The overnight flight landed us in Amsterdam at 9:00 local time. Our flight landed and the plane played an informational video about how to navigate the Amsterdam airport and get to downtown Amsterdam on the train, incredibly helpful. Once we got downtown we had no clue how to work the train station but knew we needed to get to Munich to meet our friends for Oktoberfest. Our original plan was to stay in Amsterdam and then go to Copenhagen. We changed our minds once my friend convinced me to meet her and her travel group in Munich for the last weekend of Oktoberfest, again a reason itineraries aren’t the move.

It turns out one ticket from Amsterdam to Munich was 273 Euro so we looked at each other and said no chance and decided to buy a 10 ride eurail pass to last our 6 week trip. That put us back about 500 euro, worth it! We reserved seats for a train to Munich (another 10 euro) two hours from then and decided to explore Amsterdam and grab some food before our train left. Loved it right away! The canals and house boats, the alleys with all the shops, the diversity, the BIKES. I don’t like smoking weed, but in Amsterdam I felt it was only right to take a puff or two at the coffee shop, so I did. Unfortunately, that was also my first time with wifi since Vancouver and the girls we were meeting up with weren’t gonna make it until the next day instead of that day like originally planned, but Nate and I reserved our tickets to Munich already. Amsterdam came to a quick end as our traveling had not ended, and a 9 hour train ride to Munich was up next.

I slept like a baby on the train. I’ve never been on a train before other than the link rail in Seattle but there’s just something about the gracefulness of the speed and every little turn the train makes that just makes you comfortable and knocks you out. Not to mention, my lack of sleep from the two flights we just got off. Nate was worried our bags might get taken, a legit concern when traveling by train in Europe so he couldn’t sleep. When we transferred trains we both had our own seats and used our backpacks as pillows and slept well until the train got too crowded and people needed those seats. Eventually we made it to Munich. We got off the train at about 20:00 and the city was alive; we weren’t. We walked around looking for a hostel or a hotel and didn’t make it far before we found a restaurant, grabbed a beer, logged on to the wifi and ended up deciding to get a hotel for the night so we could sleep somewhere quiet. It wasn’t the best hotel I’ve ever stayed in, actually, it was the worst. But that’s okay, it was clean enough. We needed sleep since our friends weren’t gonna be there until the next day with a place for us to stay. We just knocked out from 22:30 until 8:00 and were starving so we showered, turned in our room key, and left.