Oliver was a very good car! This is Oliver. He is a Black Opel Astra with leather seats inside. We took the liberty to rent a handheld GPS for the car because we (apparently) hate maps. So of course, in a foreign country where I hoped nothing would go wrong, the GPS decided to tell our driver to 'Make a U-turn, if possible" on one of Germany's unrestricted Autobahn sections. Umm....... no can't do that. As a result of this, I got to the airport roughly 40 minutes late, but still in time to catch the airport.You see, by the time Oliver returned to the rental place, he had apparently done over 1600km in three days.About Oktoberfest.... It is a truly amazing sight to behold. The sheer number of people is absolutely overwhelming. The amount of beer was overwhelming, and the amount of sausages! So many good hotdogs! We waited in line for about two hours to try to get into a tent for Oktoberfest, but alas it was simply not our day.
We couldn't get in and there were just too many people... I'm pretty certain I had about two or three cigarettes worth of second hand smoke that day too. Instead of staying in Theresienwiese where Oktoberfest was held, we decided to go to downtown Munich.
Before we left, I managed to snag a shot with some German patrolmen at Oktoberfest. He initially said it was 50e to take photos with them and he had me duped for about 5 seconds. Germans have humour too!
We headed to downtown Munich for some city wandering. The centre of Munich is kind of interesting... It had a nice mix of old and new architecture. To be honest, it didn't have as much of a wow effect on me as Prague did. Nevertheless, some of the architecture there was still very beautiful. This is one of the scenes you see right away the moment you get to ground level from the underground subways. On a nice day like ours, the sight was quite breathtaking. We had lunch afterwards, and someone decided to try something that was labelled as "I'm going to splurge on lunch today". It came out to be this dish (Apologies for the half eaten dish..)
That's right. Fresh Mozzarella cheese with a healthy portion of tomatoes. For 10e. Given that some people don't fancy cheese and certainly not tomatoes, I had to engage in a dish swap for my vegetarian pasta.
Regardless, this was basically day 2 of our trip in Germany. Photos to follow in the next few days for our very brief stint into Austria and our visit to Schloss Neuschwanstein, inspiration for Disney!
rotfl! i KNEW you were going to talk about the tomato and cheese. it's ok, i don't think i have photos of the dishes, i'll just slowly let time wash away the dishes. =D gotta admit the cheese was good though!
ReplyDeleteoh i was telling 2 of the other drivers (in the other cars) that i actually set foot on austria while they only drove through. they actually seemed a little jealous. just as a side note XD