Germany and Czech 2010 - 1

As the first time to visit Europe, I think it's worth to write something for it.

First stop – Munich

19 June 2010 (Sat)

Our first stop was Munich. It was around 7 p.m. when we arrived the airport.

The Munich International Airport

The plane arrived at around 7. But the custom was slow. Long queue as the officer asked quite a lot questions. Luckily we prepared and printed out a copy of our hotel booking email and we gave them the whole copy to them for checking. They asked why we went to Germany, lived in where, stay how many days, how much you brought.

We reached the town by train. It was not a smooth one. We bought the Munich day ticket at the airport at Euro 18.8 (2-5 persons) and got on the train (S1). It was a right train. But on the train we met two HK girls (also to travel) and told us that we got on the wrong train! We took off at the next station and found out that it was the right train… finally we got to our destination – Hauptbanhof.

The weather was much cooler than we expected. And it was raining slightly. I think it was only around 15 degree. Candy and I didn’t bring enough clothing for it.

The S-bahn and U-bahn part of Hauptbanhof is quite old, 暗, and a bit dirty for us when compared to the MTR standard. I was quite grey about that. And we didn’t know the way to our hotel, though it’s only 5 minutes walk from the station. We asked some people, but their English was not so well and we couldn’t get much information from them. It was raining slightly which made the situation worse.

Finally we found the right exit and street after asking an Asian couple (dunno if they are Chinese or Japanese, they can speak English, anyway). On the way an old lady asked me if I can give her some money and I gave her Euro 1 without thinking… she should be professional for asking money from tourists… whatever we got to the hotel finally. We lived in Hotel Eder.

There were 2 people, one middle-aged and one old man, at the reception when we checked in. They were generally nice and could speak good English. I used some hot water to make a cup noodles for my 1^st dinner in Germany. Candy said she was not hungry and didn’t eat anything.

The room was neat and clean and quite big in size. We watched the World Cup. We found out that our plug adaptor was not suitable for the power plug in Germany! We were worried that we could not charge our cameras.

We slept early. We both were exhausted after long hours flight.