Gemutlichkeit

Last weekend I visited Germany for the second time in my life, and I must say, I had a grand time. I started the trip in Regensburg, where I stayed with my friend and former colleague Joerg Tessmar and family. Highlights from that trip include:

• Learning how to count in German from 4-year old Sebastian (the little guy in the pic)
  
• Meeting Florian (the really little guy in the pic)
• Kuchlbauer Alte Liebe (maybe the best dark beer I ever had)
• Falling asleep at a pub after a liter of beer
• Lots of pretzels
• Walking across a bridge that is almost 1000 years old
  
• A visit to Dr. Achim Goepferich's lab at the university
  

I then tripped down to Munich, where my friends Kyle and Maureen are living for a few months. Highlights from this visit:

• Viewing the city from atop St. Peter's
• Drinking gluhwein while watching ice skaters (see pic below)
  
• Hofbrauhuas (nuff said)
• Kyle's bicycle tour of Munich
  
• Pancakes by Mo
• Beer and a doughnut at a beer garden

I had a great feeling on my way home Sunday night...perhaps it was gemutlichkeit. Read more about it at Mo's blog (its where I got a lot of these links from).

I'll post some more pics on my Picasa site soon.