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Valk. Go to a place called Garmisch-Partenkirchen. There is an "American Armed Forces Hotel" there. It's called the "Edelweiss Hotel Lodge and Resort." Make your reservations MONTHS in advance. Especially if you want to try to do a holiday. Things to do there: Zugspitze (highest peak in Germany, no safety ropes so you can actually stand on the apex if you want. Or enjoy a nice beer on top of the world.) 3 methods of going up; ski lift (pick this one) train (boring as gently caress) and hike (idiot). Lake Eibsee: Swim or just check it out. Lots of places to jump in like with a rope swing. Neuschwanstein Castle: The Disney Land Castle nestled in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler's Hideout (Eagle's Nest): Its a lot different than you'd imagine, and it's a restaurant now, but there is a lot of history there and the view is amazing. I don't know because it was loving foggy. Salt mines tour: Seriously loving fun, and seriously worth it. They have these cool ways to get down the salt mines which is essentially going down a giant slide. Sommerroddlebahn: Basically ice luge stuff except summer and like a roller coaster you control the speed of. FUN AS gently caress Partnach Gorge: The water is this blue we associate with kool-aid in America. You'll be familiar with glacial blue waters I am sure being from Finland. Peaches: Bar, one of the only main ones for night life. There's a strip club right off post as is the norm. Blacklisted as is the norm. Military base right next to the hotel, so you can fill up on gas if you drive (I think you don't have to worry about fuel rations that way). Also has a PX ideal for that location (mountainous. Lots of skiing stuff). The Edelweiss also offers tours, bike rentals, and other types of stuff. Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a beautiful place not even an hour south of Munich. If I could live anywhere in the world, and not have to worry about anything and just retire, it would be here. I love this place and you will too. The benefit is that the American hotel makes it super easy to have a sense of security (they check ID at the entrance so you can't even drive on the premises). If you have questions, ask, I literally did so many remotes there I can't even remember. You might be from the snow and poo poo, but this place is going to be different. Soulex fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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Soulex posted:Valk. If you're 200+ pounds, you need to try to moderate how much fun you're having, because you will royally gently caress people up without expecting to do so. Can confirm the beauty of the place down there, though I've never stayed there for any extended period of time. Now that I live in Munich, I'lll probably take a trip or two down there soonish.
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Thanks, definitely! Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been on the backburner plan, and we're considering doing it one week late-winter early-spring. It's one of those things I don't think our 8 year old would appreciate, so we're planning of shipping his rear end to Finland to be with my mom for a bit during that time and do more active adult oriented travel.
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I've never been to Army Italy. Is Vicenza overrun with Joes on the weekends? The rest of Northern Italy and southern Switzerland is gorgeous, especially the Lake Como area.
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The couple hotspot bars are. Other than that, the city and surroundings are pretty free of any american tint. It’s rare to run into americans at restaurants and such, but it isn’t impossible. However, this isn’t an ”army town” by any measure. Luckily. Place owns for history and art nerd.
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Seconding the salt mines. I did those when I was in Salzburg, Austria and they were pretty cool.
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Vahakyla posted:Thanks, definitely! Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been on the backburner plan, and we're considering doing it one week late-winter early-spring. It's one of those things I don't think our 8 year old would appreciate, so we're planning of shipping his rear end to Finland to be with my mom for a bit during that time and do more active adult oriented travel. There’s a shitload for kids to do there, and Edelweiss has baby sitting or worst comes to worst. Duzzy Funlop posted:If you're 200+ pounds, you need to try to moderate how much fun you're having, because you will royally gently caress people up without expecting to do so. Also yes. I’ve never flown off but you can fly off and get hurt. Most importantly, you’re an expat living in Munich? What do you do?
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Er ist ein Deustchlander
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Zugspitze is awesome, I was there back in August. There's a deal where you get a regional bahn ticket from München + a ticket for the cog railway that takes you up the mountain for a reasonable amount of money.
