I really, really like Munich.

My first full day in Munich was jam packed with super neato stuff. I woke up pretty early and had a buffet breakfast at the hostel for 3,90 Euro and it was tasty as could be.

Then I went for another walk down to the Marienplatz to see everything in the daylight. When I got there, they were having some kind of faux coronation for the German holiday 'Epiphany' where apparently two young-looking adults get crowned king and queen of something and dress up in all white and gold and there was a stage and weird costumes and dancing. I'm not sure what it was all about really.

I'm not sure if that was a dance or if they were legit pointing at something.

I kinda hung around there for a while because of all the music and craziness on stage, plus the glockenspiel goes off at 11am and noon and that's pretty cool to watch.

Walked around a bit, saw St. Peter's Church, other plazas and stuff.

And I got lunch at this huuuuuuge underground shopping center/mall thing? It had everything inside. Everything ever. I should have taken pictures. Instead I got lunch and ate it at the hostel. And then I accidentally took a nap.

But not before getting my kinder eggs.

So after my way-too-long nap I went down to the hostel bar with one of my roommates, who was also travelling alone. And after a couple beers we went to get some food at Munich's famous Hofbräuhaus, which inspired the drinking song "One, two, drink!" It is also where Hitler's National Socialist Party held it's first meeting in 1920.

Expensive, but I really enjoyed the atmosphere and history of the place. You aren't seated by anyone, you just find an empty seat at a table (usually with others) and sit down. The tables have names of people hundreds of years dead scratched into their surfaces and you just get a really traditional Bavarian vibe in there.


The next morning I wanted to see the so-called English Garden and spent about 40 minutes walking there in the dark to hopefully get to see sunrise in the park. However, I think I only saw about 2 hours worth of sunlight the whole time I was in Munich because of the constant snow and cloud cover. Luckily I love snow enough to not hold a grudge.

I only scratched the surface of the English Garden because I was meeting my mom at the central train station in couple hours, but it was a cool place.

There was a Japanese style tea house near the front.

And all the bridges over the creeks had locks all over them. I looked at them and realized they all had names and initials all over them, always in pairs.

Oh yeah, and then there were surfers. These two dudes and this chick were just surfing in this liitle man made swell that was there specifically for the purpose of surfing in. Righteous.

I gave them the thumbs up and then booked it to the train station. ...Where apparently they paint new trains to look like really old ones? I would have just preferred the old ones.