Day 16 - The two dots that cost us 300km

So before I explain the two dots thing, I´ll recap the past few days.

Four days ago, we went to Switzerlad. We got a place in Interlaken; it´s a really nice town with lots of activities. It is kind of an extreme sports town like Chamonix, except it´s filled with more tourists and perhaps more opportunities to risk your life. (Which I like) We got in around noon and immediately checked into the Funny Farm hostel, which looked more like a hotel, but had hostel prices, so that was a plus. Then, we crossed the street and walked maybe 30m and then rented four mopeds for each of us. At first, I didn´t really know what I was doing since I hadn´t ridden a moped since I was 12, but then I got the hang of it. We rode around town and through valleys and alongside waterfalls; it was beautiful. And the mopeds were a thrill in and of themselves. We could get up to around 70km/h, and we had some great windy roads to cruise through.

After a couple of hours, Mike and I left Buck and Riley to continue their mopeding adventure as we left to attend our scheduled bungee jumping appointment. We had originally wished to do some skydiving, but it cost around 400 USD to go, so we went with the cheaper bungee jumping option. We did the bungee jumping through a company that actually runs through our hostel called Alpine Raft. They took us on a thirty minute ride up to some mountains, then we took a gondola (one of those suspended cable cars) up to a little area at 1600m elevation. Then, we took a little gondola over a lake and that´s where we jumped out of. It was amazing. The feeling you get when you are falling for a long period of time is indescribable, it´s almost liberating. So that was great.

We met up with Buck and Riley around 10:30pm that night, and we hung out around town for only a little bit since a lot of places closed early. They had continued riding around on mopeds for awhile and saw some sweet landscape of Switzerland while we were gone, and hung out with one of our hostel roommates for a little bit before we met up with them.

The next day, we left for Germany. It was a long trip, about 10 hours. We were intended to head to the town where Riley´s friends live, but we had made a little error in our planning. When we got in to Germany, we waited awhile for our ride before we started asking if we were in the right place. We ran into a really nice guy, and when we explained our situation, he said, ''You made a big mistake. This is Munster, you want Münster!'' These two town names sound exactly alike to our American ears, so we thought this was quite funny. It turned out that we overshot Münster by 300km, and so we wouldn´t get in at a reasonable hour. That´s when we decided to go to Hamburg and then come to Münster today.

We got into Hamburg around 10pm, and then we walked around for awhile trying to get a feel for the city. The main strip, Reperbaun, was full of sex shops and strip clubs, so we walked with tunnel vision until we landed upon a club that had some techno music. We hung out there for awhile, and then headed to the hostel, but before that, we found a gem on the way. We saw a kareokee bar, and a small one at that. The four of us sang ''Come on Eileen'' and then left. We were in there for maybe 10 minutes. We rocked their faces off. The next day we walked around for awhile, saw the harbor, and headed to Münster.

Münster has been awesome. When we got off our bus by Riley´s friend´s place, we started looking for the street. I went on ahead to try to find the street on a longboard, and when I came back, the three other guys were joined by a girl with a map, and a beer in their hands. Apparently, she saw them and thought they needed help finding our place and they needed a beer. We immediatly were impressed by German hospitalitz. That night, we went to this bar and ran into a bunch of nice German-folk. It was a great time talking to interesting people, and walking around the city. Everyone rides bikes, so we almost got smoked by them several times, but other than that, we handled ourselves pretty well as foreigners. After hanging out for awhile, we went back to sleep in awesome beds.

This morning, we had a delicious breakfast and walked around for a little bit. Now, we're headed out to walk around downtown, and then we'll catch a train in a couple of hours to go to Amsterdam. Münster gets a 10 out of 10.