Munich

Famous Munich pretzels and
Sarah's face

What happens when you don't reserve seats on a fairly busy train is you get to sit on the floor in the corridor with your backpacks. We learned this the hard way - but thankfully we got seats after about an hour when some people got off. 

If you are a regular at the State Brewery,
you can get a locker for your beer
mug.

We arrived in Munich Saturday afternoon which turned out to be quite sunny despite the earlier threat of rain clouds. We arrived at H & J's to drop our bags off before heading back into town to see the sites.

B offered to show us around, and he gave us a whirlwind 2 hour tour of Munich city center, which was very good. He took us in a cathedral that had a real skeleton in a glass house decorated with precious stones and stuff. Brings a new meaning to skeletons in your closet... We also saw the state brewery, which was for sure one of the most lively and cheery places we've seen so far. Tons of people in traditional German clothes (because that's what you wear when you go drinking apparently!) sitting around tables and singing German drinking songs with massive mugs of beer.

Munich has really awesome street music as well. Not just a lonely guy playing a guitar or a homeless man banging on some stuff, but actual full out bands that hang around and play awesome music. It was really great! 

Munich, like Prague, has a famous clock. Munich's clock is super lame but the puppet show is really good compares to Prague's! It lasted a good 8 minutes. After that we were ready for dinner so we sat down and had really delicious, supposedly Irish, burgers while we people watched.

Sunday was an excellent day of relaxation. After meeting and a very large lunch, we basically played cards all afternoon while it rained. We really enjoyed being at H & J's and hanging out with their kids. It was kind of like being at home for a little bit! They are a very fun family to be around.

Crematorium at Dachau

Monday was quite depressing to be honest... we went to the concentration camp at Dachau - the first one ever built. It was absolutely mind boggling and emotionally traumatic. I can't even imagine how they squeezed 30,000 people into barracks designed for 6,000. Also seeing the crematorium was really creepy.

Did you know you can surf
on the river in Munich?

After those very sad couple hours, we made our way back to the city center to refresh ourselves with some window shopping. There wasn't much going on because everything was closed for the Pentecost holiday, so we grabbed our bags and headed off to Salzburg!