Munich has been one of my favourite cities, more because of what we did than what we saw in the short amount of time we got in the city.

This is the town hall.  Believe it or not but this is the 'new' hall.  The old hall is actually newer but only because it was rebuilt.

A brave Bavarian soldier with his unimpressed lass.

The government buildings. It looks like a glass house because the glass was meant to represent transparency after the events of WWII. However, there are three levels underground...

This is what made Munich so good. We went on a bike tour which was great fun (and the bikes were very retro).  The tour ended in the English Gardens which have a fast flowing river. The whole group jumped in the river, freezing but huge fun!  To top it off we got rained on on the bike back and warmed up with a pint of the best beer I have ever drunk in the beer garden. Best experience on tour yet!  The picture above is of surfers in the gardens, the portion of river we went down was a little more tame :)

Almost as good was white water rafting on the way back into Austria.  It was still raining on us but it was nonetheless a great time.  We got thrown around and soaked :) Although, it was a little tame given what I was expecting.

The next stop was two nights in a special Contiki hostel in Hopfgarten.  It's been a cruisey day, we went paragliding this afternoon which was outstanding!  Beautiful views, and we even got to do a bit of swooping and diving.  Contiki stopover also means Contiki party, so I had a good time getting loose with the 'tight, white and bright' theme, ugh!  Always provides for some entertaining costumes.

This is the hill I ran off to get started paragliding.  It was gorgeous.