Thursday, August 8, 2013

Munich

Our flight from Delhi to Munich was great, we flew with Lufthansa. The plane was massive, one of the biggest I have ever been on (I have been on LOTS)! It was an Airbus A340 and you had to actually go downstairs to go the bathroom, where 5 of them were located. The breakfast was pretty good and also really huge. I think my favourite part was the drinks, the stewards and stewardesses came around close to 10 times handing out drinks! The flight a lot longer than I had anticipated, about 7ish hours.
Once in Munich(Müchen) we caught the S-Bahn(metro) into the city. We got off at Hauptbahnhof, it's the central station, near the town centre and where our train to Venice left from the next day. After a fair bit of looking we found a pretty good hotel with a shared bathroom and breakfast for 80€ ($108). It was a huge price difference from Asia, but we were expecting it.

For dinner we took the S-Bahn to nearby Marienplatz to get some dinner. Munich is totally famous for it's beer so we headed to Munich's most famous beer hall-Hofbrauhaus. My dad got a huge 1 litre mug of beer, while my mom and I ordered other drinks. For dinner we got yummy sausages and sauerkraut (and really good mustard), an amazing pork knuckle and some tasty German bread.
Back on the S-Bahn we went and headed back to Pension Central (our hotel). The following morning we wandered our way to Karlsplatz and the surrounding shops after an great breakfast of cold cuts, cheese and buns. There were some great (and pricey) souvenir shops around where we walked to. They sold absolutely gorgeous cuckoo clocks and beer steins, along with lots of other beautiful German souvenirs. The cuckoo clocks were my favourite, but came with a wallet-draining price tag. After a morning of gazing at cuckoo clocks we headed to Hauptbahnhof and got on the train to Venice.

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