Solo Trip to Europe: Munich - Part 5

Today is shopping day.

Slightly before 9, I made my way to Sofitel where I'm supposed to take the bus to ingolstad. 

The bus was quite nice and we even passed by BMW welt to pick up more people. The place is huge and I was so tempted to go there to take a look. 

When we got to ingolstad, the information told me that Audi museum is not really that near and I would need to take a taxi. I decided to forgo that and I started shopping. 

The WMF is damn cheap here! So is Birkenstock but they are so ugly.  It took me less than 2 hrs to finish shopping and the bus is only picking us up at 3:30pm.

Lucky the weather is sunny today, I had coffee and my ciggie outside to kill time. 

I think I might not have bought so much if I didn't have so much time, I just went into almost all the shops just to see see look look. 

Finally the bus came and we got back to Munich by around 5pm. I bought some food and went back to the hotel to drop off my stuff and became too lazy to go out again. 

So I ended up packing my luggage. Lucky I brought along an additional bag otherwise I won't have enough space in my luggage. 

Solo Trip to Europe: Munich - Part 4

The plaster is a miracle! I woke up this morning and I can move my toe without feeling much pain. It felt less swollen too. Thank god as I need to walk a bit today to the Neuschwanstein castle.

I set off for the train station early as I wanted to catch the 8:53am train. Went to the counter to buy my ticket and got all the direction I needed. The only thing I need to do before boarding the train is to validate my ticket. I have less than 10 min to do so and I was trying frantically to find where I can validate the ticket. After asking several times, I finally found it. It was just a small machine while I was expecting someone with a manned counter. 

I got onto the train and It seemed that there were a number of people on the train are also going to the castle from what I overheard.  I felt a bit unprepared as I don't have any map showing how many stops etc.  I prayed hard that the weather would be good since most part of the journey was raining. 

It was relatively easy though with the information I found on the internet. I saw this chinese guy and went to talk to him. Turned out he's from China. We were so awed when we saw the first sight of the castle from the bus. 

I could only booked the 1:25pm English tour. So much time to kill and it started raining again. I decided to go have a hot drink in the cafe to kill time.

When I was warm enough and the sun came out again, I went to walk around the town and finally took a rare photo of myself. 

I took the bus up to the castle. Lucky as the information stated that it will take around 45 min to walk up. No way am I gonna risk hurting my feet again. 

I got off the bus and went to the bridge where you get the best picture of the castle.  Can't wait to go up close. 

There's a bit more walking before reaching the castle and I practically run as it was really close to the tour time but I made it in time.

The tour took about 30 min and we got to see some of the castle such as the king'a bedroom, servant room, etc. It was beautiful, all the paintings and carvings. 

After the tour I made my way back Munich. One day gone just like that.

Tomorrow is the last day and I was wondering if I should go ingolstad village or BMW Welt. In the end I decided to go shopping instead and see if I can make it to Audi museum since it's also in ingolstad. Will leave BMW to next visit. 

Solo Trip in Europe: Munich - Part 3

My flight was very early and I missed the hotel breakfast. I thought I would buy the cinamon bun to eat on the train but no time.  Their cinamon bun is super duper nice, unlike the one I tried in Bergen which sucks.

The train was pretty fast though I panicked a bit when the announcement came that the train will be making 2 stops. How the hell do I know which one should I alight? Lucky there was a booklet in the train which tells you which terminals are located in which stop. 

Sometimes I really like the European airports, so self service. You go to the machines and print out your own boarding pass and luggage tags then proceed to drop your checked in baggage. No queue at all. The only queue is at the immigration check.

While waiting for the plane, I tried to look for cinamon bun again but my leg was so tired that I ended up eating their burger instead - Max Burger. Taste pretty good. 

When the plane was landing, I was so happy to see that it's bright and sunny in Munich. I had enough of grey and gloomy weather. 

Now I have to figure out the way to take the train to the main station. There is no manned counter to buy tickets and the machine seems to complicated.  I was at one of the machine trying to figure out a way to buy my ticket when this lady offered to give me her ticket which is still valid for the day as she's departing already. Woohoo, such a nice gesture. 

Once again, I felt lost when I got to the main station, which way should I go to get to the hotel?  I'm smarter this time though, so I used GPS to make my way to the hotel. 

The hotel took in Munich is so much nicer, bigger and there's a kettle! I can finally have my instant noodle, need to offload them to make space in my luggage. 

After resting a short while, I headed out. I decided to walk to Marienplatz. Since I've been resting my feet. I thought should be ok. Haiz, after a while, my toes was hurting a lot. But I persisted. So I just walked around and also found the market. So nice, so crowded and so much nice food. I love Munich!

The weather here is rather unpredictable though, one hour it's sunny, then it started raining for around 30 min and it stopped and became sunny again. 

By now, my feet really hurt, I desperately looked for a pharmacy so that I can buy nail cutter to cut open the blister. I bought a blister plaster (I think it is since it looked like the 3M one back in Singapore) and also found a nail cutter. 

After I got back to the hotel, I couldn't find the 水泡. So I just decided to stick the plaster. 

I started reading more about the castle which I planned to visit tomorrow. I decided to go on an earlier train to beat the crowd. Hopefully I won't get lost!