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3-29, Saturday, Munich
The two days we just spent (over the weekend) in Munich were great! German Bee got to come with us this time, so it was fun. We actually booked a 3 bed room at our hostel so we could be by ourselves (antisocial) and have a private bathroom (germaphobes). We got there about 8pm, and went completely antisocial, and straight to bed.
When we got up in the morning, we decided to check on a Free City Tour that a company offered. I’m telling you, city walking tours are the best. And this was great, because it was free. We ate a semi-traditional German breakfast with rolls, bread, meat, cheese and fruit and got on our way. The tour started at 10am, so we headed out. Our tour guide was a hockey playing Canadian. No, seriously. All stereotypes aside. How he ended up in Munich, I’ll never know, because he stated that he did still play hockey for Toronto. Interesting…Anyway, he was no German History Masters degree, but he had amazing insight to Munich and the sites. Our started out with us looking at the Neu Rathaus in Marienplatz. Location is totally unneeded, but this is the location of Europe’s #2 Most Overrated Tourist Site-the Glockenspeil. Apparently millions of people flock to watch this thing go off. Here it is on YouTube. After that 15 minutes of nonsense, we proceeded. Again, I won’t go into detail about the tour, but we pasted some amazing 15th, 16th and 17th real and reproduction buildings, rebuilt after WWII. Apparently Hilter was a genius at one thing-he took photographs of Munich before the war so it all could be rebuilt after the war. How’s that for planning?
After our 3 hour tour, we headed back to the Viktualienmarkt to get some fresh fruit and a cutting board which I had been eyeing earlier. Yes, a cutting board, but a very small cutting board. Anyway, we were quite over the crowds and people at the Marienplatz and the Market, so we decided to head to the Schloss Nymphemburg or Royal Palace. This was amazing! It looked exactly like a palace you would see in the new Marie Antionette movie, or Emma or Pride and Prejudice. It was calm, the grounds were extensive and we just walked around until our feet grew tired and we had to head back to the hostel. Here we cleaned up, and headed out to the Hofbrauhaus, the most famous and busy Beer Hall of all of Europe for a pint! We had some great German food, Bavarian Dessert and a beer and called it a night. Of course, we didn’t without getting a great Hard Rock Cafe shirt for my collection!
Oh and the Devil’s revenge? Long story that has to do with this incredibly huge church in Munich that is so big it makes the wind whip around it. Chicken-Lizard things? There is this huge statue of Mary in Marienplatz (hense the name) that is solid gold, and other than total video watch, it is guarded by four charibs. One is trying to kill a chicken thing with a lizard tail that represents poverty or something…like I said,Chicken Lizard thing. Actually, this all came from our tour guide. Good thing this load of crap was free!
Yes, today (Sunday) I successfully completed my SECOND daylight savings time change of the year. Well, almost successful. We were supposed to check out of the Munich hostel (I know, I’m getting a head of myself) at 10am, which we did. And we got to the Tram stop at 10:15, or so we thought. I looked up at the biggest clock in all of Europe (ok, maybe not) and it said 11:10. I was like, that’s not right, “Brother Bee, what time do you have?” He replied, “10:15″ Now, how could the biggest clock in Munich be wrong?? It wasn’t. We had forgotten about Daylight Savings Time, European-style. And we weren’t the only ones. Here is a note on a sticky note written from a guy in the hostel to some people he had apparently met while there:
“Oy! The time changed, so I missed my flight. I’m in Munich for the next week now. Find me if you’re still around.”
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