Munich, Germany
We let ourselves sleep in today since we were exhausted so we slept until 8AM. We had museli (its a mix of oats, dried fruit, nuts, its made with hotwater, and provided by the owner in our kitchen).Then it was right out to the town. It was definitely much chiller here, about 58 and cloudy. The city was very easy to navigate. We saw the famous Viktoulis Market (which means open market)-lots of prepared food vendors, flowers, and meat unprepared for taking home. Then we went on to Marienplatz-open square where we saw St. Peters Church, Town Hall, Glockspiel (a little show with chimes/bell tower/revolving wood figures at the top of the church's bell tower). There were a lot of stores to shop from in this main area--big name stores (Rolex), sport stores, department stores (C&A), Apple store, TKMaxx (which Danielle thought was funny). Most stores were 3-7 floors high-men and women's clothing was always split and then you had accessories on a floor and shoes on another and lingerie, everything had a floor. There were a ton of people spending a lot of money. They must make a lot of money here because it looked like locals dropping hundreds and hundreds of dollars on everyday clothing. We went into C&A, their department store and browsed for a while, ultimately people watched and we also went into TKMaxx--everything seemed very pricey.
We proceed on to the city and saw St. Michael's church and Karls Gate then took a 20 min walk to the English Gardens. It was a huge 8 mile long garden, such a wonderful walk we had together, lots of open space, we could get away from the smokers which there were a lot of in Munich. Haven't people learned it causes cancer?
Meat, cheese, and fresh bread were very popular in Munich. We walked a lot today and had wifi in a few places randomly on the street. We were trying to find a restaurant when an old lady approached us and asked if she could help (she didn't speak much English but enough to get by). She even walked us to the restaurant we were looking for. We thanked her and checked out the menu-it was not what we were feeling and too expensive so once we couldn't see the woman any longer we high tailed it out and went to eat at the market. We had a shrimp hoagie and a tuna wrap which were both excellent! There was a lot of flavor in the condiments, which we didn't know they were, but they were yummy! After lunch we walked to a few more stores and people watched and then back to the apartment (20 min walk).
We grabbed a sandwich and a beer (had to give their beer a shot-we stood in the grocery store for awhile because we didn't know what to get and we just watched locals grab certain kinds and we went with the one that had the most sold-it was like $1.25 for a .5L) to go on our way back for the next train ride and just had some oatmeal for dinner. We were tired and needed showers. Danielle wasn't feeling very well so we took it easy at the apartment. The beer (Hacker-Pschorr, Munchner Dunkel- alcohol was 5%) I thought was actually okay--not too malty, not too many hops, very light. Alex didn't like it at all (check out FB for the beer tasting pics they are hilarious). We listened to Elevation during dinner and get to bed early. Unfortunately during the night, Danielle broke two fevers so she was not feeling great, but better that they broke.
First Impressions:
Lots of smokers, bike lane on sidewalk and separated from the cars which was awesome! The tables outside restaurants and the market are smoking and there are seats but inside its smoke free and standing only with tables, no chairs. Very casual dress, not a lot of English spoken. Most stores we found took cash only, only one we found took credit card. Lots of bakeries/sandwich shops as one. Market was full of flowers, meat to be cooked, spices, grab and go food (much like an outdoor grocery store). The city was very clean, locals spent a lot of money, sections of town more distinctively differentiated--Ritzy Masarati area, scummy train station area, business districts, and residential all distinct. Police were nowhere to be found, lots of construction, people drink beer at any time and all times throughout the day, bathrooms were free-there was an attendant at the bathroom but they looked fairly homeless/begging for money. We could just walk in though and not pay and then at one of the toilets this woman attendant said something underneath her breath as we walked out. There are no microwaves anywhere in Europe.
We proceed on to the city and saw St. Michael's church and Karls Gate then took a 20 min walk to the English Gardens. It was a huge 8 mile long garden, such a wonderful walk we had together, lots of open space, we could get away from the smokers which there were a lot of in Munich. Haven't people learned it causes cancer?
Meat, cheese, and fresh bread were very popular in Munich. We walked a lot today and had wifi in a few places randomly on the street. We were trying to find a restaurant when an old lady approached us and asked if she could help (she didn't speak much English but enough to get by). She even walked us to the restaurant we were looking for. We thanked her and checked out the menu-it was not what we were feeling and too expensive so once we couldn't see the woman any longer we high tailed it out and went to eat at the market. We had a shrimp hoagie and a tuna wrap which were both excellent! There was a lot of flavor in the condiments, which we didn't know they were, but they were yummy! After lunch we walked to a few more stores and people watched and then back to the apartment (20 min walk).
We grabbed a sandwich and a beer (had to give their beer a shot-we stood in the grocery store for awhile because we didn't know what to get and we just watched locals grab certain kinds and we went with the one that had the most sold-it was like $1.25 for a .5L) to go on our way back for the next train ride and just had some oatmeal for dinner. We were tired and needed showers. Danielle wasn't feeling very well so we took it easy at the apartment. The beer (Hacker-Pschorr, Munchner Dunkel- alcohol was 5%) I thought was actually okay--not too malty, not too many hops, very light. Alex didn't like it at all (check out FB for the beer tasting pics they are hilarious). We listened to Elevation during dinner and get to bed early. Unfortunately during the night, Danielle broke two fevers so she was not feeling great, but better that they broke.
First Impressions:
Lots of smokers, bike lane on sidewalk and separated from the cars which was awesome! The tables outside restaurants and the market are smoking and there are seats but inside its smoke free and standing only with tables, no chairs. Very casual dress, not a lot of English spoken. Most stores we found took cash only, only one we found took credit card. Lots of bakeries/sandwich shops as one. Market was full of flowers, meat to be cooked, spices, grab and go food (much like an outdoor grocery store). The city was very clean, locals spent a lot of money, sections of town more distinctively differentiated--Ritzy Masarati area, scummy train station area, business districts, and residential all distinct. Police were nowhere to be found, lots of construction, people drink beer at any time and all times throughout the day, bathrooms were free-there was an attendant at the bathroom but they looked fairly homeless/begging for money. We could just walk in though and not pay and then at one of the toilets this woman attendant said something underneath her breath as we walked out. There are no microwaves anywhere in Europe.
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