So, yesterday, all of our running around finally caught up to us, and by the time we got to the Tent we crashed for a few hours. I have a cold, which is really fun, and meant that yesterday we spent a long time looking for cough drops–long enough that we compiled a list of
THINGS YOU CAN GET IN MUNICH ON SUNDAY
A lap dance
Your own personal striptease
Any erotic toy/movie etc.
A meal at Pizza Hut
Crazy music at Christopher Street Day
A visit with an ER nurse who happens to speak very good English
THINGS YOU CANNOT GET IN MUNICH (at least not without a lot of effort)
A pharmacy (medicine, cough drops etc.)
Groceries
Basic necessities
So that was our day yesterday, basically.
Germany is in general kind of tricksy, in that none of us know any German at all. All of us had taken French at some point and Steph still does, and she has taken Italian, and that is similar enough anyway to the various Romance languages we´ve each taken that we could find our way around at least.
German is a whole different story. It is nothing at all like any language any of us has taken. The extent of all the German we have among us are the ten words of Dutch Cameron learned on the internet…so, none at all, actually, except the word for “small” is the same.
Today we took the train to a town about an hour from here on a very pretty lake, and took a boat to an island upon which Ludwig II built a palace in the style of Versailles, only about one-fiftieth the size–basically the poor king´s Versailles, but it was still pretty cool.
We have also discovered that public transportation in Munich apparently runs on the honor system–in two days of travel within the city, no one has ever asked to see a ticket. Which is pretty cool, really, since people still buy tickets. If they tried that in LA it would not go well.
Tomorrow night we train to Amsterdam. For now, though, I am done blogging, because the people on the computer next to me are giving me a headache.
–Amanda