Day 18 Munich:

Our first full day in Munich and it is very cold and very wet. The maximum temperature today is forecast at 9ºC. We need some supplies so we head around the corner where there is a fruit and vegie shop. Then we head back in the other direction where there is a supermarket, all within 100m from the apartment. We have breakfast and get moving. Today we are going to the Dachau Concentration Camp which is about 20 minutes out of Munich by train. We walk down the street to the underground train station, the U Bahn. We look at the ticketing machine and try and decipher what ticket we need. Half an hour later we are still looking at this machine so we ask a passer-by to help translate the info for us. She was fantastic but we still didn’t have a clue what we were doing so we picked a ticket for the price we thought we should pay and headed underground. They don’t have barriers at the train stations like Perth so I suppose it must be an honesty system. We get to the main train station where we need to transfer to the Dachau line. We arrive at Dachau and think were the hell do we go now. I ask a bus driver who politely informs me that Dachau is closed on Monday’s. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiver me timbers I think to myself. As soon as he tells me that I think, yeah, I remember reading that when I was researching it back at home. The rain is constant and it is bitterly cold. Kris and I are sharing an umbrella and we haven’t been this close since our honeymoon. Kris politely informs me that it is time for a second umbrella. Offended, I head on over the road to the equivalent of a Coles Fossey store to get one. It’s now back on the train and back to Munich. We get out of the underground and start walking for the Marienplatz, the main square in Munich and I tell you what, it’s freak’n cold, and wet! We walk for a while and see a German sausage place. “I’m getting one of those” I say to the kids. So we give it a whirl and we all agree that that was a bit of a winner. We keep walking and by now we are just about frozen over so we stop to buy Kris and the kids some woollen gloves. After a bit of a look around we get back on the U Bahn and take off back to the apartment. We get back to the apartment and decide we’ll go for a walk around Scwabing to try and find a hot coffee because I tell you what, its freak’n cold!!! This is a beautiful little area but not much is open on a Monday arvo. We find a coffee shop that is nice and warm and hang out there for an hour or so. The rain finally decides to let up around 3:30pm so we head back to the apartment. The kids watch a movie before we walk back down to the Italian restaurant we ate at last night for dinner. This time we order more food, more wine, more dessert and hang around for a lot longer. We didn’t think that after 18 days travelling through London and Paris that the best restaurant we would eat at would be an Italian restaurant in Germany 100m from our apartment and at half the price of all the others! “See you tomorrow night” we say to the waiter as we walk out the door.

"Downtown Schwabing, Kurfürstenplatz, Munich"

"Mia enjoing a laugh at the Italian restaurant"

"The kids doing their diaries after dinner"