onto München

The bed was very comfortable, or maybe I was that tired after 1 day of my journey! Nonetheless after a good sleep, shower, and continental french breakfast I went back to the train station (walking this time...it was just a couple of blocks) to go to Keil, Germany! I had an open ticket, so fortunately there was one leaving in a few minutes. A short and pretty ride across the border (with NO customs) I arrived in Germany.
It had a different feel, eveing from neighboring Strausbourg. I can't explain it. In keil the buildings were mcuh more modern, though still over 75 years old I'm sure. After taking to the ticket office (thank God in English) my train was in about an hour...but I decided to go to München (Munich) instead of directly to Füssen so I knew I would have an easy time with trains. A few changing of trains (karlsrule and stuttgart) and it was no problem. The country side was BEAUTIFUL! Keil is at the foothills of the mountains. They looked like the Appalachians, but with a German twist. Many of them had vineyards going straight up, but on the ICE train going so fast I couldn't snap a picture. I even saw a castle on top of a mountain (in ruins) but I just got a tree in my picture. :( After a few hours I saw (what a thought was) my stop: Passing-München. After walking around the area for 5 hours, trying to find where I was on my map of München I was finally able to intrepret a sign in German that said this was the FAR west side of München. Very aggrivated and very tired and sore by now for walking for 5 hours worth of miles with a 50 lb bag on my back, I ate some McDonalds and got back on the damn DB train to the next stop = the REAL München. That's all I have to say about that, except I did see a Confederate flag flying there. odd. People gave me weird looks walking around the middle-of-nowhere Germany with a bag on my back. Anyway after getting to München at nearly 7:30pm I started waking to find the hostel I found online. It looked to be pretty far (and it was starting to get dusk). I walked just a few blocks and saw a ** Hotel/Hostel. Excellent! 18 euro and 3 euro for bed sheets is not a bad deal for the night. Glean bed, fairly clean bathroom and shower, contental breakfast, and close--yet 14 ppl to a room, ok so this is real hostel living.
So with only a few hours of daylight I attempted to see München--all of it. Which I was fairly sucessful ! Of course I couldn't go into the cathedrals, but it was pretty on the outside. I saw all the sights lit up by the lights, Where Hitler started froming his plans, the big building with teh awesome clock where figures dance around (which was under reconstruction, just like the rest of Europe this summer. I couldn't find the hofbrauhaus, even though I'm pretty sure it was right under my nose. Oh, well Seeing a lot in a few hours, now it was time to sleep.