We awoke sometime between 9 and 10 that day and headed downstairs for the included breakfast. The hotel was full on 70’s style with wood paneling and that jazz. I only realized this on our way down for breakfast. We walked into the room where breakfast was being served. There were some tables and so on, some people were already eating. We were greeted by a little German lady, who appeared to be the only one working the tables. She didn’t speak much English, but thankfully I spoke German so we could get our order of tea (or coffee when I felt adventurous, haha) across with no problem.
I guess in Bavaria it must be a standard thing to eat a hard boiled egg for breakfast every day, because that’s what we were served every morning. There was a little table/spot set up in the room where you could go and make yourself a sandwich with various cold cuts or jams, or waffles, but the egg was always served. Since I’m not much of a fan of eggs at all, I eventually started saying to her “Kein Ei, danke” (“no egg thanks!”), which she appeared to be surprised at, at least the first time, and I always had to remind her. After breakfast we decided to hop into the german bullet and drive down to the “Altstadt” (the “old city”) area and wander about and see what the city of monks has to offer. After Paris, München felt like it had maybe 200,000 people living in it. I soon looked into it and found out that München itself has over 1,000,000 people. Even after finding this out, it still felt much smaller, so we opted to drive everywhere instead of taking the metro like we did in Paris. We wandered around the Altstadt area for a little bit, mainly heading towards Marienplatz, stopping occasionally to take a photo of something interesting. On the way we saw an Aston Martin dealership, and looked at the cars through the large glass windows. We opted not to go in and ended up snapping a few shots from outside. We continued walking, and discovered the Theatinerkirche around the corner, which I found really interesting, because it has a really original sandy gold-yellow color which i haven’t seen before.
We took some shots of the area, which had a lot of Roman-looking statues of lions, what looked like knights, as well as saints. We were getting closer to Marienplatz. We walked through some sort of a mall-type building, which was interesting because it had an open roof…I guess everyone has to run into the nearest store when it begins to rain. That’s one way to sell products I guess!
