"Eating All You Can"

-the sign at the Chinese All-You-Can-Eat Buffet we stopped at after
the ice caves. We like the translation.

Auf Wiedersehen Germany & Austria!

We're currently hanging out in Munich Terminal 1 awaiting our flight
for a 27 hour layover in London - pretty sweet, in the genuine sense!

Yesterday (Tues) we actually awoke to the sound of music in
Salzburg ... the ringing of church bells at 7am, but it was NOT one
of our favorite things. There was a slight drizzle all morning, but
it didn't stop us from walking around, doing some shopping, and
eating the best spinach/tomato ciabatta bread stick in the world from
one of the street markets. And once we found out that Riedel crystal
was an Austrian/German company, we had to stop at the Salzburg Riedel
store/cafe for a couple glasses of white white and a chicken salad.

You want to know what's really good in Europe? McDonald's coffee.
Yup, that's right the McClassic Cappuccino for just 1 McEuro at the
McCafe was excellent! It's far from the cup of thin, and extremely
hot, coffee that you would get at a McDonald's in the States. On our
drive back to Munich I (Rosa) really wanted a great cup of coffee,
but alas, all the McDonald's were on the South side of the Autobahn
and there was no way to get over. Now I'll have to find out how the
McDonald's coffee is in London.

Our last night in Munich was a lot of fun with some traditional
German food and a couple of gi-normous beers. We went to the
Hofbrauhaus, the largest beer hall in Munich, where we each ordered
the only size beers available: 1 liter. Check out the picture - Mike
is drinking a pilsner, Rosa is drinking a radler (a pilsner mixed
with lemonade ... so good!). We had a plate of spatzle, a variety of
schintzels (of course, Rosa passed on the sausage) and shared our
last gigantic pretzel. After the walk back to the hotel we decided to
check out one more place and have another drink - although I'm not
sure how I did it. It was probably the walk across the city that made
room for anything in our full bellies. Our last stop in Munich was at
the Cafe Am Beethovenplatz, a hip cafe/restaurant/bar with a great
mix of clientele: students, couples of all ages, groups of
girlfriends sharing desserts, folks reading books and a woman playing
a grand piano for all of us. It's definitely a place we'd go back to.

..... 7 hours later we are finally posting this after a rainy
afternoon in London. Our internet connection is very slow, so the
pics will be posted tomorrow. We wish we were back in Munich - London
is not worth the pounds!