The Erdinger Weissbier Brewery Tour

If you decide to stay in the Munich area for a while longer and/or decide to drive in your trip across southern Germany, it would be fun to take a tour of the Erdinger Weissbier Brewery.

For 8 Euros per person, you can take a tour of the brewery. If you can arrive 20 minutes before the scheduled tour time, you can see a film of the brewery in English as well.

The tour is followed by the classic Bavarian brunch (Frühschoppen); you can enjoy all Erdinger beer varieties, soft petzels, delicious Weisswürste and sweet mustard to your heart´s content in a cosy, calm and civilized environment. You will also take home a souvenir photo of yourself at the brewery´s brewhouse with a huge Erdinger beer stein (say "frei Bier").

Now Erding has another claim to fame. The winner of this year´s Germany Topmodel Sara Nuru is born and bred in Erding

Favorite TV Shows

My recent favorite television television shows and series:

-Mad Men
-Medium
-Project Runway
-Secret Diary of a Call Girl

"Wow" Travel Moments

The following list is a work in progress.

Some of my "wow" travel moments have been:
-Saw Botticelli´s "Primavera" in person for the first time
-Visited Stonehenge after reading Thomas Hardy´s "Tess of the d'urbervilles"
-Saw flocks of puffins across the Norwegian Sea, on the way to Andenes.

The following is a very interesting National Geographic video on puffins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoHD2GxcBMw

I would love to visit the puffin colonies on Mykines, the Faroe Islands and on Isle of May, Scotland someday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcsVs7S7nkg

Ron in Rome! / The Local / Spiegel Online International

This site makes news from Germany accessible to you in bite size format:

http://www.thelocal.de/

Spiegel Online International gives you in-depth analysis on news from and beyond Germany:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/

Someone please tell me similar sites for at least Munich and Berlin:

http://www.roninrome.com/

SeatGuru

This is the site for you if you are an airline buff or a very frequent flyer:

http://www.seatguru.com/

Public Transport in Germany

Public Transport in Germany is fantastic. The Deutsche Bahn website is your ultimate one-stop public transport route finder in Germany. Many ticket types offered by the Deutsche Bahn will allow you same-day unlimited travels on all modes of public transport within a given public transport network. Traveling within Germany by public transport is as good as or not better than by car.

Let Your Style Shine

Many fashion haters say no one dresses like the characters from Sex and the City do in real life. Well, fashionwise, Michelle Obama is like Miranda Hobbes and Carrie Bradshaw rolled into one. Even Hilary Clinton wears flower pins now.

It is funny to read Americans writing about their concern on the way they dress and look in Paris and even the rest of France. The conventional wisdom is that French people snub Americans dressed in sneakers, jeans and/or shorts. Well, many Europeans wear shorts these days. I have seen French men vacationing in tennis shorts and multi-color socks. Interestingly, I have not seen American men make such a memorable sartorial statement yet.

I am pretty sure Europeans dress whatever way that pleases them even when they visit New York.