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I spent the Spring break of 2004 in Germany with my History 104 class. It was awesome.
 | The airport! Why can't ours be this cool? |
 | The Karlstor, a gate from the wall that surrounded Munich a long long time ago. |
 | Taxis are always cheap domestic cars. The difference is that Germany's domestics are Mercedes, Audi, and VW! |
 | The Frauenkirche, a huge cathedral. |
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 | If you look closely you'll see little busts at the top of the columns. I think they're saints "holding up the church." |
 | This is the Neue Rathaus, or in English the New Town Hall. It's 'new' because it's only ~200 years old, unlike the Alt Rathaus. |
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 | This is an art museum. See the two types of brick? After bombings in WWII, they intentionally repaired it with a different color. |
 | This is a picture looking up from the lobby of the modern art museum, which I didn't spend too much time in. |
 | Nice parking job! |
 | Hangin' out in our tiny room in the hostel. |
 | The world-famous Münchner Hofbräuhaus! |
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 | Frauenkirche again. |
 | Neue Rathaus again. |
 | Lots of yummy food at the Viktualienmarkt. |
 | Silver-painted guy kind of like in the movie Eurotrip. |
 | "Am anfang shuff Gott Himmel und Erde" - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Kind of surprising in a European science/industry museum. |
 | I'm pretty sure I've driven one of these in a computer game. |
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 | That's a computer. Crazy, eh? |
 | Otto von Bismarck. |
 | Once upon a time there was a swastika inside that wreath. |
 | Police headquarters, once upon a time Gestapo. |
 | "Kurt Eisner, der am 8 November 1918 die Bayerische Republik Ausrief, Nachmaliger ministerpräsident des volkstaates Bayern, wurde an dieser Stellen an 21 Februar 1919 ermordet." |
 | This musik room in a university used to be a private office of Hitler. Weird. |
 | Mini Cooper! |
 | Arbeit Macht Frei. Yeah right. |
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 | Oberammergau. |
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 | Olympic park from the 1972 olympics. |
 | The Neue Rathaus a long time ago, in a photo in a WWII museum. |
 | Equipment used to measure people and their arianness, I guess. |
 | The world-famous hofbräuhaus! |
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 | Dunkelbier schmeckt mir gut. |
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 | An actual BMW Isetta. |
 | You may recognize it as the car Steve Urkel drove. |
 | Another Mini. |
 | One of the cutest cars ever produced, IMHO. |
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 | Smartcars are so small that you can perpendicularly park them where other cars must parallel park. |
 | Goodbye, Germany! |
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