And
here is Moomin sitting on my bed this morning, all prepared to travel! Not
going to say today was a terribly exciting day – it actually started last night
because there was a huge nasty leak going on in some of the ceiling of my
floor, so there were people filling buckets with water, mopping, and, of
course, screeching until pretty late (plus, you know, using water was
impossible). And then I had to wake up early to catch my flight! (which was,
delayed, but only by 15 minutes, so it wasn’t a huge deal).
Finally
got to Munich, went very quickly through passport control and the airport,
travel that stays within the EU is always ten times easier than going between
the US and the EU…got on a train, and had my first view of Munich…
Not
very city-like, no? Funny. Some American person sitting next to me was
commenting on how they should get some foreign company to come develop it…I was
confused. Basically, the airport is just pretty far from the actual city,
because I am totally in a city currently.
I
was early to the hostel, so I wandered around for a bit, found a nice park, had a German
pastry, because those are yummy.
Once
settled into my room, I took the S-Bahn (public transportation) over to
Marienplatz, which is pretty much central Munich. I wandered into some clothing
stores and was thoroughly disturbed by the pink jeans. The most impressive
building right on Marienplatz is the Rathaus, city hall, which even has moomin-sized
windows!
I
also found the Viktuelmarkt (Food market) and had an absolutely amazing
smoothie/juice thing. I wandered back to the hostel via the supermarket (food
is so cheap here, it’s quite different than in Central London) and am now here,
somewhat exhausted (see screeching above and lack of sleep), and really really
really exciting because Munich seems pretty awesome so far. It’s so pretty too!
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