Catching up to Munich

Oh Munich! We were able to spend a few days there and had a grand ol' time, sort of :-) One of the little joys of traveling is that things do not always work out...the weather isn't always perfect, the hostels are not always the best, ect. This is exactly what happened to us in Munich.

The photo to the left is from our ghetto hotel (I don't know if you can appreciate the full effect of it's nastiness in this picture...our light in the room was a tiny table lamp with no lamp shade)! We had booked it online and were supposed to stay there for 3 nights, but we weren't too fond of the four shaddy men that were running the hotel...they liked to wear their sunglasses while they were inside and watching t.v. at 11:00 pm, so we packed up our bags and headed out the next morning to find something that suited us a bit better.

By the way, the hotel looked nothing like this when we booked it online.

There is nothing quite like a beer garden! Lots of cold yummy beer to choose from and HUGE, delicious soft pretzels, so yummy. This picture was taken right before the skies decided to open up and pour on us for the 4 days that we were in Munich. It would have been fine if we had been prepared, but we packed all summer clothes. For days we layered item after item of clothing then threw on the one sweatshirt that we packed, along with our flip-flops and army hats and braved the cold rain and wind. We were FROZEN!!!

The above are a few pictures from our bike tour (yes, that too was in the pouring rain),but we had a blast! And below, one of the best meals EVER!  Seriously, so delicious.  I highly recommend eating at Augustiner brewhouse and restaurant (it's Munich's oldest brewery).

Yes everyone, the eating establishment you are looking at is a McDonalds!  It was so clean that you could eat off the floor...leave it to the German's to make something like a McDonald's seem much more incredible then it really is.

And lasty, we went to Dachau Concentration Camp.  What an experience that was!  It was the first German concentration camp to open and served as a model for the all of the others to come.  One of the interesting facts about Dachau is that they housed mainly political prisoners and a very small amount of Jews.  Below is the memorial that was erected in the middle of the camp (those are the sleeping baracks in the back ground).  It was such a sad place to go, and so crazy to see how horrible humans can be to one another.