We saved the art museums for today for two reasons:#1 admission is only 1euro today... and #2 it was forecasted to rain all day.So after sleeping in a bit, we headed for the first museum on our list: the Alte Pinakothek.I was pretty sure I was going to like the Neue Pinakothek, with works dating from the 18th and 19th century, better, but Rick Steeves had talked a lot about how cool the Alte Pinakothek is, so we figured we should check it out. We had the m...

I'm not sure what happened exactly, but for whatever reason my alarm decided not to go off this morning so we definitely overslept... whoops! It wasn't a huge deal, but we did have to hustle to get ready in time to meet up with our tour group at the Hauptbahnhof by 9:15. Neuschwanstein, the castle that King Ludwig II build and Disney copied for the Cinderella Castle, is located in a small town near the German Austrian border called Füssen. It's about an hour ...

I arrived in Munich around 11pm last night. Nathan, who had been traveling on his own for the past week or so, had arrived a bit earlier and was waiting for me at the Hauptbahnhof. It was storming like crazy, so I was pretty happy we had booked a hostel just a block away from the train station. We're staying at Jaegers, which is a fairly neat and clean hostel, but definitely my first "party hostel" that has a bar. I haven't been getting much sleep l...