Day 1: PEN-BKK-MUC
When I was young, my parents only brought me to SEA countries; they wanted me to earn my own money to travel west. Now, after working for 15 months, I’ve saved enough to pay for my own flight tickets and a little extra money to spend for our 5-year anniversary in Germany. We both decided to go Germany in conjunction with their Oktoberfest, one of the most celebrated events of the year in Munich.
We traveled to Munich via Bangkok by Thai Airways. People used to complain about “plain” food on board, but we really doubted that…. They served seafood and omelets for breakfast, roast pork with rice for lunch, and pork with noodles again for dinner. While flying over Afghanistan, we looked down at a terrain we only used to see from Google maps – red soil all over with very little clouds. “Oh…so that’s how desserts look like.”
Being on flight for long hours are not really fun, especially sitting in the economy class seats. But I felt slightly better as I witnessed the most beautiful sunset with mountain ranges lid from the side with long shadows. After 11h 20m of flight, we finally landed smoothly in a foreign land but sadly they speak a different tongue – Dutch. Getting soaked with people who are naturally blonde and bigger build we felt like children again.
We have to take a bahn to the city center. Not knowing their system, we just see how the other commuters use their ticket machine, and follow suit. In the train we saw this cute little dog that always sit closely with it's owner. Wonder how I can train my own Yang2 to be to tame.
With no prior bookings, we were left stranded without any accommodation for the evening. The information counters were clueless and some of them already had their blinds down. After hours of asking and trying, we managed to get to Munich’s Hauptbahnhof (Main Train Station). Both of us were clueless, but I couldn’t just let Irene sleeps on the streets again like how we did when we dated for the 1st time in Johor Bahru 5 years ago.
After enquiring a few hotels, we managed to find a hotel opposite the Hbf that quoted us €122 (RM 590) inclusive of breakfast. Anything sounded reasonable for 2 people who had been on the plane all day, and was hunger for a proper bed to lie down. Good thing was that it’s walking distance from the train station – their main means of transportation. After leaving our things in the room, we went back to the Hbf for a bite. Like dad says, the water is more expensive than beer. One shop asks €2 from me just for a cup of hot water. Siao~! So we had to go for beer instead of mineral water.
In the evening, we took a walk to Karlplatz and Marienplatz. While taking pictures of their unique buildings, the locals showed us with their friendliness by coming into the picture. There were a few instances that they just came over and hugged us, even our close friends never do the same to us in Malaysia. Yet, we were also alert about security and kept our valuables close to us – you can never be over precautious. We went back after midnight as we had a long week ahead of us.
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