Munich

The trip has started, and we just spend some time hanging out in Munich with my friend Jayanti. Today was clearly a lot of fun, because it absolutely flew by. We went for traditional German breakfast, which consists of Weissbeir (spelling? big ass beers for breakfast), pretzls (I don't know what they are called in German) and I had weisswurst also. Weisswurst is a white sausage that comes floating, rather unappitizingly, in a big bowl of water. I'm pretty sure this because it's boiled, but I could be wrong. It was actually really yummy. There was also two types of mustard, a yellow mustard, and some sort of sweet local Bavarian mustard. I had some of each (I did have a pretzl and a half and 2 links of sausage to try it with). I liked both, but the sweet mustard was delicous.

After breakfast, we set off into Munich to wander around, slightly intoxicated. We went to an outdoor Market (Virtualienmarkt? That's not quite right, but close), watched the surfers (yes, there are surfers in Munich), and ended up going for more beer in the park in the afternoon. Actually, the second time we had Radler, or half beer half lemonade. It doesn't sound good, but it really is. I think I probably had Radler when I was in Germany in 2007, but I don't really remember. Jayanti was telling Kristin and I that Radler means rider (as in bike-rider). So Radler is the beer that you have if you need to ride a bike or play sports after. Not having a beer? Not an option. ;) I might have screwed up the translation, but that's the gyst.

I would include some pictures in the post, but I didn't bring the cable and the card-reader is not the right kind. No pictures for you. ;)

Tomorrow, it's on to Italy (we have another half day in Munich, or so). Auf Weidersehen.