As many of you know, over Christmas break Genna and I took a trip to Munich. By car it is about 7 hour drive. By train it was going to take about 22 hours and we would have had to change trains several times. The best option we found was taking a bus. It took 17 hours. We used Sindbad bus company. They were great! We just had to change busses once and they were super helpful and made sure we got on the right bus, even though it was clearly marked.
We arrived in Munich at about 8am, went to our hostel and dropped our stuff off and then went on a free walking tour of the city.
Above are pictures of the Glockenspiel. It's life size statues that move around for a few minutes to music. I stood there and thought this is kind of cool. After a while I thought, why am I still standing here?
Munich is well known for it's beer. It is the home of the original Hofbrauhaus and many other beer halls. We stopped there on the walking tour. Honestly, it looked exactly like the Hofbrauhaus in Pittsburgh and I am assuming every other one around the world, but it's the original and I can say I've been there.
Our tour guide told us some funny stories about the evolution of beer halls. If you are interested Genna retold them on her blog.
After the tour we went to the Viktualien market. There were some amazing seasonings. We bought some for friends in Poland. I wish we would have bought more! For dinner we had a German Bratwurst! We were pretty much zombies by about 4pm, so we went to bed super early!
