München

Got up around 8:30 AM today. For breakfast I did a croissant and OJ again from the cafe next store.

Around 10 AM I hopped on the light rail into the city centre. My first stop was the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism:

It looks at Germany's history of fascism and the Nazis. There are four floors, with the exhibits starting on the top floor. It begins with WWI and shows how the seeds of fascism were planted back then. I can't believe it was only €5.

Around 12:30 PM I walked to the München Hauptbahnhof (Munich's main train station) and picked up an Oriental vegan wrap and a Lipton lemon iced tea.

Then I hopped on a light rail for a bookstore, the Munich Readery. On my way there I saw this storefront (not sure what they're selling but it caught my eye):

Unfortunately, the Munich Readerly only sells English books. Doh!

After walking past there, I took this picture to illustrate how the bike lanes are set up in Germany (I babbled about it yesterday):

I walked to the Pinakothek der Moderne:

It's a modern art museum. Some interesting stuff in there, including this:

Those little things on the wall are smaller versions of the car, pointing in the 10 o'clock direction.

I then took a light rail to an Oxfam bookstore. They sell German books, but unfortunately it's all new. The book I'm looking for, Robert B. Parker's Hundert Dollar Baby came out years ago, so I'm probably better off finding it at a used bookstore. (I have the English version of it; I want the German edition to help my learn Deutsch. If I can't find it in Berlin, I'll buy it online.)

I took the train back to my hotel. Got in around 4:45 PM. I walked to that Greek restaurant, which is about a block away from the Italian restaurant. They didn't have an Englisch menu, so I got one of the three gyro offerings. The menu mentioned a pita, so I assumed it would wrapped up. Wrong. The pita was on the bottom, covered by tomatoes, onions, meat, and a scoop of white sauce; off to the side was some rice in red sauce -- tomato sauce? There was no way to wrap everything in the pita and eat it, so I cut everything, including the pita, with my fork and knife. It was a lot of food, but I ate it all. I finished it off with a cup of grün tea.

Afterwards I hung out the hotel. Around 7:40 PM I ran next door to the supermarket because they close at 20:00 for Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream. Ever have it? It is awesome!