and so we were off to munich, the city of beers and more beers. haha. took the speedy ICE train and arrived in munich at around lunchtime. started our tour of the old town soon after checking into the laidback wombat hostel, where you could get a 'blow job' at the coffee machine haha. walked around the pretty marienplatz where the architecture just wows you away, esp the new rathaus. continued walking around, seeing churches, the residenz (palace) and the odeonplatz till it was a bit dark. took the underground train to the olympic village. by this time it was completely dark and the huge stadium was closed already. we did managed to see the swimming pool however. haha. i wanna swim!!
second day in munich marked our venture into the outer part of dachau, where there was a concentration camp memorial site. it's a really huge place with low-rise, cold-looking buildings. it's quite a sad place, reading all the recounts of prisoners and seeing their living conditions would make one feel rather depressed. the exhibition was a bit too lengthy for our liking. we found out about sick medical experiments that they performed on the prisoners. for e.g. they let prisoners only drink sea water as an experiment to see how long they could survive on it. sick. all hitler's doing.
on that rather low note, we left dachau to walk around the old town once more to catch some sights we missed out the previous day. since it was CNY eve we pampered ourselves with a GOOD dinner at the famous hofbrauhaus! the place was HUGE!! at least a hundred people were there i think. we had their famous PORK KNUCKLE and jt's favourite SAUSAGES!! and some funny potatoes which tasted like kee zhang. haha. tried their beer too, though jt wouldnt go near one. we sat with an american exchange student and chatted with him for the whole dinner. quite fun!
last day in munich we checked out early and took a 2hour train ride to fussen where the highlight of our trip awaited us, the inspiration for the castle in the walt disney logo - schloss neuschwanstein!! we could not stop snapping away at the castle la! it was totally out of a fairytale. the weather was good, the sky was blue, the castle was pretty. it just made my exchange! hahahaha. the place was filled with koreans for some reason. and the castle was quite modern for its time.. got central flushing and internal heating.. or was it internal flushing and central heating? hahaha.and the king died even before he got to complete the castle! haha. due to some people not paying attention to the tour guide, i won a free cup of hot chocolate!!! hahaha.
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