Thursday, August 2, 2007

Suasages, sour kraut, beer...must be Germany

When we got into Munich, we had some free time to walk around the city. At this point in the trip, I felt I had done enough historical sight seeing, and I was happy to just hang out and try the local cuisine. I had a bratwurst for lunch with sour kraut and mustard on it. It was wonderful. Then I went with some friends to the beer garden, which was completely packed at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on a Wednesday. Makes me proud to be German. After that, we got some cheap beers from a convenience store and just walked around the streets of Munich since it is legal to have open containers.

That night, we went to the Hofbrauhaus, which I had been looking forward to for the entire trip. We ate dinner, and enjoyed a folk show upstairs. I was amazed at just how many 40 oz. beer steins our waitress could carry around. She has guns! I drank big Dunkels and it was everything I thought it could be. After the show, a lot of us went downstairs to drink some more until closing time around midnight. I also took some time to buy myself a HB beer stein. Germany was really cool, and I wish we could have spent more time there.

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