Munchen: Munich: Munich

After a full day of "touristing"...this is a new verb I created just now...we finally arrived in Munich, on Schwarzmannstrasse...at the apartment owned by Kraft Food Corp, of all things, where Rachel Green, one of my close friends from High School, is living for her internship. She invited us in, gave up her bed, and fed us cookies...how much better can it get?!

We did have a 3 hour dinner at a restaurant near Marienplatz, the main square in Munich...things in Europe are just a little bit slower where I've lived most of my life...but I think I'm starting to enjoy it.

Tomorrow we're meeting up with a co-worker of one of Mike's contacts who, "owed him a favor." He will be taking us on a tour of the city and bringing us to some pretty important government spaces...Mike is basically like God, I think.

PS-I've missed Rachel!

Dachau...:Dachau...:Dachau...

So this is Dachau...

"...shows the historical background to the Third Reich. The preceding history does not necessarily mean that everything that followed had to happen the way it did, or that it could not have turned out differently. But the seeds of antisemitism, racism, and disregard of human dignity and democracy had been sewn during the preceding period, and gained ground after 1933 with alarming speed.

Each of us today is shaping the background history of tomorrow."

-Chaim Schatzker

"Work will make you free"

Rothersberg-Stadt eins: Rothersberg-Ciudad uno: Rothersberg-City One

Woke up, said goodbye to Mike and Matthew and headed south. At Mike's suggestion we hit up Rothersberg, which is considered "typically German," and one of few, if not the only remaining walled cities.

We walked along the guard's path on the interior of the wall around the city.

...Bob would have been a giant...

Contrast

The construction of the walls was crazy. It looked like the structural columns and beams were a mold and the puddy for the wall was squeezed into it, much the way those play-doh games work.

Two roads diverged in a German City...

There's something enchanting about bridges...

Old cities set up a perfect display of layers without introducing an excess of heights and forms.

Time to get on the road to Dachau, then Munich for the rest of the trip!