Munchen, or Munich. in search of a castle, we booked ourselves for a one-day trip to munchen. later we realized, that was a wrong move. we should have stayed 3 days in order to really savor the culture, the beauty of the place. it was more than just the home of the Oktoberfest!
we left home at 7am, and arrived in muchen at 1pm via ICE. we met up with Mano's friend mitch who is married to a german, and was carrying a 5-month baby in her womb. since we have to go back to the train station at 5pm, we only covered the major plaza!
we ate in a typical deutch resto specially chosen by mich. mano and mich had a lot of catching up to do. they regaled me with their manila-office stories, and later mitch with her german adventures in between bites of the steak-and-potato (huge helping!) meal!
later, we walked outside the resto and explored the central park of munich. there were a few street acts (see pic). between Koln, Dusseldorf, Bonn and Munich, there seems to be a rather sense of ease and openness in this place. i can't explain it. Koln for me is majestic, Dusseldorf is formal, Bonn is classic, and Munchen seems to be the free-spirited. we just srolled around the place, and i don't think i've been heated up enough, until we realized it's time to walk back to the train station!we'd have to go back there to munchen and make sure to spend more days... as mitch said it is close to Austria, and of couse to the castle road and the romantic road that we were looking for....
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