I heart Bavaria

bavaria is amazing. Not only are the germans really really nice but the culture is just so fantastic...laid back, a little bit alcoholic but ther architecuter of munich was so lovely, the weather was perfect and the city nice, so clean, the trams and trains amazing. Germany and Austria have such excellent train systems, always on time and so clean! I really had no expectations of Germany and this worked out for my benefit becasue I really like it so much, i feel like i must go back to germany some day...every place so quaint. I want to go back and see Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt and back to Munich, the first place I really felt like I didn't have enough time to spend there. We decided to go on a bike tour that day, even though it was a national german holiday and nothing was open...we went on a free bike tour that relied on tips, we had a funny but obnoxious tour guide from ireland. the bike tour was fantastic. we saw so many wonderful things and leanred so much, the weiredest thing is the nazi history that previals throughout germany, you can see that they have really tried to make up for some of their horrendous past...but munich was where hitler started his first political rebellions and where a lot of stuff happened, and a lot of it at the hofbrau house. more later....in florence now