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Oh yeah. That reminds me. Bayern pass. Buy a Bayern Pass and you can take the train pretty much anywhere in Bavaria. Those dudes are on point with train times too.
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Just nearly made it 12 months with no phone calls in the middle of the night....
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Mustang posted:Just nearly made it 12 months with no phone calls in the middle of the night.... nice job jinxing it
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Garmisch is amazing. While at group I somehow convinced my leadership to send me to PLTCE 4 times. In addition to what was mentioned there is a community pool in town that it is amazing and cost like two euros to get in. There is also a little memorial up on the mountain directly behind PLTCE that is really cool. However you will need to worry about ration cards to get gas on post.
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The strip club in Garmisch is not great from what I can remember.
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Mustang posted:Just nearly made it 12 months with no phone calls in the middle of the night.... Post username combo
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:The strip club in Garmisch is not great from what I can remember. Never went there, but heard plenty of stories. So yeah, Valk just fyi Italian fuel rations =/= German fuel rations. I am sorry if you know, I just am aware of too many people that got caught out because they didn't know it wasn't something like our USAEUR driver's license and it could be all throughout the EU. If you want to do something less touristy and go skiing/snowboarding on your way to the Czech Republic, stop by Grosser Arber. It is the best place I ever snowboarded, and has an awesome schnitzel called an "Arber Schnitzel" and I ate two once because I was fat and hungry. Anyways, because it's in a weird place, you get some snow past April, and it's a different type of snow, almost like a soft hail. Like you are snowboarding or skiing on dippin dots. Prague is badass, been there a few times. Absinthe is fun, but I wouldn't recommend doing it a bunch. I was used to Albanian moonshine and this stuff still kicked me in the teeth. Drive everywhere man. It costs a little bit more, but you get to see so much it is nuts. Also, if you ever make it to Florence, let me know. I have a bunch of family there and while I won't take care of you like family because that's weird, I will be able to give you a good idea on what to do/where to go/how to do it in that city. The only reason I'm not trying to live there is because I love the mountains too much, so my wife and I are eyeing a place like Livorno or Bolzano.
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Lmao. Not a week after they’re married, my specialist buddy’s new bride just posted about how she’s’ loved it for years’ and wants to sell...senegance. Good luck my enlisted man
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Lmao. Not a week after they’re married, my specialist buddy’s new bride just posted about how she’s’ loved it for years’ and wants to sell...senegance. Good luck my enlisted man As much as I hate such bullshit that relies on stupid social pressure to turn a tiny profit, it's no surprise that (mostly) women married to military members somewhat often latch onto a business model that is transportable and can exploit social ties to make money. Turns out that it already sucks for women to try to make the same wages as men, and then they're stuck either moving to the tempo of the husband's PCS timelines, and thus taking jobs they're overqualified, or just choosing to live apart for extended periods of time to make more money and professional development. I've been on both sides of that calculus, and it sucks either way. Still, I'm entirely sure my spouse would just go unemployed and do volunteer work before she sold that crap.
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Lmao. Not a week after they’re married, my specialist buddy’s new bride just posted about how she’s’ loved it for years’ and wants to sell...senegance. Good luck my enlisted man Don't know what it is but a quick google and it looks like a pyramid scheme.
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Lmao. Not a week after they’re married, my specialist buddy’s new bride just posted about how she’s’ loved it for years’ and wants to sell...senegance. Good luck my enlisted man I know of a ton that have tried doing that bs and a few that made a ton. They were the hot and or popular enlisted wives. Makes sense it happens a lot with military wives, its like a working from home internet job almost. A unicorn, doesn't exist...except for a few.
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(She’s military too.) I find mlms distasteful on principle because even if you’re successful, you probably ruined innumerable friendships to get there. If.
