Day 38 – Munich

We caught the tram to the station in Innsbruck only to find that, shock horrow, our train was delayed by 15 minutes! The surprise expressed by the locals is a sign of how rarely this happens. It didn’t really affect us it just meant we will see 15 minutes less of Munich.

We had a lot of things to sort out when we got here and we started by booking all of our trains up to Brussels. Unfortunately there were no couchettes left for that journey so we will be spending the night in a normal seat – proper backpacker style.

After this we did washing and booked up our accommodation in Berlin and Brussels – not much left now! Internet was by far the cheapest yet at 80 cents per hour.

By this time we were pretty hungry so headed towards Marianplatz – the city’s main square – for something to eat. There were plenty of restaurants just none in our price range. We did however have a taster of some of Munich’s sights and very nice they are too! The beautiful Rathaus dominates the main square even thought the main tower was, not unusually for us as a building of interest, covered in scaffolding. We also passes the Hofbrauhaus, Munich’s most famous beer hall – we will definitely visit there again. We also passed the city palace  surrounded by very expensive shops and car dealerships such as Bentley, Lambourghini and Aston Martin. We definitely weren’t going to eat around there!

In the end we headed back towards our hotel only to find that the business district only ended about one block away from the hotel so we had come back to where we started! Finally we found an interesting Oriental restaurant which was empty when we went in but sooned filled up with locals – always a good sign – who also helped us decipher the menu as the waiter could not speak a single word of English. I had Thai Rat-curry which I really hope was chicken red curry and not rat. I have my suspicions. It was very nice though.

I really like Munich a lot, it has a really nice relaxed and friendly feel and displays the German demand for cleanliness and efficiency, two things which definitely are not bad!