionally have is like 20 minutes. If it's got some stops, it's like 35 maybe.

Brit 1:00:33

Yeah. I mean, we were wasted and we figured it out. So if we can do it drunk, you can, you can do it sober.

Josh 1:00:40

Mm-hmm. It's also a great place if you wanna go to Oktoberfest to stay. Yeah. Um, it was very easy to navigate. I'm sure it's cheaper mm-hmm. To stay here than it is in Munich in a lot of places. I mean, it won't be as direct as obviously staying in Munich, but if you don't always want to be around all that action mm-hmm. It's a great spot.'cause we hardly recognized any of the Oktoberfest activities from here in Augsburg. I mean, we got, we got on the train and there was people dressed up, ready to go. But other than that, at 8:00

Brit 1:01:15

AM chugging beers

Josh 1:01:16

right at 8:00 AM chugging beers, locals at 8:00 AM and they're lederhosen and dirndl drinking beers on the train. But, um. But yeah, I mean, it wasn't like Augsburg was packed with people because of Oktoberfest. It was wide open. Hardly was able to realize that anything was going on

Brit 1:01:36

yeah. Yeah.

Josh 1:01:37

So a nice quiet city for that.

Brit 1:01:39

Also, this Airbnb is fantastic.

Josh 1:01:41

Love this. It's so cute. Would

Brit 1:01:43

definitely recommend this Airbnb. Mm-hmm. If you wanna know, uh, where we're staying, just DM us. Mm-hmm. And we'll send you the info for this Airbnb specifically.

Josh 1:01:53

Mm-hmm. Yeah, for sure. Anything else you wanna say about Augsburg or the trips so far? Any tips, anything that you think we've missed?

Brit 1:02:02

Um, I just really appreciate you taking care of me when I was sick and, bearing with me during that time and I just love and appreciate you and yeah, that's all

Josh 1:02:14

I love and appreciate you.

Brit 1:02:15

So next episode we will be talking about where we might want to travel to in February. We also might have two different options of where to travel to, and then we will let listeners vote on where we go. So you will get a say in where we go, which is really fun and exciting. We'll keep voting open for a while, but we're not sure how that works right now. So we'll figure it out and get back to you. Make sure to subscribe and follow along on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.@wsmhtravels. Also our website is up and running. It is wsm h travels.com.

Josh 1:03:03

Yeah. And if while listening or interacting with us on social media, you have any tips or places you wanna recommend to us, please reach out. Leave us a comment, let us know.

Brit 1:03:16

Thank you so much for listening. Until next time.