To Europe and Back

Rainy Munich and Off to Budapest

We were greeted by yet another rainy day in Munich, so we headed to Munich Residence Museum and Treasury. The Treasury collection included quite a few fancy items, including beautiful crowns, glassware and silver service for a banquet. The Residence was interesting as well, but since most of the building was destroyed during WWII, it has been rebuilt, and most of the rooms are furnished with items never actually used in the residence.

After getting lost in the winding halls of the Residence, Cate and I managed to find each other outside, and decided to go for the most authentic meal available in Munich -- conveyor belt sushi! Ok, so it's not authentic, but at some point, a girl can't eat any more schnitzel, dumplings or sausage. Heck, after our night at the Hofbrauhaus, we disappointed the entire tourist community by skipping beer altogether and drinking Coke and green tea. It was a refreshing change from all the heavy food we had been eating.

Our overnight train to Prague left at 11:08 p.m., so we spent the late afternoon/evening doing internety things, getting pictures from our memory cards burned onto CDs, purchasing some food for our trip and generally getting psyched up for spending the night on the train. We were very happy to share our room of couchettes with four young Korean girls -- they were so young and tiny they could barely pick up their own bags, let alone run off with our things (combined with their lack of detectible body odor this made them perfect roommates). A little bit of reading and we were off to sleep en route to Prague uneventfully.

posted by Heather @ 4:33 PM