Stinky Colleagues

Today a coworker and I climbed the steeple of Old Peter, a church overlooking Marienplatz in Munich.

A single luftballoon
Where are the other 98?

who dat?

Tomorrow, it will be announced whether or not Munich won the 2018 Winter Olympics bid.
Apparently, it's a big deal.

I was up there, at the tippity top.

on my way home.
a very real problem.
more in the trains than in the office...

Speaking of trains:

People Who Should Never Have to Stand on the Train:

1. Elders

2. Women with children

3. The ones with body odor. Do you really want them reaching their arms up on the guard rail?

4. Sweet interns who overpacked for their weekend trips and have to carry really big bags for 12 more stops.

People Who Should Never Be Sitting Down on the Train:

1. Tall people

You can reach the rails at top. I know you can.

Also, this rules out pretty much all Germans.

2. Obnoxious 15-year-old boys playing handheld video games. 

Go be lame elsewhere.

3. Mean people

4. Toddlers

I mean, they can sit of course, but do they really need their own seat? They're just going to squiggle out of them anyways. Can't they just sit with their mums??

Just some of bRob's personal thoughts on train riding.

Take it or leave it, Deutschland.

-bRob

Safe and Sound

Hey kids -

   I'm safe and sound in Germany! 

Today's been fairly stressful - I went into the train station by myself, had to pay a euro to use the bathroom (in a train station...), and got swindled on the exchange rate. 

I decided to test my super keen sense of direction and guess at how to make the fifteen minute trip back to my hotel by foot. Test failed. I wandered around for an hour and then caved and bought a bus ticket.

My german's decent enough that I can ask a fair number of questions, but it's not good enough so that I understand the answers, which as you might imagine is somewhat problematic.

I ate crazy good gelato (chili-mango!) for only a euro for lunch (...) after a nice long nap and a shower. I walked around the area around my hotel, and this walk was much more pleasant, as I was clean and shiny and actually knew what street my hotel was on.

My room is pretty suite (haha see what I did there?) - it's split level. On the first level is a living room and dining table with a tv, as well as the bathroom and kitchenette, and then up this narrow set of stairs is a double-sized bed. Only they push two twin beds together to make the double-sized bed...ahah.

I haven't really taken pictures yet, but I will try and post those at some point.

Fun fact - the Germans don't sleep with a sheet/cover over them. They have a fitted sheet, and then, kind of like a sleeping bag, sleep between this folded comforter sort of deal. I promise promise promise when I'm feeling more touristy I'll take pictures.

Um, I only have an hour to use my internet, so I guess I'll sign off here. 

I might try and travel to Vienna or to the Neuschwanstein castle tomorrow. If I can figure out how to get back to the train station. If.

-bRob