Sunday, December 18, 2011

Guten nacht

I don' have time for a legit post from here--you have to pay to use these computers and they don't have USB jacks anyway. But I have lots of pictures that are blog worthy but not interesting enough for facebook.

Berlin though was pretty cool. We definitely couldn't do it all in the 36 hours we were there, but we did a big chunk. No Checkpoint Charlie though...that would have been cool. We saw the Berlin Cathedral and went up to the cuppola and down to the crypt. Pretty creepy. St. Hedwig's Cathedral. I like that one--it's just a big dome. You aren't supposed to go in there as a sightseer apparently, so we just peeked in through the glass doors and took some photos. The very first place we went was that little sausage and beer stand thing that Anthony Bourdain went to. It was good. Kurrywurst and Berliner Pilsner. The big one of course. It looks like a huge beer cause it's still in the bottle, but it's just a pint really. Maybe that is a lot...I think it's just right. I had goose for dinner last night. We got this mulled wine stuff, pretzels, sour kraut (which Adrianna does't like), strudel, stressel, this flat cheese sandwhich thing that was really good.
The train here to Munich turned out to be about 7 hours. We switched trains once because the track of the one we were on had big rocks on it apparently. The second one was awesome though. Either the whole thing was just really nice, or we were in first class. It was cool.
I was a little brokenhearted earlier because when we got off the train I went to turn my ipod off and it froze Adrianna tried to tell me how to reset it, but it's really a different combination of buttons to push. I looked it up online and was saved my mental breakdown. All is well.
Tomorrow will be grand. We don't have the longest itinerary here. There's the Nationaltheater which is where the Munich orchestra plazs. Lots of Wagner's operas were premiered there under Ludwig II of Bavaria. That'd be cool to see. There's the HofbrÀuhaus am Platz which is the most famous beerhall in the world apparently. Probably touristy, but that means they'll have things in English, so I don't care. I don't want to get blood sausage or something. There's the Viktualienmarkt which is a fresh food/deli sort of thing. And then there's the Christkindlemarkt. A really big and famous Christmas market. It'll be fun. If it's anything like the Berlin Christmas markets there will be tons of food. I want a bratwurst with mustard. That's my attainable goal for tomorrow.
We still aren't 100% sure about the train from here to Chur on Tuesday. That's what I really came down here to do, but whatever.

1 comment:

  1. Grandpa say's kurrywurst was german menudo..ate it for hangovers!!

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