Munich, Germany

Munich (Oct 17-20)

The next stop on our Honeymoon journey was Munich.

We stayed at the Stachus Hotel, which was only a block away from Neuhauser Strassen (The street with all the stuff on it, as I liked to call it.) This hotel was also nice, but came with a faulty headboard that was simply a block of wood they drilled into the floor, which we immediately broke by looking at it. Aaron is happy the EZ Cheese made it this far with us as well. 

After unpacking, we headed down Neuhauser and saw the Dom (which should really be called the Doms because there are two of them) and Marienplatz, where the infamous Glockenspeil (a giant coo-coo clock with little dudes instead of a bird) is located. Both these areas were undergoing construction—a theme we found in the city. We suspect that as soon as Octoberfest ended the week before, the city immediately started to repair the damage. 

At this point, we realized that we were both hungry and in Germany and headed into the first Brauhaus we could find for beer and sausages.  The rest of the night repeated this pattern.

Weisses Brauhaus gave us sausages! Also, we learned that those pretzels they give you are not free—they charge you by how many you eat! (Good to know as it turned out Aaron  had a serious pretzel and mustard problem.)

Haufbrauhaus was more touristy but we had to go back because it’s what you do when you are tourists. Aaron drank two beers at once!

And then he ate an entire plate of schnitzel and potatoes with much enthusiasm!

The next day, we woke up with just enough time to watch the Glockenspeil do it’s dancy thing and it was so lame, I’m going to show you this picture of the two of us in front of it at night instead:

We then went to the Deutches Museum, which is basically a technology museum (also, under construction) and this made Aaron very happy! Look at him! He’s next to a metal thingie of some sort!

We also found a fun thermal heat thing where we learned my nose gives off less heat then my insulated jacket.

We also wandered around the English Garden for a bit.

That night, we went to dinner at a place called Opatija on Tal where we had our first currywurst! Currywurst is veal sausage in a tomato-curry-sweet and sour sauce and comes with fries. Very yummy! Aaron’s sausage had cheese IN it. We decided that we like the way these Germans think.

The next day we went to Schloss Neuschwanstein aka the castle that inspired Sleeping Beauty’s castle in Disney World. We found a guided tour in English and had a very eccentric guide who wore two hats on his head, two scarves (one around his neck and the other around his waist, naturally) and carried his umbrella like a rifle.

We ate sausages.

And saw the castle from a bridge.

And then again up close.

And then our guide decided to not take us to Fuessen as promised and instead put us on a bus back to Munich so he could go home early. We took this in stride and had more beer.

The next day, we left late at night, so we spent the day at the Residence Museum. Pretty amazing German Rococo design, I must say. 

And that's pretty much it! Next stop: Amsterdam!