Day 19 – 15th August 2014 – Munich

It’s a public holiday today, so the roads where quiet, but a lot of the train stations were still busy. No idea how many trains we caught today and how many ups and downs we did, but it was a lot, lol. Mind you we still managed to walk 17.5 kms, so not much resting today. We started off by walking along the river Isar for a little while, such a fast flowing river and lots of water in it. Wandered over to a lovely, enormous park named the English Garden. It was full of trees, grassed areas, water and pathways. Another park and then headed back to the hotel for lunch and a short rest. We had been trying to solve a puzzle so we could find a cache, so having finally solved it, we headed for that next. Then on to another large park on the map, near the famous Statue of Bavaria and the Hall of Fame. Maria will laugh at this, but most of it was fenced off for the setting up of the big Oktoberfest festival, which is held in September. Maria & I hit Sydney Olympic Park earlier this year to find most of it fenced off for the Royal Easter Show!

Couple of interesting train observations today. There is one line where you get on the train on the left and have to exit on the right. Must be great in peak hour! The other was that we caught several trains that were just one very long train, no carriages, just the moving floor & walls at the joins, lol, it was quite a sight sitting at the front end and looking all the way back to the unseeable end, especially around curves!

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