Do I look Hispanic?

We have been in Munchen 3 days now. The trip over here was pretty uneventful and quite easy. Our flight from Paris to Munchen was about 15 minutes late, but no biggie. The Paris airport is awful by the way - VERY limited shops and food (coffee shop and duty free in our terminal). Jessie and I spoke with a man in Paris who went backpacking about 25 years ago and has visited Europe about 70 times since. He recommended a great Bavarian restaurant, which was very good. I was nervous when the waiter told me I had to get the suckling pig (I was picturing a head), but to my relief there was no head involved. For the first time in my life I enjoyed saurkraut, which continues to be the only thing resembling a vegetable I've seen in the past 3 days.

Tuesday Jessie and I wandered around town and saw much of the important city sites. We visited the Oktoberfest grounds and monument to Bavaria. As well as townhall, many city squares, and the city park. The city park included a surfing wave (something I never thought I would see in Germany), a huge Chinese themed biergarten, and a nude sunbathing area (holy old man balls, at least they weren't pasty). We also visited the alte pinothek (old art museum) and moderne pinothek (hope you can get that one). Jessie was not impressed, but I thought their collection was pretty amazing. Lots of Durer, Rubens, and Van Dyck as well as some Picasso, Dali, and Van Gogh (Jessie of course fails to see the academic side of art). We were absolutely exhausted last night, but had to go to Hofbrauhaus. So headed there and hoped to last for 1 liter (definitely not beer ball material). 4 hours later we decide we had best be going. Jessie, randomly started talking to a 20 year old kid from Moscow who was taking part in the biomedical engineering conference herein Munchen. The 3 of us talked for quite some time and had a great time comparing cultures. We walked through the busiest, and possibly the most beautiful part of town on the way back from Hofbrauhaus and it was awesome to see it not crowded and so quiet.

Today Jessie and I went to Dachau. Exploring the concentration camp was very interesting; a haunting reminder of the past and incredible caution for the future. We then went on a Hitler and Third Reich walking tour of Munchen this afternoon. We say Hitler's offices, where the Nazi party, SA, and SS were all started, as well as many swastikas hidden around town among many other things. Souvenir shopping followed as well as partaking in our daily habit of gelato (the sales lady started speaking to me in Spanish, I was very confused).

We are onto Venice tomorrow. Had a great time in Munchen, only wish we had taken part in the city walking tour the hostel provides and had an extra day to go to Neuschwanstein. I guess I have to save something for the next time I'm here. unfortunately the computers here do not have USB access for us lowly hostel folk, so no pictures this time. It's amazing how much of my German has come back to me. Jessie was thoroughly impressed when I ordered coffee this morning in German. Now if only I could get used to this blasted European keyboard we would be set. Time to be going. See you all in Venice!