Our European Adventure, Day 14

I slept in this morning because we didn’t really have anything to do today. Once I woke up, I went downstairs to use the internet and wait for everyone else to wake up.


I got bored after awhile and tried to go souvenir shopping, but I found out that it was a bank holiday today and pretty much every place around town was closed except for the places in the train station, restaurants, and hotels. I ended up just going back to the room and, since the rest of them were up by then, we went out on a mission to find a pharmacy that sold a thermometer for Matt. We weren’t successful though because apparently pharmacies close on bank holidays in Europe too.

We did manage to find a nice steak restaurant on our jaunt around town. We ended up eating at the Marriott’s restaurant. Ben and I had steak, fries, and wine, while Madeline had fish. On the way back to the hotel, we picked up orange juice and water for Matt. We spent some time in the hostel room after and I sorted through the receipts for the trip and put them in date order.

The inside of the restaurant - it was pretty swanky

The cute bowls they delivered our dipping sauces in

My huge, delicious steak

At 2 o’clock, we walked over to the main train station to go on our Hop-On Hop-Off Sightseeing Tour. It was actually really lame though because the bus never really stopped long enough to take pictures and we weren’t exactly interested in any of the sights or the places it stopped. It was also really crowded. I wanted to get off in the shopping district, but everything was closed because of the bank holiday. We did get off on the fifth stop though and visited the Hard Rock Café of Munich. We had some appetizers and drinks that came in souvenir mugs we got to keep and since we spent over 30 Euros we were able to get Matt a free luggage tag as his souvenir.

Our fruity drinks at the Hard Rock

Stuffed after our appetizers, we went back to the hotel and napped. When we woke up, we decided to go out to dinner at a steak restaurant we found a few blocks away. Unfortunately, the steak restaurant didn't serve much else so Madeline ended up needing to compromise on her choice in food. I'm just glad that I managed to persuade them away from ethnic food on this trip. I would prefer to eat either familiar foods or native foods when travelling. It seems safer, especially when one of us is already suffering from a strange food poisoning/stomach flu mixture.

Our dinner steak, notice the size difference