That’s right everybody, I’ve got no tours for a week!  Last week I was sick…and I still am, just not as bad I think.  Sunday I had a Salzburg tour & I dragged Petra along to join in my misery…not that it was a bad day, it was absolutely beautiful weather…and I only had 6 people on the tour.  (a couple from Houston, 3 guys from Atlanta, and one lady from NY…well, mostly Miami…well…currently lives in Atlanta, do I want her life story?  no thanks…she’s way too ditzy to be interesting)….anyways….

So yeah, I nearly collapsed mid-day on Sunday, but the tour went well…even had pretty good tips.  We had lunch at the Augustiner Salzburg, which is far superior imo to Munich’s Augustiner…which shouldn’t even be compared as they have no relation.

Last night we went to the Oktoberfest, which was well…good fun, but I need to eat more before we get stuck at a table…unfortunately we were in a group, so I didn’t have much choice.

I should be adding pictures and a bit more this week despite not having any tours….because we’re doing touristy things ourselves.  For example, yesterday before the Oktoberfest outing we went over to Sealife….it was nice, for about an hour…luckily we had a buy one get one coupon, so we didn’t pay full price…

Coming up this week we plan on spending a day at the spa…and probably have a day in a salt mine too.  We may stop over to the Oktoberfest again for some food…but I doubt we’ll go back to get drunk and go on rollercoasters again!

Ok, maybe that’s an exaggeration.  However, it certainly feels like it.  In the last few days I have gotten a chance to catch Nick Lindman a few times to play an online game called Project Torque…which is free and kinda fun, I like racing games and this one is where you can play up to 8 people at a time from all over hell…so…well…I mentioned free, right?

Anyways, here’s the link to that:  Project Torque

I noticed the other day that I can’t put a larger picture in here without making this page look REALLY wrong…so I gotta figure out something with that, maybe I’ll have to re-size anything I want on here, which limits me quite a damn bit, because well…laziness does kick in at a certain point…that’s the point, typically.

I’ve been doing stats on my tours lately, actually typing them into excel that is and figuring out where all my tourists are from…I’m almost done with that, so I’ll have 6 months of data on there anyways.

The other day I had two canadians on my city tour, I was sicker than a dog…and I think they could tell, unfortunately.  So, well…they still had a good tour I think, but may have been worried that I’d die on’em. 

I’ve already called in about tomorrow…I thought last night that, ok, friday I’ll do another test on the system and go out there and see what I’m made out of….but today my chest hurts, I’m coughing like hell, and my nose started running again…it’s not as physically painful as it was a couple days ago, but…umm…getting people sick on their vacation probably isn’t a good thing either.

Oh well, we can’t always be running around with dozens of people from all over the world without getting something from one of them (yeah, I’m blaming the tourists, they’re an easy target).

I should have had a Neschwanstein tour on Saturday…then a Salzburg tour today…but with my throat hurting, eyes burning, and nose running non-stop…I think I’d scare away the tourists, besides being in pain.  You know how it is when each and every joint in your body lets you know it’s there?  Yeah….lovely.

Looking at the weather forecast, I’ve been thinking of what I’m gonna wear with my lederhosen for oktoberfest, as it’ll be a tad bit nipply.  So the other day (ok, probably a week ago now) I was looking at a couple places that sold leather jackets that go with the lederhosen.  They appear to be around €70-80 for what I want.  I can use the jacket along with the lederhosen for tour guiding sometimes…so that’ll work.  I should wear my lederhosen a couple more times before it gets too cold.

Well, I believe I have a sore throat/cough that could definately get worse, anyways.

Aside from that, I’ve had a couple of pretty good tours this week.  Today’s city tour was nice, I only had 6 people…so that’s always a good thing, well…not for the company, but for me.  All americans, but with one girl who’s been living in Munich for a few months.

On Wednesday I had a tour to Neuschwanstein that went great, nearly perfect….then yesterday I had, well…a half-way decent group, but one guy…who…well…was possibly the most annoying man I have ever met.  He was from Seattle…I’m gonna stay well away from Seattle for a while.  He just would NOT shut up…no matter what…his wife could have helped, but I think she was just happy that he had someone else to bore the shit out of. 

At this point I’m still playing with the features of the blog software that I’m using and am a bit unsure of how it’ll look….so any feedback could be useful.

The Wies’n starts in 8 days…here’s a pic of last year:

So umm…I think my stomach is already hating me.