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We are leaving today, waaah! We reluctantly get up and head down to breakfast, we have the usual selections of fruits bacon and eggs, before going and organizing our things. Our plane to Scotland doesn't leave until 950 tonight, so we have some time to kill, but I couldn't think of a better place to do it! We check out and leave our bags in the hotel storage for the day. They are also kind enough to let us print out out boarding passes on their computers. We set out around 12, in no particular rush, and with no particular plan to do anything. It's a lovely day, and we decide to wander into some shops to look for wushtof knives for Troy. The price is just so much cheaper!! Pretty much half price:) one thing about Munich, there are tones of shopping centers. Just so many! Ones that are expensive that only house Prada and channel, and others that are less expensive that hold h&m and Zara for example. Plus all the main street shops...you wonder into a department store and they are just so unbelievable huge! You'd never know from the outside. We spend a few hours happily looking at all of the products before hunting down a sort of champaign/food deli we had heard about, a "must do for foodies" apparently. We find it, and wow. It's stunning. Both aesthetically and food wise. It's a lovely open style building, with lots of swanky stalls selling different products, wine, cheese, meats, oils, all the good things! We enjoy looking around, and sample a few amazing products. The street it's on its tree lined and lovely, and we find another one of the six beer halls at the end!! It's more of an open/outdoor setting than the HB, we think we will come back here for lunch. We keep walking and it gets better and better! There is a giant market:D and its the best market I've ever seen!! All fresh fruits and veg, German street food at its best! We have a great time wondering around, and find in the centre, hundreds of wooden benched for your picnic! The idea is that you grab a basket, pick what you'd like for lunch, grab a beer, then sit down under the trees. It's so pretty:):) we order a sausage each, and keep waking and oh my gosh, best thing I've ever had possibly! We take photos of all the sites we've seen, then wonder back to the beer hall for lunch. I order veal meatballs with mash and salad, and Troy has pork knuckle with dumplings. Both are brilliant! Aston would love the dumplings! Feeling very full, I suggest we do as the locals do and go lay down in the big park we saw yesterday, but Troy is keen to keep wandering around, so we spend another few hours looking in shops and digesting. We find a third of the six beer halls and can't help but go in for a beer, we make sure we order smalls. Then it's time to head back to collect our bags for the airport. We jump on the subway, all very easy, and get to the airport no problem. We mess around a but with our customs claims (we thought we could do them now) but apparently it's only when you actually leave to go home. Oh well! We wait for about an hour in the lounge, then onto our little plan to Scotland. Troy is quite worried about the size, but I assure him it's still quite big. Quite an uninteresting 3hr flight and we arrive:) we get on a bus, after a nice man tells us which would be the best stop for our street, we settle in for a short half jour ride. We get off the bus feeling pretty tiered and gross, but the sight of Edinburg castle all lite up and right above our heads is magical. We walk to our hostel, check in and go searching for some sort of food at 130am. Not a lot, only Maccas, but it will have to do! We then walk back an brave the shared bathrooms before turning in for a good sleep in our rickety bunkbeds.
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