Munich and Salzburg!

I’ve been lazy. I can’t help but let the hours pass me by and discover at least one more thing to do to procrastinate my readings, emails, and blog.

But, I’ve finally settled down, caught up on some sleep and, reluctantly, homework, and am ready to talk about my weekend in Munich and Salzburg! You know it’s a great weekend when you not only hit up two cities in two days, but two countries. Phew.

SO. Friday was basically a day of trains and traveling. And, in my opinion, one of the best times I have had so far. We ran from the chateau to the Differdange train station, then the train in Luxembourg to our first train to Trier. It is very difficult living in a country where most announcements are either in German or Luxembourgish. However, we have all adjusted very well and have learned to just tune out all announcements and wing it. A great strategy, honestly. So, despite Ally’s desperate cries to try to listen to the announcement we all continued with our card games and Sound of Music viewings. That was, until the conductor came down the rows and explained, in broken English, that a train in front of us had broken down so we had to get out at an earlier stop and find a bus to Trier. Which would take as an extra hour. And our connection was in around a half hour. Uh oh.

So, our large group, backpacks on, water bottles in hand, and an unbroken spirit, found a German bus across the border, and slowly but surely made it to Trier station. To our unshocked dismay, we had missed our connection. After a few minutes of lost in translation directions, we hopped on another train, and had instructions to get of in Schweic, Germany.

Now, a lot of Europe is gorgeous. Stunning, really. Quaint old towns or impressive sky scrapers or star striking nature. Schweic is not on that list. Let’s just say we were a little nervous with graffiti lined walls, boarded windows, and stray Rottweilers. After thirty minutes of agonizing worry that we would be stuck in Schweic for the night, our train came. Thus began our long winded trip to Munich.

The train ride was amazing fun. The girls took a car to themselves for a little while and enjoyed conversation and a few glasses of wine. On our second connection train, we started to make friends. We sat in a car with two Japanese tourists who spoke very little, hardly any, English. Good news: they knew Lady Gaga and Backstreet Boys. Thus began our blasting music, screaming song lyrics, and laughing hysterically leg of the trip. The boys said they could hear us all singing all the way down the train. My abs hurt from the laughing workout.

Eventually, after four connections, including a bus, we made it successfully to Munich, Germany and checked into our hostel, the Wombats.