Munich, Night One...The Hike

Munich was a big shifting of gears from Heidelberg was our first hit you in the face description. We hopped on our train with no problem and were able to navigate the system from Heidelberg with ease at this point. The ride was through some beautiful farmland and only took about three and a half hours or so. Pulling into the Munich Hauptbahnhof (Main Train Station) was utterly impressive, there are more than 30 different regional and long range train terminals, a station for an entire network of suburban servicing trains, and an underground subway system. Thankfully learning which tickets to buy didn't take us much time thanks to our day one adventures.


We then had to figure out some lodgings for the night (knew we overlooked something in the semi-ultimate plan), so we stopped by the Coffee Brothers where we had a raspberry smoothie which also got us 30 whole minutes of internet access. We found a room for 2 for a good price along one of the S-Bahn lines (suburban rail), little did we know that suburban stop was 45 minutes away, putting it about 50 miles outside of Munich. Then looking at the map it looked like a mile walk to the hotel, which we thought would be no problem...until we overshot our turn by about a mile. I would like to think that Google Maps failed us, because the map failed to let us know that the road was named one thing once you got to town, but was something different when we were supposed to turn onto it. Very sore, we eventually made it there after stopping for directions from a friendly firefighter and settled in for the night.