No matter how much time I spend planning & budgeting, our trips always seem to wander off track, which I’m totally fine with because it matches our travel style. Our recent trip to Germany & Austria, however, was a unique divergence…we blew our budget on PASTRIES!
I love it when a destination completely surprises me, which is a rare occasion because I tend to research to death every place I visit.
So imagine how happy I was to discover the sleepy town of Freising, Germany, which I picked as our last night for our 14-day Austria/Germany sojourn simply due to its proximity to the Munich airport. I didn’t know anything about the town, other than that it had a brewery [Big deal, right? They seem to be everywhere in Germany] and that I got a decent price for a hotel within walking distance to the train.
Munich is a city of church bells. You can hear them every hour, ringing from every direction, their different tones blending harmoniously with each other.
And if you’re there on trash day, you can also hear the early morning clanking of thousands of beer bottles being dumped into trucks. This of course pairs nicely with the drunk tourists reveling in the streets, pretending they can keep up with the Germans who were weaned on hops.