Wednesday morning, our last full day in Germany. I woke up and was hungry, a little bit hungover and Leighann was much more hungover than I. I realized that we had next to no cash and I got up and walked out the door to grab us some breakfast and coffee. I walked about a block to the only bank machine within visible distance and that machine was out of order. I spent the next hour wandering the streets of Munich before I finally found an ING bank machine. I took out enough cash to last us the next day or so and grabbed coffee, gatorade, croissants and juice.
I walked back to our hotel room and we packed up and checked out of our hotel room. We had hoped to see more of downtown Munich but realized our hotel for the last night was in Freising about 45 minutes north of the city. When we first planned our trip we really had no concept as to how far away the airport and downtown Munich were nor did we really have any concept as to how easy it was to get from downtown Munich to the airport. So on the suggestion of a friend, we decided our last night in Munich we'd spend very close to the airport so the next morning we did not have to wake up super early in order to get to the airport. In hindsight we would have most definitely been better off staying 2 nights at the English Garden Marriott as I'm a bit distrusting of bus station lockers, the continuity of having the same hotel room in the same city for mulitple days is huge for a traveller. We had debated checking into our hotel in Freising and then coming back down to Munich but knowing we wanted to get to the Airport for 8:30 AM the next day and we'd want to get up for 6AM we thought by the time we got back downtown it'd be close to 4 PM so we instead decided to check in, grab some lunch in the village and then wander around do some souvenir shopping before coming back to the hotel for a nice final evening meal. We had also decided that our hotel was about a 15 minute walk from the train station so we'd be better of just paying the 11 Euro fee to grab the Airport shuttle directly from the Freising Marriott.
The Freising Marriott was nice, but it was kind of dated. It had the feel of a WWII Bavarian Inn. The tvs were not flat panels. We checked in and then found an outdoor cafe. Munich being only a few hours from the Italian border has quite a bit of Italian influences so we found an Italian Cafe to have lunch. Our server actually turned out to be a man of Middle Eastern descent from Mississauga who had recently moved to Freising to help out his brother. We ordered a pizza and of course beer- Freising has the world's oldest brewery, Weihenstephanner founded in the 11th Century. We had debated checking it out but didn't have the patience to sit through a lengthy tour. We wandered around the local shops, again I noticed the prevalence of Jack Wolfskin's the German version of Mountain Equipment Co-Op. We went into the German equivalent of the K-Mart, I was really tempted to buy a 10 Euro bottle of Jagermeister but didn't think it'd survive in my luggage. Instead we bought a couple bags of World Cup M&M's (red black and gold) and a few other souvenirs/useful items. We wandered around the streets of what is really quite a lovely little village before heading back to the hotel.
We got back to the hotel and changed into some nice clothes, by now it was close to 6 PM we decided to go down to the hotel restaurant and have our last supper in Germany. I wanted spargel but I also wanted the grill platter, I basically ended up ordering 2 meals and both came with massive portions of potatoes neither of which I ate. Again a lot of Bavarian food is seemingly fatty, but it's all organic, no steroids or any genetic modifications so really all quite tasty.
After a large supper we wanted to walk it off so we headed back into town to see if we could find a place to get some coffee and dessert. We found a cafe but the woman only spoke German and Italian, luckily there was a server there who spoke English we enjoyed an espresso before wandering back to our hotel room. We packed up and then walked downstairs to the hotel pool to enjoy a sauna and a swim. We went back to our room and enjoyed a fairly quiet evening again amused by episodes of South Park in German and ads for "Rage Against the Machine Metallica undt Justin Bieber".
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