Where to begin... First off I should tell all of you that this was our first vacation in 20 years. Almost to the day. A lot has changed since I was last on a plane! Anyway... this was to have been a 25th anniversary trip but we didn't quite make it until year #28. But it was definitely worth the wait. We both absolutely loved it and had a total blast! We flew open jaw into Munich and out of Frankfurt. This forum was a wealth of information and I thank all who replied to my (many) beginner's questions.
I'll start with Munich: We flew from Toronto on Aer Lingus. Connected thru Dublin, of course, then on to Munich. Although uneventful, I hated the flight. I'm very long and tall and those coach seats were murder. I was never so happy to deplane in all my life. Lol. I loved being there, I just hated getting there. We packed light and just had carry ons, both well under the weight limit.
Once we were free in the airport, we found something more substantial than vending machine crap to eat. The meal on the plane was good, but awfully small. I ended up with pumpkin lasagne and a salad and my husband had pork something with sweet potatoes. Delicious! Then we bought S-Bahn tickets from the airport to Marienplatz, and hopped on board. 45 minutes later we were standing gaping at the New Town Hall, and I think I said, Pinch me. We're here! We were staying at the Pension Lindner which was maybe a 5 minute walk but of course we had to look at every single thing so maybe we stretched it to 20 minutes. The pension was exactly as described on their website, and was all we needed. We checked in, dumped our bags, and hit the streets. We headed straight back to the S-Bahn... we didn't want to do anything too heavy, since we had already been up for well over 30 hours straight, with no end in sight. We're bikers, so the most logical thing for us was to hit the Harley dealership. I had mapped it out before we left, so it was easy to find. Maybe a 10 minute train ride and a 1 km walk. Once there, it was like Old Home Week... We checked out everything and had some interesting conversations w/ the staff there. Of course we had to buy the overpriced T-shirts, buttons, patches, etc. Once back into the center of town, we just wandered and walked and checked out EVERYTHING. We stopped at a deli (Called Vinzenzmurr?) nearby our pension and had sausages and schnitzel (YUM) and kept on walking. We ended up in the Asam Church and our jaws just dropped. Talk about over the top. It was dark and moody and almost windowless and like nothing we had ever seen before. We definitely were not in Kansas anymore! We spent a good amount of time in there, taking as many pictures as we could. I absolutely LOVED it. By that time, we had been up for 36 hours straight so we headed back to the pension for some much needed sleep. We were close to the Hackerhaus restaurant/beer garden, so there was a lot of loud and drunk carrying on in the streets outside of our room. But who cared.. we were in MUNICH!!!
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