Munich

What a day. Had things all mapped out when we left Anacortes but have had to adjust plenty. Did that today and we did it well. Basically just walked around downtown and looked at stuff. Had some idea what was there and some idea when to look for it but other than that it was pretty free form. Got tickets for the train trip to Vienna (Wien). If you haven’t been around it, it is easy to get the wrong tickets and get on the wrong train. We haven’t been around it much but hope we get it right when we go on Thursday morning. If not there are lots of cool towns around and maybe they will have a room. The train station was incredible with people coming and going.

From there we went to see the Glockenspiel(sp) at the new town hall go off at 12:00. It did and was fun to watch. Then we went up in the tower and had a good view of the town / area. Val took good photos and I hung on and stayed away from the edge. Got to see the Olympic Village even if we aren’t going to make the trip out there.

Next up was the Hofbrau House. Had lunch and a couple of beers. Both were good. I don’t particularly care for the sauerkraut I have had in the states but his stuff was good with the sausages and beer. Got a picture of a beer maid but not with full steins of beer. Best I could do as I didn’t see any carrying armloads of full beer steins and I didn’t want to stage one.

After that we went to an open air market that starts with a V and has a whole bunch of letters in it, two churches – one beautiful on the inside one beautiful on the outside. Then we walked around and looked at the outside of the Residence (a fancy palace) and the start of Englisher Garten a huge beautiful park that is too big to get around without a bike and no snow.

Planning on going to a couple of castles outside of town tomorrow if we can figure out the train and bus arrangements. If not, there is still plenty to do in Munich that will more than fill another day. Did some laundry tonight and hung close by our room.

Thought for the day for me. When we planned the trip we used Munich because it was cheap to fly to and had a castle close by. At one time we weren't even going to spend a day. It has turned out to be as good as any town I have been to in Europe as far as I'm concerned. What does that tell me?