Our second day of Munich was pretty rainy. We worked our way north to the BMW museum and exhibition halls. Its interesting to see how BMW started from a 6 cylinder aircraft engine maker to a motorcycle maker and lastly a car maker. The museum highlights all their technical improvements throughout a 90 year period. Quite impressive and illuminating to see how the whole brand made its way almost a century!
We left the museum for a quick stop in the Munich Olympic park. The place is pretty drabby from all the rain so we took off immediately for the city center. Munich is a quaint little town with lots of attractions for Tourists. The bratwursts were excellent, especially the white brats. Things were much cheaper in Munich in comparison to Paris. So we roamed the area while it rained and bought some foodies from the local market in the area. Germans close shop really early. Places were shutting their doors at 6:00pm.
After some market shopping to headed home to rest before going to the Hoffbrauhaus! The largest and most famous beerhall in Munich. Its self seating there on these long wooden tables. You just join anybody where there is a seat, so we sat by a group of Germans from Stuttgart and an Irish-German couple. We ordered huge chunks of pork along with other german beerhall foods. The best thing there was their beer though. I got the Hoffbrau orignal which is only served in a liter (a whole bottle of nalgene) and I finished off Jason and Tommy's half litre of the local Hefenwiesen. Delicious! I would've really wanted to stay longer, but we had to do laundry so we headed home... but I will be back again!
The next day we decided to make an improptu stop at Salzburg, Austria on our way to Vienna. What was suppose to be a few hours visit took up the entire afternoon. Salzburg is the home of Mozart and beautiful views. We walked along the main plazas where we got some almond flavored chocolates that will floor you. Walking along the ridge of the mountain, we walked by several classically trained street performers who were playing the masters on various instruments. Quite enjoyable with a huge chess game being played on the plaza.
At the top of Salzburg sits the Salzburg Fortress. 582 meters up, and we attained some of the nicest panoramic views of the city and the alpalachians. I'd recommend going up there for the view since they don't have much in displays or exhibits.
Lastly we caught the next train to Vienna. We lucked out and snagged our own cabin which had A/C, curtains, a lockable door, slouching chairs, and a great view of the countryside. Three hours didnt seem that long as we made our way to Vienna.
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