A Sleepover in München. 🇩🇪

Here we are in Munich. We arrived at the airport to learn the plane was delayed 30 minutes. Our notification of the change came after we had arrived. Then after we were on board we waited over 20 minutes before we backed out of the gate. However there was a silver lining to all of this as by waiting 30 minutes we were able to check in and offload our suitcases for tomorrow's flight. (Lufthansa allows you to do that 23 hours before your flight time).

With the delays it seems we took all day to take a short flight but we got here in the end. After booking into our hotel we took a walk into part of the old town. We are only a kilometre from the Marienplatz so quite central. We have been to Munich a couple of times before but still wanted to have a bit of a wander about. There are beautiful buildings here, it's a really pretty city.

We were surprised by the very large number of groups of men, both young and middle aged. There were families, and no doubt tourists like us, but heaps of males many not speaking German. Most seemed to be of a middle eastern origin. We assume it's because with the refugee crisis Germany opened their borders to all who wanted to come.

The light was fading as I took most of the photos. The day was not a sunny one in the first place apparently. We left sunny 30ish weather in Budapest to be greeted with a cool 19C and cloudy. The rain has stopped though. Tomorrow should be beautiful with a top of 24C.

The first collage - photos taken on the plane. These really cute and delicious 'soccer ball' chocolates were handed out to passengers. (A Macadamia nut cream filling covered in white chocolate, decorated with dark chocolate - yum!). It was a Lufthansa flight and the Euro2024 championships are being hosted here in Germany. It's the semi-finals this week.

The final lot of photos were taken from the airport bus as we approached the city. The airport is about 37km out of town.Read more