Landshut and its possibilities

There are a lot of things you can do in the lower bavarian capital city, but also the cities around Landshut offer a lot of opportunities to travel around and see many great places :-)
So first of all Landshut. It has a really beautiful city centre with a lot of cafés, bars, restaurants and clubs. You can go shopping there, have a nice and cheap :-) beer or coffee in the centre or at the Isar River side and enjoy your time :-)
During the week there are some parties going on. On Thursdays there is "Studies Night" at "Trixi Schneider" in the centre, which is in my opinion the best Club in Landshut :-) On Tuesdays you always have a party at the "Wohnheim Kneipe", which is the party area in the student's accommodations. Also very popular amongst all students is the "Kitchen party", which might take place every night...depends on your mood :-) And one of the best parties are the "Winter- and Sommerfest" at the University. All the different student organizations organize one party in the summer semester and one in the winter semester in the University. We are allowed to occupy one big area in one of the University buildings for one night :-) All the rooms are emptied out in order to place the bars, music and dancing area there. After the party the student organizations have to clean everything and prepare the rooms again, because in the morning lectures start again :-) And this is not the only "special" party we students have. Once a year there is a student party called "Night of the Profs" in "MeaMea", which is a club in the CCL, the City center Landshut (shopping centre in the city). To this party we invite some professors who are then allowed to be DJ's for this evening :-) That's real fun!

During daytime, when you don't have to study, you can visit the "Burg Trausnitz", which is the castle in Landshut. During summertime they have the beer garden open there and you can also visit some goats :-) and when you are very lucky you might also see some goat babies :-)
If there are some hot days coming up, which is quite usual in bavaria during summertime, you have the "Gretlmühle" for cooling off :-) But this lake I have already mentioned in the post about the University of Applied Sciences...so enough about this :-)

Over the year there are two fairs in Landshut, the so-called "Dult". The "Bartlmädult" takes place around the 24th of August and the spring Dult is sometime in the middle of April. I have only been to the spring Dult yet, but it is a lot of fun there with good food and roller coasters :-)

Landshut is not only nice during summertime, also when the winter is coming the city tries everything to get the people out of their houses :-) The bars and cafés in the centre offer "Glühwein", which is comparable to "Glöggi", and put some heaters outside so you can sit there and usher in Christmas time :-) Then in the end of November the Christmas markets start and you have two different ones in Landshut. One is called the "Pyramide" and this is more or less the Christmas market for the "younger" generation :-) Next to the CCL they build up a christmas pyramid. You can buy Glühwein and listen to Club music, which is really awkward in the beginning, but then again it is something different and that makes it special. The other Christmas market is more like a traditional one, where you can buy winter clothes and all the common stuff :-)
The STUV, which is the students representation, usually organizes a skiing event at the beginning of the year or in the beginning of the spring semester. When I took part there 2years ago we went skiing for a whole weekend to Kitzbühel, which was incredible :-)
And the prices for such trips are always more than fair as these trips are supported financially by the STUV. For this trip they organized buses, which started at the University and  also stopped at some other spots in the city to pick up everyone. Then we drove to the skiing region. Last year, they organized the whole event together with some other Universities in Bavaria and they planned skiing competitions between the universities. I could not join this event, but what I have heard from the others this must have been a lot of fun :-)
So I hope you got a little idea about Landshut and what is going on there.

Stay tuned - I will soon let you know what you can experience around Landshut :-)

See you!

Katharina