Munich Day One and der Hodensack

So far so good in Munich. I tried to upload pictures to Flickr but the combination of no outgoing email and a poorly designed Flickr app means I could only upload thumbnails. Better than nothing I guess. It was cool here today, probably a high of -1 or so(?). The wind made toques and gloves necessary for all the walking around. We walked into the centre of town (~15 minutes or so) and did a sort of self guided walking tour of all the sights. We saw a couple of neat churches (they don't bother with small ones here!), went to the Munich museum, had a beer at the haufbrauhouse and did a little shopping. Munich is easy to walk around but if you like, the transit system seems to be very efficient. We are headed out for a light supper soon then bed. Not sure exactly what we'll get up to tomorrow, so much to see and so little time...

On the language front we're lucky most people speak English. We are both lost when it comes to German as some of the words are downright comical and invariably difficult to wrap our unseasoned tongues around. So far I know only 4 real German words. Bitte = please, Danke = thank you, nein = no and hodensack = scrotum. That last one doesn't fit I know. I'll blame it on Courtenay for lending us her English/German picture dictionary. It's a real useful book but rather than putting all the useful phrases and words up front, they start right in on human anatomy. Literally the first page I opened had the male human body and I laughed for a long time at the German word for scrotum, so I guess it stuck in my head. I'll have to try and venture past the human anatomy pages before our next venture outside so I have a chance at learning a word I can actually use.

I guess that's all for now.