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Munich, Last Day

We took a couple different routes on the Hop-Off-Hop-Off buses so I feel like we really got to see a lot of the city. That includes Marienplatz, St. Michael’s church, the eternal flame monument for those lost in WWII, Nymphenburg Palace, Olympic Park where we went to the top of the tower, a market where we saw a maypole,  Odeonsplatz, and the English Gardens. The gardens were beautiful, and we stumbled across a place where apparently a lot of people go to surf the little waves coming out from under the bridge.

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Train to Munich

Spent most of the day on the 7 hour train ride which was a new experience for me and everything went very smoothly so it was very good. When we got to Munich we went to the Hofbräuhaus beer hall where we had some very good wiener schnitzel and strudel. It began raining while we were there so we went back to the hotel and called it an early night.

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Passau

We docked in Passau this afternoon. We walked around the city, as we were walking some of the stones were painted and apparently they show where art galleries can be found, and we went to where the three rivers converge as Passau is also called the “City of Three Rivers.” For lunch we went to a little cafe looking out on the Danube where I had some typical Bavarian food: juice with sparkling water and a sort of strudel with spinach, egg, goat cheese, and yogurt. We visited St. Peter’s Cathedral which has the biggest organ in a cathedral, and then I hiked up to the fortress Veste Oberhaus. On our way back to the ship we stopped by a local beer festival.

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Amsterdam > Regensburg

It was a long travel day today, we took a car from Amsterdam to Regensburg. We made a stop in Würzburg for lunch and stopped by the Residenz Palace. In Regensburg we met our cruise ship going down the Danube, The A with U by Uniworld, and got situated and then went back out and explored Regensburg a little bit.

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Starting Our Way Home

We didn’t have to leave until after 10 today which was very nice, then we flew back into Frankfurt and spent the rest of the day in a hotel near there. Finally got to fulfill dream of riding in a double decker bus since one picked us up from the airport to take us to the hotel!

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Exploring Rothenburg

We had a very free day today, and we had done a lot last night already, so we just walked around all the shops. We visited the Christmas shop which was actually pretty cool. We had our last concert in the square and then after dinner we played exploding kittens in our fancy balcony. Since it’s most people’s last night in Europe, we had a celebration thing where we all just gathered together to watch the slideshow from all the bus cameras.

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Drive to Rothenburg

On our way to Rothenburg, Germany, we made a stop at the Dachau Concentration Camp. It definitely gives you a different perspective actually being over where the war was fought and seeing the places from it rather than just hearing about it or watching videos in history class. I think I also got something more out of it after learning more about the Holocaust from the play And A Child Shall Lead.

Rothenburg is a really quaint town; it still has its medieval feel to it, especially with its surrounding wall and towers. We took a night watchman tour, and the guy was pretty funny and made it really interesting to learn about the history of the town. Then we walked along the top of the tower wall which was really cool.