Munich

In Munich we stayed at Wombats which was a very nice hostel. With our own en-suite. And on a side street from the hauptbahnhof.
We did a free walk of Munich by the same company as the Berlin tour, but it was nowhere near as good. The tour guide gave out a lot of misinformation and couldn’t even answer simple questions.

On Monday (the 29th) we visited the English Gardens, which were absolutely huge. It was nice and sunny and a few people were sun baking by the side of the creek that ran through it. In the Afternoon we went to the climbing gym which was awesome!

On Tuesday we visited the Deutches museum which was good, but I thought that they had a bit too much stuff. It would take quite a few visits to see it all, and it was hard to figure out which exhibits to see.

On Wednesday we took a trip out to see Schloss Neuschwanstein the traditional fairytale castle.
The train out there took 2 hours and we were worried that it might have been closed due to the flooding that was happening. But the trains were running fine. When we bought out tickets for the castle they had a tour time on them and we had to walk 30 minutes to get to the castle which was a bit strange. While we were waiting for the tour we saw some hang gliders soaring around in the sky. The castle was very impressive but the guided tour was very quick and it felt a bit rushed.
There was another castle there but we decided to only do one and stroll through the forest the long way back to town.

On Friday we did a bit of shopping (Matt picked up a new Play station portable to keep us busy on train journeys and stuff).
Our German is now good enough that we can order food and train tickets completely in German, so I guess it’s off to Italy to learn Italian.