Our last morning in Füssen and the first day we were actually able to sleep in, which was nice. Breakfast at Hotel Zum Hecten left a lot to be desired, but it was an otherwise great place to stay. Almost all of the breakfast was cheese and bread. This meant I got some cereal to change it up a little bit. Even my wife, who loves cheese, got a bowl of cereal because she was a little sick of the same stuff over and over. This is, what I think, caused the events of the hardest day yet.*
Our train didn’t come in ’till about noon so we hung out and had some coffee at a local cafe to waste some time. Kind of a nice boring morning. Only problem was, I didn’t feel right. Something felt off in my stomach. I took it as food just not settling right and that it would go away. So I did my best to sit back and relax on our train ride to Munich, excited to finally get off and stay in Munich after passing through it three times already.
When we got to the Hauptbahnhof (Central Train Station) in Munich, nothing was feeling any better, only worse, but I was determined to keep on exploring. We made our way to the Radius tours office, check them out if you are in Munich because they are the best! Here is a link to some of their tours if you want to see what they do: Radius Tours. Anyways, back to the story. We made our way to the Radius tour office to book all of the tours we wanted to do in our time in Munich! After doing all of that, I asked the guy working there, who was awesome, where the nearest bathroom was because I was about to hurl everywhere. He was so nice, he let us use the staff bathroom for free (instead of having to pay a Euro for the public restroom and it was closer). Now luckily there was no one else in the bathroom because it was bad. As soon as I made it into a stall and got my backpack off I exploded. Not literally, but everything came out of both ends. It was just awful. At least it did make me feel a little better, but now we had to find our hotel.
Again, we struggled, I wasn’t feeling well which didn’t help, but we eventually figured out where to go. We didn’t get that lost this time, which is great! As soon as we got to the hotel I crashed on the bed. It felt great being able to lie down cause I just felt achy all over the place. Then I thought, “Hey, maybe I should take a shower or just sit down in the shower and let water run over me, that will feel good.” As I was sitting in the shower relaxing, something, maybe the hot water, triggered the rest of what was in my stomach to come out. Ugh.
Luckily we didn’t have much else to do that day. I got to enjoy listening to a Fulham win!! Woohoo! For those that don’t know I support Fulham Football club and it was great to not have to wake up at 7 am to listen to the game. Excited to see them in person in 1 week! After that, I was feeling better, but definitely not 100% and it was time for our first beer tour.
The beer tour was a lot of fun! Good people to talk to and even though I couldn’t stomach much, such great beer. This tour was more about the history of beer in Munich and the history of the Oktoberfest, as our tour took us to the Oktoberfest museum. Learning about why they do the festival and why everyone is invited! It is celebrating the Kronprinz Ludwig and his marriage to Princess Therese. Everyone was invited and they liked it so much they wanted to do it again and again! Even got to “enjoy” a meal in a beer hall even though my drink of choice was water. So even though I had to skip on some beer, I did get to enjoy some of the small samples, it was a fun tour to learn more about Munich’s history. Keith (who is from Ireland) was a great tour guide. Even though it was a little bit rough getting the food poisoning we had a lot of fun in our first night in the place they call “the village with a million people.”
*The culprit for the food poisoning was most likely milk in our cereal, our bodies weren’t used to the unpasteurized milk.
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