Our friend Hunter, recently moved from San Francisco to Munich last fall. We crashed with him and got the true Munich tour. First off, Hunter took us to the home of Munich’s biggest beers! It was scrumptious…
Hunter is an English teacher, as well as a women’s softball coach to the German locals. We went to his game on Saturday to cheer them on – American Style! Needless to say, they couldn’t handle what the Rock was Cooking, so both games finishes with the Mercy rule. YAY Hunter’s Girls!
We thanked Hunter for his graciousness and headed on to Berlin.
Berlin is for the Hardcore
Berlin looks like I thought it would. Dark overcast, graffiti everywhere, people avoiding your eye contact – actually its like New York. The sites in Berlin were limitless though so we had to plan carefully.
Our first stop was the Wall. The Berlin Wall museum is a couple short videos of what used to happen around the wall, during the wall was built and after it came down. This takes place across the street from a section of the Wall still standing and has a tower for you to climb and see the Wall.
Next to the Wall is a cemetery, where the story is told that people dug up the graves and moved them just to build this wall. They had a respectful display remembering those that were hurt emotionally and physically during this time.
Another museum Matt and I visited was the Topography of Terror. This was Germany’s timeline posted on a brick wall, and different exhibits on the Holocaust.
We left there in need of something a little lighter and headed for the Salvador Dali museum. This was better than the Van Gogh to me. Dali is known for being crazy and eccentric, and his museum was a great representation. In the lobby they had couches shaped liked big lips, and a piano in the middle of a fountain. It was a great display of his many works, and inspiring to the abnormal.
Berlin had a fun nightlife, but Amsterdam was a tad better. We did meet some nice Canadians (I know, they are EVERYWHERE) who took us to a hipster bar, and we hung out for an evening.
The best thing that Berlin offered was a shut down airport. Berlin has three airports, and they are slowly shutting down two of them to make a Mega Airport. One has been shut down successfully, and they let visitors walk all over the tarmac. Matt and I were very happy to do this, but when I saw the sign for segway rentals...I knew what had to be done. Segway Racing!
Germany all in all was a relaxing section of our trip. This is our final country and I feel that Matt and I enjoyed hanging out with locals, more than doing some of the more well known things.
Matt and I finished Germany by heading to Frankfurt. We met with our friend Matthew and had a great German meal of pig knuckles.
We both agree that we are sad to see this trip end, and recognize this has been a trip of a lifetime. We are not home sick, we just miss a couple things: Mexican food and grocery stores.
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