From Interlaken to Zurich to Munich

Yesterday morning we woke up in Interlaken and had a nice breakfast at the Rugenpark Hotel. We changed our plans a little and left a few hours early so we could stop off in Zurich Switzerland for a few hours.

This is a street long the river in Zurich. What a beautiful city!

We stopped at a small café and had a couple beers.

When we got back on the train from Zurich to Munich we ended up sharing a compartment with and older German woman who at first I though wasn’t interested in talking. But soon after we left the station I found out that she did speak very good English. We had a weekly English conversation group where that got together to practice. She had done a similar thing with Italian some years ago. I’m so impressed with how everyone here speaks multiple languages, and not just because they have to, but because they enjoy it. In America people seem to revel in not speaking other languages. We talked for a few hours about all kinds of things, politics, religion, history of Germany. I was very happy to have this experience.

Once we got to Munich it was very easy to get to our hotel. It is right across the street from the train station. Here is a picture from our hotel of the street below n front of the station.

Once we got settled into the hotel we went for a walk down the main pedestrian only street that runs though the middle on Munich. It was kind of quite being a Monday night and all but we still had a good time. We had dinner and beers at the Hofbräuhaus.

We just had breakfast this morning on day 5 of our trip. We are planning on heading down to Octoberfest. It is raining right now, so I hope it clears up later in the day. We will have more for you this evening I guess.