texan1510 / Emily

I encountered my first language difficulty here. We stopped on our way from Munich to Brunnenburg for lunch. I was starving and hadn’t slept for over twenty-four hours. All of our group sort of stumbled into this place half asleep.

We wandered around without really knowing how to get any food. I finally resorted to pointing to some pasta. The woman scooped it out and when I was trying to tell her that was enough, she dumped it all in a big bucket. I thought she was getting rid of it and panicked a bit, until she picked up the ice the pasta had been sitting in. She was boiling it to heat it. Silly me. She put some kind of sauce on it which was quite good. The receipt tells me it was pasta mit eierschwammerl, which appears to be a squiggly kind of mushroom.

The food was good, and I bought a piece of pretzel bread and a bottle of water for the road before I left.

I went here today to swim. €10,50 for two hours. Oh, my it was lovely. Lots of different pools, all different temperatures. Lots of hot tubs and bubbles and waterfalls.

These were two very cool interactive pieces of art. The first was a panorama of Antarctica that you could walk inside and sit down in. I swear it was colder in there than it was in the rest of the museum! I had a chat with the museum guide and we couldn’t decide if it was psychological or a result of the air vents being relatively close to it.

The second was a room full of fake snow that you could actually walk around in, provided you took your shoes off first. It was dangerously slippery but a fun experience.