Before we left for Munich from Prague we made sure we were getting on a train with no air conditioning, a track that was under construction so that we would have to switch to a bus for one leg of the trip, and connections that made us use three hot trains total in addition to the bus. Thankfully we got exactly what we wanted.
The first night in Munich we just chilled out and watched the Spain quarterfinal game, but instead of chilling out we slept in a basement with 80 people at 80 degrees. Luckily we got up for all you can eat breakfast which consisted of a plate of 10 loaves of bread and a toaster. But then Munich actually turned awesome.
We went to a train stop that had the Olympic village from when Munich hosted in 1972 and the BMW headquarters building (museum, corporate hq, plant, welt). The BMW Welt was a whale shaped building that was ridiculously awesome if you are into sweet cars. There were driving similations, headphones to listen to engines, a sweet F1 car, and the building looked extremely futuristic and massive. It was neat.
We made it back in time to do a pub crawl with a great group of about 25 people. It was awesome, and one of the stops was the HofBrauHaus, said to be the worlds most famous beer hall (google it). On our tour the next day we learned that the Hofbrauhaus used to have gutters running through it so that males could go to the bathroom without getting up and losing their seat (even though the place is huge, like auditorium size). Now, there are no gutters and girls are allowed, but in the guys bathroom there is a large bin in which to vomit (there is not one in the girls bathroom). Seriously, a bin dedicated to people throwing up. There we had one-liter mugs of beer (standard in most halls or beer gardens in Munich) and I stole some amazing brat and kraut off of a couples plate who ending up joining our crawl. And... absolutely nothing else eventful happened.*
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