"Wow...how fast d'you think this thing goes?"
"I mean...that thing's just...gone!"
"This thing ain't waitin for no one!"
"Hey, we just passed the train station and it only took less than 5 minutes....it took us like 30 minutes to walk from there!"
I guess you never really realize how small your town is until you're in a huge city like Munich! Let me back up some...
I didn't get to update last night because we didn't have free wifi, which suited me just fine because we were very tired! We rode trains all morning (we're really getting the hang of the train system!) and got to Rothenburg at 1 pm. Rothenburg is Germany's best-preserved medieval walled town. In fact, the first thing we did once we got there was "walk the wall" to escape the crowds and orient ourselves! It was amazing to be in a city that looked so close to what it did when it was built in the 13th century! It's a somewhat small town, so we got to see most of the highlights that same afternoon which included the market square, Kathe Wolfahrt's christmas shops, St. Jakob's church, the historical town vaults, the covenant garden and (our favorite), the castle garden.
That night we went on the Night Watchman's tour, which was made famous by Rick Steves. There had to have been 200 people following that silly man around! As some of you may know, I'm slightly competitive, so it wasn't long before I fought my way to the front and started chatting him up in between sights. He was very entertaining!
This morning we got up and went back to some of the sights we saw yesterday for a more in-depth look. We went to the top of the Town Hall tower (we're building up some quad muscles...every town has a tower!) and into the Medieval Crime and Punishment museum. The highlight of the day was having a picnic in our favorite spot in Rothenburg, the castle garden.
Then we were off to Munich, and spent most of the night in the Hofbrauhaus eating dinner, drinking beer, chatting with the South Africans on our left and "communicating" with the Koreans on our right (who spoke no English).
Tomorrow we're getting up very early to catch the train to Venice. Let Italy begin!
-Sal
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