This is the 15th of a
series of posts recalling my trip to Europe,
using e-mails sent at the time. Unlike
later trips, I didn’t e-mail people everyday.
Trip reports are largely as I wrote them at the time with two
exceptions: 1. I was usually pretty rushed due to Internet fees in Europe, so I’ve cleaned up my e-mails to make them more
coherent, which wasn’t a priority at the time.
Also, in some blog posts I’ll add additional thoughts with the hindsight
of nine years later or to add further clarification. I’ll use “NOW” in such cases.
This 15th
report covered my excursion to Legoland from Munich/
Well,
I added an extra day in Munich and went to Legoland,
a twofold motivation: I want to see Munich
on a nice day, so this buys me and extra day.
Also,
my Visa situation proved to be more complicated than expected: The switchover
can take a week or two to occur. Right
now my chequing account will cover rent and phone bill but nothing else, and if
push comes to shove I can transfer money from savings to chequing, but I’d
rather not as there’s only $200 left in that.
All
this wouldn’t be such an immediate problem if not for the fact that my next
course takes me to Switzerland
and Liechtenstein,
which still use the Swiss Franc. This
means that while I still have a fair bit of cash on hand, it’s not too useful
where I’m going. So I’m buying time.
Now,
Legoland: overrated. It’s smaller than most theme parks, and
there’s no A-material ride in the bunch.
There is an impressive miniature Lego cities area which if it were
possible to see separately at a reduced cost would be worth it. But not Legoland as a whole, unless you’re a
completist who absolutely must try everything Lego cranks out.
And
avoid the car ride at all costs. I kept crashing
into walls and getting stuck, and banged my leg up pretty good.
[NOW:
This was at the time the newest Legoland; in fact it opened after my trip had
started. It’s located in Günzburg. Definitely I unnerved people by
limping out of the car after the ride described above. The Lego cities really are beautiful, with
not to scale replicas of actual cities, at least key areas in them. Some moving parts. It was interesting seeing
Lego Venice so soon after seeing the real Venice.]
On
the way home a teenage girl pulled down a male friend’s pants on the
train. Perhaps some mysteries are best
left unanswered.
All
the best. I've been fighting depression
for a while now so really looking forward to being home in two weeks.
[NOW:
Obviously no longer depressed over a trip from that long ago.]
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