Guten Tag from Munich
Jan 16th, 2007 by darryl
Saturday night, I took off for Munich Germany for my first trip overseas. Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get much sleep on the plane in cattle class due to the noise. However, I ended up on a Lufthansa flight, which was actually pretty good. Needless to say, after my transfer in Frankfurt to Munich my ass was dragging from lack of sleep. However, since I was trying to get adjusted to the time, I didn’t go to sleep right away. I went exploring in downtown Munich with a co-worker to see some of the sights (pictures will come once I find a cable to hook up to the camera, since I left the cable which came with it at home). Once I finished the sightseeing tour, we had some dinner at the expensive hotel resturant, then I slept for about 10 hours. However, I am still a bit tired, but mostly adjusted to the time zone.
For interest’s sake, I will mention the few differences in Germany that I have noticed.
- Bicycle lanes are part of the sidewalk, instead of the street (or just in Munich) so if you don’t watch where you are standing, you may get mowed down by a cyclist. This almost happened to me a couple times yesterday, since I was standing in the cyclist lane on the sidewalk.
- Toilets don’t seem to have a tank on them, and the button to flush them is a massive button on the wall.
- The Munich train system is awesome, they are always on schedule, and you can get anywhere in the city, unlike Toronto.
- Most drinking water is carbonated, so finding plain water is more difficult. Next time, I may pack a case of Dasani for my trip.
Try asking for “flat” water. In England we had the option of flat or fizzy and if you didn’t specify, they assumed fizzy.
We had the same problem in eastern Europe. They also added all sorts of nutrients to the water, the big one was calcium.
Even when we looked in the grocery stores, we were stuck with that stuff.
- yupp, bicycLe Laness tend to be Like that.
- the toiLets do have a tank, it’s just in the waLL.
- apparentLy your definition of aLways on time is different from mine.
- ze germans tend to expect that you drink carbonated (mit Kohlensäure) water, you shouLd be abLe to ask for non-carbonated (ohne Kohlensäure). if you are Looking in a shop, water bottLes with Less carbonation tend to be green, cLear ones tend to have (a Lot of) carbonation.