O brother where am I?: Munich

So after a tough travel day, we started Munich out fresh and hit up a free walking tour with Sandeman’s New Europe. And I gotta say, if you are ever in Europe and want a good orientation/history lesson for free, this is unbeatable. The tour guides were amazing, knew their history and the city pretty well. We saw everything from the glockenspiel in marienplatz, to the St. Peters church (and climbed the bell tower for an amazing view), to the history of the Third Reich and how it basically got started. It was a three hour walking tour, but was well worth it.

After the walking tour, we had a good lunch with the tour guide, then made our way to the English Garden (which is bigger than Central Park in New York). Two things that were, shall we say interesting, were a man made wave that people actually surf. I didn’t know there was much surfing in Germany, but apparently there is. Since the Garden is so big, we only ventured into it for a short stroll, but that stroll took us to the most interesting part of it (I guess, depends how you look at it). We soon found ourselves along the banks of the river with one side for regular sun bathers and the other for nude sun bathers. Go figure, we ended up on the nude side. Which in all honesty isnt necessarily a bad thing, except the ratio of naked old fat men to attractive young women was about 99:1. So as soon as we found a bridge, we booked it to the other side.

Matt wanted plated dessert after that, so we looked at our trusty Lonely Planet guide to find a good delicattesen. We were supposedly pretty close to one, so we went out to find it. About 30 minutes later after finding where is should be, were told that it closed 8 years ago. So we just ended up in Marienplatz (main square) and sat at a café on the square for a few hours to end the day. All in all, and excellent inroduction to the city. Dachau in the morning.