Munchen Arrivals
Ok. So. I’ll skip the whole driving from Richmond to Dulles to get the flight and sleeping all the way to Zurich details.
I arrived at Zurich airport Sunday morning at 07.00 (that’s rest of the world time for 7 am). After finding out where I had to go for my transfer to Munich, I walked around the airport shops for a little while. Boy did I suffer sticker shock. Swiss chocolate is expensive in Switzerland. Twice the cost of the same chocolates at the local Target store in Richmond. I’m guessing they send last year’s Easter chocolates to the US.
Had a apfel streussel and double espresso at the cafe ($12 US. See what I mean). Found the gate for my Munich flight.
On arrival in Munich, I found passport control, baggage claim, and the exit in short order. I arrived about two hours before my brother Stuart, so, rather than head for the hotel, I had some more food and waited for his flight to arrive. I was pleased to note that there was a Erdinger Bier bar right outside the exit from the baggage claim. However, I decided not to engage in the frosty barley beverages until Stuart arrived and opted instead to find out where the trains were and how to get downtown.
Stuart arrived a bit more tired than me because he’d flown all the way from LA direct. He was happy that I’d figured out the transport situation, and ready to head for the hotel.
We boarded the S-bahn to downtown. The train goes right to the Hauptbahnhof (Hbf), the central train station of Munich. Convenient, since our hotel is four blocks from there and I’ll be leaving from the Hbf the following Friday to take the train to Amsterdam. So, we found our way out of the Hbf to Bayerstrasse, the street on which we’d find our hotel. Ten minutes later, we were checking in to the A & O Hotel and asking where the nearest biergarten could be found.
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