JPNMonday
To be honest, I didn't do much planning before coming to Germany.
The only plan I had was to go to Munich today, so I had the ticket already purchased from the internet.
What I didn't have in plan was that I had to wake up at 4:50 in the morning... I was very sleepy.
I caught the 7:12 ICE train from Frankfurt Hbf.
I didn't want to sleep in the train, as I thought if I sleep, I'll be wasting my holiday, an opportunity to learn.
So, I was looking outside the train window... and fell asleep.
Good news was that my seat was in this separate compartment, perhaps because I booked well in advance.
The bad news was that when I entered this room, this man was sitting in my seat, deep asleep.
I didn't want to risk my life by waking him, so I just gave in and sat in the opposite.
I arrived at 10:50 (which was spot on the train's time table).
I thought it would be a good idea to buy my return ticket first, so I went to the ticket office.
Then I was told that the cheapest available ticket for tomorrow was 65 euros...
Apparently, the "summer special" discounted price is only available if you book three days in advance.
I thought it would be silly to pay 65 euros and go back already tomorrow, so I decided to stay an extra day and leave on Wednesday.
Luckily, there was a 29 euro ticket for Wednesday and I bought this one.
But there was a catch - I had to change three times and the journey takes 6 hours...
Anyway, as I was exhausted by this unexpected happening, I decided to have lunch.
I was very hungry, without taking any photographs along the way, I came to this beer garden kind of place called Hofbrauhaus.
Well, when you think about Germany, there's two things that come up in my mind,
one is sausage, which I already had in Frankfurt,
and the other is German beers, which I haven't had until this stage.
So, I ordered a beer and some pork saute.
It was good.
This Hofbrauhaus was quite big, there was a courtyard (where I ate) and the building was two stories high.
There were some musicians as well, which kind of adds to the atmosphere.
I got out and did my usual stuff - walked around and took photographs
This Rathaus (city council building) was very impressive.
It was a beautiful day.
In most of the Germany cities, there are trams, which is good for the environment than buses.
Well, German people are environmentally concious people indeed (but I guess they built them when environmental issues were not a bi g probmem).
This monumental building is called Feldherrnhalle, which was the scene of Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch", in 1923.
It's not open to the public.
I really liked Munich, it has a good balance between modern and old.
I went to Neue Pinakothek, situated in the north west of the city.
As the name implies, they had mostly 19-20th century paintings,
the older ones are in Alte Pinakothek, standing opposite of Neue Pinakothek.
They had quite a few German paintings, I enjoyed it very much.
I got out of the gallery and went into the shop and bought this chocolate called Kinder.
Once, I saw someone eating this chocolate in the train which looked very nice and wanted to eat it ever since.
Well, it was a normal milk chocolate.
But generally speaking, I think German chocolates taste good.
Having said that, I never came across any chocolates that doesn't taste good.
In conclusion, all chocolates taste good.
From Neue Pinakothek, I walked to the east to Haus der kunst, a modern art gallery.
They were doing two exhibitions, one was called "Frans Post, Painter of Paradise Lost" and the other
"A View for the People - Art for All".
I didn't have money to enter both, so I read the summary of the exhibitoins and compared, and at the end, I chose Frans Post's exhibition.
Frans Post was a 17 century painter (which itself was interesting to be featured in the modern gallery); he was born in Netherland
and from the age of 25, he lived in Brazil for ten years.
Upon his return, he drew many paintings of Brazilian landscapes; at the time, such drawings were very rare and so his paintings sold very well.
The exhibition contained about 30 paintings by Post and there were some modern displays along with the same topic - Brazil.
Yeah, I enjoyed it.
Since it was getting dark, I decided to go to the youth hostel.
I arrived in the youth hostel at around 8pm.
I logged on to the internet and realised that ACCA sent me an e-mail, saying that I've passed the final exams.
So that was it, the end of two and half years of study, at first I couldn't really grasp the truth.
I went into the pub next to the youth hostel and ordered a beer and had a small celebration on my own.
I couldn't stop praisng God.
Thank you.
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