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I had a neighbor who seemed more or less successful at selling lotion and perfume and makeup to people. It helped that she was pretty in a way that let her go 8 different ways with makeup, depending on audience, and also she had vast social networks based on childcare stuff and church and having parents nearby who could watch her kid while she went and sold stuff to friends. Plus, she was brutally ruthless when it came to pushing a sale, even on a person who said they had a skin condition such that they only used prescribed skin meds or similar, which led to explaining how homeopathy or whatever the gently caress lotion could fix this. gently caress MLM, it either financially fucks people or turns them into annoying little monsters.
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While I hate MLMs, I find it often hard to hate the seller itself. It's too often that it's a desperate person in a stretch of long unemployment or lovely social situation or something similar. That kind of dastardly sellers that you described must be the roaring minority, since most sellers are just way sadder and probably don't sell much. One of the loving saddest forms of Facebook is to see a person who constantly posts about being unemployed or struggling to find work anywhere for a long while, then posts "I finally found a job!" that people congratulate them on, then couple days after it's some sort of sales pitch for lotions or makeup or some drat garden seeds. The person is just a mark, they don't even realize how horribly they are being abused by the company, and the denial can probably keep them blind to the lack of profits for a long time.
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I wonder what my life would be like if I married that stripper.
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I’d feel like a real dipshit if I, as a non long-tabber, wore a green beret around Benning. On the other hand, gently caress you if you’re still in.
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In the late 90s my dad was one of 11 dudes wearing a green beret on Benning and got in an argument with the post commander and CSM about letting SF dudes wear them. They were all School of the America’s dudes. The green beret for sfab thing is just a rumor right now though, nothing official
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There’s a change.org petition to stop the issuance of the green beret to SFAB with 56k signatures. lol imagine giving a poo poo
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:There’s a change.org petition to stop the issuance of the green beret to SFAB with 56k signatures. now i really want it happen
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SFABs started being marketed as some way to be top-dog fixing Afghanistan, etc. Then they swore it would lead to promotions. Then there was a message about enlisted bonuses to volunteer for SFABs. Now berets? "Gee, why don't people want to sign up to go be in small units in hosed up countries we've been loving with for over a decade, training local forces?" asks some senior person, probably. edit: Holy poo poo, after reading a little bit about that, people really like to sperg out on the exact shade of green (SFAB is a bit different, I guess) and how the color of SF green berets changed over time based on who was manufacturing them and all sorts of dumb names for different shades of green. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Oct 29, 2017 |
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#004225 Berets
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Hey there troops, let's be careful not to defame the Army around these parts. Some of us still serve proudly, and some of this thread has been very disrespectful to an institution which I hold close to my heart as a patriot. -Your Battle Buddy 1-509 Infantry Regiment "Geronimo" 11B1P “I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” - General George S. Patton
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I'm going to go ahead and guess you got out because you couldn't keep up with the big dogs. Typical whiner, probably got a med board for hurt fee fees. -Your Battle Buddy 1-509 Infantry Regiment "Geronimo" 11B1P “I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” - General George S. Patton I LICK APE PUSSY posted:gently caress your institution
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I got out because I like to smoke weed more than I like to rake leaves.
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Enjoy your weed, hero. I get "high" off some good crossfit! Nothing motivates me more than feeling fit to fight. Hooah? -Your Battle Buddy 1-509 Infantry Regiment "Geronimo" 11B1P “I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” - General George S. Patton
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Your Battle Buddy posted:Hey there troops, let's be careful not to defame the Army around these parts. Some of us still serve proudly, and some of this thread has been very disrespectful to an institution which I hold close to my heart as a patriot. Missing the regimental crest, inauthentic email signature block
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Your Battle Buddy posted:Enjoy your weed, hero. I get "high" off some good crossfit! Nothing motivates me more than feeling fit to fight. Hooah? lmao you paid  for this joke
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The only thing worth "lmao" about around here is how pathetic you all are, bunch of POG leg bitches who couldn't hang, now just sit around and smoke weed and cry about the Army. Get over it. -Your Battle Buddy 1-509 Infantry Regiment "Geronimo" 11B1P “I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” - General George S. Patton Icon Of Sin posted:lmao you paid
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