Ah Germany...even sweeter when it took so much to arrive.
In all, our trip consisted of this:
A walk from our perfect little apartment in capri to the port (last Italian gelato of the trip in hand)
A (much nicer) boat ride from Capri to Naples
A walk from the port in Naples to the train station (walking? You ask?- yes...we're running out of money, remember?)
A long wait in the train station pretending to eat mcdonalds food so we could sit in their chairs...
A train ride up nearly the length of Italy from Naples to Milan. Overnight in a 4 person 'couchette' with two guys
A train ride from fashionable Milan to Zurich
A walk around Zurich and a grocery store lunch for a lot of money
A train ride from expensive Zurich to Romanshorn (I had no idea where either, don't worry) through beautiful Swiss alps
A ferry ride with some friendly german newlyweds across Bodensee to Friedrichshafen
A train ride on a tiny train from Friedrichshafen to Langenargen
A short car ride (with supermarket detour) with our friend Andi's mom to our apartment here!
Total? 29 hours of travel. Wow.
So! Now we are here enjoying the beautiful fall weather, the lake, the cute cute towns around the giant lake (central europe's third largest), and riding our bikes to the towns and to the apple festival we attended today!
Now, you might ask "they keep talking about 'no money, no money' so how are they doing things and having so much fun?!" well!! We are the masters of improvisation and creativity is how! We have created everything that we need with what we have or what at can buy at the grocery store for cheap!
For instance...
We don't have a tv here, but we watched a movie on my iPod tonight on YouTube with Internet 'borrowed' from some sweet person nearby who doesn't lock their Internet!
We are missing the storytelling festival back home, but have no fear! We created our own here (again) with youtubed storytellers. We opened the window for the outdoor effect, bundled up in a blanket, and listened and laughed all night!
No radio either... Solution? Radio application on iPod hooked up to speaker on portable DVDplayer and podcasts!! Now we can listen to all the car talk, wait wait don't tell me, and weekend edition that we want!!
This has happened all through the trip!
Tours at museums and churches? Who needs em? We researched things ourselves, copied them down and read them at the appropriate location!
We've made cheap as dirt restaurant quality food, picnics, music, art, travel guides, made our own games, everything!
We even made our own Oktoberfest! We decided that it would cost too much to get to Munich and stay there and get back. So we made decorations, played music, created an Oktoberfest game (with buckets and shower curtain rings) and laughed our faces off. I made german food for the occasion: brats in rolls with grainy mustard, sweet and sour red cabbage with apples, german fried potatoes and Brussels sprouts, and chewy sour cherry black forest oat bars! And get this... The entire meal, everything, came out to €3. total. That is it! Yipee!
So as I leave you on this chilly german night, I say 'who needs to buy it?' who needs premade, preassembled, preplanned fun? We have more fun making our own trip, we laugh harder and enjoy it more when we create it ourselves. Handmade fun, handmade food, handmade trip, handmade love on a handmade honeymoon. And you can't get more perfect than that. (that isn't to say we don't enjoy a good night out every now and then though....) ;)
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