Greetings Germany!
I had never been to Europe before but I heard great things about it. This summer I was fortunate to tag along with my dad and my sister to travel. My dad said he had great memories of Germany and this time I was glad he got to make memories with us this time. (Sorry if the pictures are messy.)
DAY 1
We started this journey at five in the morning with a plane ride to Germany. Being on the plane was an all day thing because it was about seven hours long.
View from the plane and Euros
I had a nice routine going: I ate breakfast, watched Whiplash (highly recommended), and slept. I woke up with lunch waiting for me in a bag next to me. We reached Germany around 5PM their time or 2PM New York time. It was a bit hard getting used to the time zone. It was six hours ahead of the United States.
DAY 2
I woke up way earlier than planned, which hardly happens. I probably woke up because I was hungry. There wasn’t any special place near the hotel so I ventured out and walked until I found something. The closest place was a Burger King.
We packed up and this became another travel day except this time we took a lot of trains to reach Munich/Müchen. This is the third largest city in Germany. Müchen means “of monks” since the city has many monasteries run by monks. There is one depicted on their coat of arms holding a red book.
We dropped off our stuff at the Wombat hostel. It’s a cute place where there were a lot of students traveling with just backpacks from all over the place. It was cute and reminded me of the children’s section in IKEA since it was so small but it worked cause it had everything you need: a bed and bathroom.
Karstadt was the grocery store
We visited the grocery store and got a cute pound of strawberries and chocolate that we thought were kinder eggs since those are illegal in the United States. For those that don’t know: kinder eggs are milk chocolate eggs with a toy inside. We had to pay for a grocery bag and it was 5€ so it would be about $5.50 here in the United States since the Euro is 10% more. It was interesting how you could buy beer like its soda and there was a sushi bar that let’s you pick what kind of sushi you want in your packet.
The food was pretty hardy at the Hofbräuhaus. Wilhelm V created this place when he was Duke because he didn’t like the beer in Munich so he made his own brewery. As I ate with my dad the Oom-pah band played and people in traditional clothing danced. The clothing is called a “dirndl”, a bodice and apron for women, or “Lederhosen”, knee-high leather shorts for men.
I had ice cream on the way back to the hostel to the soundtrack of classical music played by street musicians. There was also a nice breeze in the summer air so it was lovely. Some people were also ballroom dancing to the music. It was a very different vibe from the Hofbräuhaus.
To be continued!
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