MUENCHEN

munich was a blast. julia is the best host and i miss her so much. i convinced her to come to barcelona in june before i leave!

we saw the city the first couple days and it was pretty cool. i feel like the people there aren't as open as here in barca, so it was a little different. the waiters at the restaurant also weren't so friendly and at several of the restaurants we had to ask multiple times for service. but the FOOD WAS AMAZING! haha of course, it is always amazing. but very different too.

we had a "traditional breakfast" which consisted of: white sausages with sweet mustard to dip in, massive soft pretzels, and a liter beer mixed with sprite. that is a normal breakfast. sausage for breakfast? but it was tasty. we ate a lot of pizza too which was everywhere. we also went to a few biergartens (beer gardens) and they have these soft pretzels with the best cream cheese you will ever taste! the biergartens are fun because they are always full and you just have to squeeze into any table and you will make friends with everyone else at the table.

the "downtown" part of the city didn't seem as big as i thought it would be. it was very very busy though. the shopping is also really expensive, so i didn't get much. but i had to get a souvenir! i got a little purse and a top. plus i stole a glass from the biergarten, now i can have a liter of whatever i want at home ;)

during the days we went to a ton of parks and gardens, i love the green there! there's more than here and the gardens are all beautiful. they have a lot of rivers too. we went to the Nymphenburg Castle which was so big and so pretty. the backyard took us an hour to get all the way to the end. the garden was so big you had to pay extra just to get in. and he had a greenhouse with a room for like every country.

 with a moat and everything!

we also went to the oldest part of munich, and it was super quiet but really really pretty. the whole city of munich was so colorful which was my favorite part. they will have a lavender building next to an orange next to a teal colored one. we rode bikes around there so it was nice. the weather was actually really nice the whole time i was there, and not cold!

we also went to her school and walked around and inside it looked like a museum! so old and so pretty. the architecture there is beautiful. we even went to the Dachau concentration camp. it was the first one and also the one they based all the others off of. it was really really interesting. we talk about the camps every year in school but i feel like i learned more just from that one day visiting it. we were there for about three hours. it brought me back down to earth.

this is why europeans are so smart! they can go everywhere so easily and physically see everything and learn everything first-hand.

we went to an 80's party that was julia's boyfriend's cousin's birthday, got that? it was so fun though! i just borrowed some of her clothes. all the people were super friendly though so it was nice and they all loved speaking english to me.

i didn't miss anything at school so it was perfect! nothing to worry about. and now i am running out of money so i think prague will be my last trip. i still have granada next weekend too!

we got to try on dirndls! pictures were forbidden but we were sneaky