Germany!

Munich 25 January 2013

Arrived at Flughafen Munich, activate our Eurail Pass at Db Bahn counter. Then we started our journey in Germany.

The hostel? Just 3 to 5 minutes travel by metro rail. The place named Goethenplatz. Usually outskirt accommodations are quite cheaper. The hostel we stayed named Smart Stay, which I recommend you to stay because of two things the price and the services they provided. They have a nice, tidy kitchen with a comfortable bed and room. The showers are looked new and maintain very well. From five, I give them four.

Price per night € 10

Because of the exhausted of flight traveling, we just get shower, eat and sleep for the next day.

Munich 26 January 2013

First thing first get up and perform solah. After that breakfast at early 6 am. Because of the winter season the shops and others open late we just mingle around the Goethenplatz until 9 am. From there, we pick the farthest point to visit which is Allianz Arena home ground of Bayern Munchen Football Club. The stadium is highly fantastic in their design. Although the weather quite cold, our passion in football doesn't stop it. There you can have stadium tour and shopping at the megastore.

Next, we are heading to Olimpiapark which was one of the Olympic Park in 1972. The park are visited by many people, mainly local citizen to play snow and toboggan. The park is one of the major story in Olympic history when the games were hugely overshadowed by what known as ”Munich Massacre”. Moreover, our country boycott that Olympic Games and did’not sent our team especially football team which was the only chance, we got in decades.

BMW museum and welt is situated near the park. There you can enjoy riding your dream car but only sitting on the seat. In the welt, there is a tour for people who want to know how BMW built their most luxurious car.(I did not enter it)

Now we are heading to city centre, first to Marienplatz. The parliament building. It looks classical classy and antique. The buildings are still used by the government. Munich also known as the central city of Christian religion which you could see many  of the classic buildings are church.

From Marienplatz, there is a market nearby, Viktualinmarket. In summer, the daytime is longer, and it better. We just get there to buy some apple chips and dinner in Nordsee; the seafood restaurant.

We went into few churches to see what interesting in there. Fortunately, we came in as the ceremony of twilight was starting. The organs were playing while songs were sung really gave me goose bump. Why not enter to gain experience, right? We walked towards the end of the street which is Karltorr the city gates on the past Munchen history. On the other side of the city, there is a theater stage; Great Chancellor Hall and on that night they held a show (I do not know the title).

There tour does not finish until we gone shopping. In Germany generally, the electronics appliances are quite cheap. The souvenir, a little bit expensive. We just wandering around the Kaufinger street and done window shopping. 

After that, we have a cup of coffee at the nearest coffee shop until there is no people at the streets at early 8 pm. How early the shops closed. Well you have to face winter. Shops open late close early. 9 am – 8 pm. The bars and pub are open until the early in the morning.  We head back to the Munchen Haubanthof at 9.30 pm. It is actually early but we play safe in case the train schedule change. We wait for half an hour until the night city train arrive and we board it.

At 8 am nearly arrive to Berlin Haupbanhof  an aunt greet on of my friends and told it will be cold outside there in berlin in much more colder in this kind of whether. She said like that when saw him wore a t-shirt and thin jacket while sleeping on the train. She also said that if that day she help us, maybe someday others will help her child. The kind Russian aunt left the terminal after saying goodbye to us.

Berlin 27 January 2013

Everyone blur after we were arrived and we decided to freshen up and take breakfast. First thing first, we came back to the main plan in berlin. We choosen the farthest place to go first  which is Olympia Stadion Berlin. It was an amazing experience when you go there. The size, the structure, the history all of them were so significant to the world history. It was one of the camp for the nazis back in 1940s.

After that, we went to the west berlin which is the Charlouttenberg Palace. They said it was the summer palace for the king but nowadays it just a museum for tourist to visit. Yeah of course its a big palace.

Then, the most important place in berlin. Berlin Wall, East Side Gallery. There are many stories about the wall. Its divided east and west side of germany. The wall has only one gate that connect them which is called Checkpoint Charlie. Now it only left the sample of the situation how they travel through it.

In winter, the daytime is very short. We went to Alexanderplatz. It was the busiest square in germany back in 19th century. There are some monument and Fernsehtrum:Tv tower.

We go on to Bradenburger Tor: Berlin’s City Wall. It is build in the symbol of reunified Berlin city. In past years. The wall is used to defend Berlin from enemy and the main entrance into the city. 

Walk 5 minutes to the west we reach Reichstag, Parliamentary Building. On our back to metro station we stop by on Holocaust Memorial. Take a few minutes and moving on to the Berlin Hauptbanhof. And its the of our journey in Germany.