We finally fully recovered from the food poisoning and not having anything concrete planned allowed us to sleep in for one of the first times on the trip. Of course, sleeping in was really only till 8:30ish, but it was nice to be able to do some stuff at our own pace today. We decided to use Rick Steves Munich walk tour to guide us on our way, but it was nice to be able to go off the route at times and just enjoy this amazing city. But before that self-guided tour, we went and checked out the festival grounds for Oktoberfest! The grounds are huge! It looked like they were just about to start setting up for a spring festival that started at the end of April. We then made our way to the subway, I mention this seemingly unimportant fact to pause on our story of the day.
Let’s talk about their trains, trams, and buses. Though you could walk around the city fairly easily, they make it so easy by having a connected system of public transport. If you get a day pass or a 3-day pass like we did, you have the freedom to hop on not just the bus or the subway, but every mode of public transport! Plus, not once did we get checked for a ticket, but that doesn’t we didn’t buy tickets, cause I wasn’t about to get a fine in Germany. We rode this system non-stop on our time there. It was wonderful and I sure as heck miss it back home.
Back to the Rick Steves tour! Our audio tour (how is this free, it’s awesome) was a perfect complement to all the other tours that we had done so far. It was all the buildings and sites that we hadn’t seen yet. We saw and looked in lots of cathedrals and saw the famous glockenspiel go off in Marienplatz. Something I find interesting is that every single cathedral/catholic church we go into smells exactly the same, stuffy and sterile and a little gross. Don’t know if that is cause they are old, but it was just very interesting. This was such an informative walk around the city. Even better was the ability to hop on a train and head back to our hotel halfway through the audio tour and take a nap. Really was a great compliment to all we had done.
Travel Tales From BB-8 