What a day. What a night, what a day, what a brutal day.
So, at 10:51 PM we caught an overnight train from Venice to Munich. We had a sleeper car with 6 bunk beds; luckily the other 2 didn’t show up so it was just Wayne, Kim, Andrea, and I. Wayne and Kim had brought along 1 liter water bottles, filled with Italian wine, and their laptop, filled with movies. Andrea climbed into the bottom bunk right away to try to sleep. Wayne, Kim, and I (Matt) set the laptop up to watch “A Bronx Tale” and started sharing the first bottle of wine.
We finished that first movie (and the first bottle of wine), and went through a second bottle of wine watching the beginning of “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.” At that point it was getting very late (about 2 AM, train arriving in Munich around 6 AM), so we went to bed.
Unfortunately that whole time Andrea wasn’t able to sleep. Around 3 AM her upset stomach came to a head, and I next awoke to her struggling to open the cabin door. To say the least, the next hour or so was very difficult, having an upset stomach on a moving train.
When we finally arrived in Munich, everybody wanted to go straight to bed. We dragged our bags to the Arthotel Munich, zombie style, and tried to check in. It was about 7 AM. We were told we could get into the rooms around 2 PM, no sooner. Very much not what we were hoping for. We camped down in the lobby and tried to sleep in the little rectangular armchairs, burning about an hour and a half (with very little sleep) doing so. Then we decided to get some breakfast, and walked around in a very cold morning looking for a place to eat. We finally found an open McDonald’s and ducked in. Andrea had a Sprite (wisely not risking much more) and I had eggs, bacon, and an English muffin. But it all tasted like mush, still moving zombie style.
We wandered back to the hotel, now about 9:45 AM. We once again tried to sleep in the lobby, but as more and more people piled up (also trying to check in, or checking out), it became more and more difficult. Thankfully the staff was able to get us into our rooms around 11:45 AM, and we trudged off to try to sleep.
Andrea stayed in the room for the rest of the day, trying to sleep off the apparent bug that was living in her tummy. I slept for a few hours, then headed out with Wayne, Kim, and Clare (who’d arrived while we were sleeping) to grab a bite to eat.
We ended up at Augustiner in downtown Munich, where I had Wienerschnitzel “Vienna style” (breaded pork with fries) and a beer ending in the word “hell” (representative of the day), which I would later learn is simply German for “Light.” Everything was fantastic, slightly less zombie style, and we wandered a bit of Munich just a little more.
Highlights heading back to the hotel: Stores called Sexyland and Schmuckparty. We’re having fun in Germany. 🙂
matt & andrea 