Today was great. We were super productive, saw a lot of things we wanted to see and do a lot of things we wanted to do. We woke up at 7 and came downstairs and worked on the computer for a while. I uploaded some pictures to the Internet from yesterday, but I am not sure if the site works the way I want it to. I’m in the midst of figuring all of that so that the pictures are up for public viewing. In addition, the site doesn’t upload the pictures that easily and it takes a long while. Then we ate some breakfast (oranges, smacks cereal, and lots of water) complementary of the hostel. Did some more work on the computer while we had our coffee, which was essential to jump starting our day. Went upstairs to take our first showers since we left the US and were pleased to see our extremely weird roommates were already gone. After showers, we got ready for the day and then headed off.
We had to buy another day buddy pass for the metro and of course it was all in German so we did not understand how to use the machines that dispensed the ticket. Luckily a nice man that also spoke English was around to help us. We haven’t encountered a mean person yet. Everyone who we asked in English to help us was more than willing to. We got our ticket and headed towards the BMW museum. I’m telling yall, in the 36 hours we have been in Munich, Katherine and I have learned to more than efficiently use the metro. I am extremely proud of us. We zipped around on it all day and even took a bus at one part of the day. Public transportation seems to be agreeing with us. It is so convenient and I almost find it soothing to ride, if it weren’t so dirty. It is impossible to walk out of the metro and still feel clean.
The BMW Museum was pretty cool. I took lots of pictures of really nice cars, and other BMW transportation vehicles. There were also some cool ads that the company uses in Europe displayed around, which I found enjoyable. I am truly amazed at the number of luxury cars that people drive around here. It far exceeds the number in the US. I wonder if it is because they get a discount because they aren’t foreign? We weren’t there very long because cars don’t get us too terribly excited. From the BMW Museum, we headed to Vitualienmarkt.
Vitualienmarkt is an open-air market that is open every day. I read about it in a book that was entitled something to the effect of places you must eat and drink at around the world. I looked it up on the Internet and couldn’t find exact direction on how to get there with the metro, but it did say that it was behind St. Peter’s Cathedral. So Katherine and I looked at a map and guess where St. Peter’s was and took the metro there with the intentions of figuring it out when we got there. Where we got out of the metro was in the main shopping district. There were a couple of building that looked like they could be St. Peter’s so we just started walking around. After a while we got hungry and decided it was time to ask someone. They pointed us in the right direction and we went around the corner and found it!
Mom you would have absolutely loved it. Fresh fruit, meat, cheese, olives, places to eat outside, great stuff to look at, oddly enough a bunch of olive bars. We decided to get lunch here and decided on splitting a mini quiche and a bunch of grapes, all for 4 euros. The quiche was a Lorraine quiches so it had fresh ham in it and the lady selling the grapes let me taste a bunch of different types of grapes and pick out which ones I liked best. I don’t understand why anyone would buy grapes that had seeds in them. They are very tricky. We sat on a bench, people watched, and had our delicious lunch, which ended up being surprisingly filling.
At this point I would just like to reiterate that there are so many people walking around in legitimate, traditional, German clothing. I’m talking about dressed to the nines in a leighterhosen and had and the bodice dresses. I am very curious if this is a normal thing, or just something for Oktoberfest.
After lunch, we headed towards the Dauchau Concentration camp. All I can say about that was woah. This was the part of the day where we had to take the metro and the bus to get there. We weren’t sure if our metro ticket worked with the buses, so we just got on the bus and it worked! There were guided tours and audio tours available, but Katherine and I both agreed that we were glad that we opted not to do those because it would have taken much longer than we cared to be there. The whole situation of the Holocaust is really just unbelievable that it happened. It is crazy how mob mentality can take hold of people so that they do the most inhumane things. Being there drained us. So we went back to the hostel to take a little nap, reenergize, catch up on some things, figure out dinner, figure out where we are going after Munich. Tonight we are going back to Oktoberfest for round two. There are some things that we didn’t get around to last night that we would like to get done.
Tomorrow we are leaving Munich and going somewhere to be determined in the next hour. We are trying to keep busy most days so obviously we can see the most in our time here, but it also helps with sleeping when we are worn out!
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